Ask a Canadian: Vive le Québec
February 18th, 2008 by Chris
Many years ago, my family took a trip to Quebec as a part of our summer vacation. It was a long time ago, but I can still pretty clearly remember much of it, such as dad’s excitement to take us to see Montreal’s infamous white elephant stadium The Big O.
The part that stands out the most though, and has now gone down in Routly family lore, is my sister Melodie’s oblivious conversation with a local souvenir vendor in Quebec City, wherein she actually claimed “We’re not from around here. We’re from Canada.”
Is it any wonder they want to separate?
Vote for Life of Ronnie!
February 19th, 2008 at 12:58 am
HAHAHAH that’s awesome!
February 19th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Eheheh!
I wouldn’t be surprised that this sort of thing happens often, too…
February 19th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Hey! I was really young!!!
February 19th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Nice Jay’s cap!
February 19th, 2008 at 7:32 am
My French is also terrible. Is she asking “Hello! What can I do for you?”
February 19th, 2008 at 7:33 am
That’s the Big O on his cap, but now that I look at it it does look like an old Jays logo too at that size.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Its werid being in vancouver it does feel like Quebec, is another country. I guess its like the English and the welsh!
February 19th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
It’s not really true that 49% voted in favor of separation - they voted YES to a vaguely worded question. A question that was represented to non-separatists as a vote to renegotiate Quebec’s position *within* Canada.
Two polls before the referendum and an exit poll after showed that even of those who voted YES, the majority did not want to separate from Canada.
Which is why we now have the Clarity Act. Any vote on separation must clearly be just that. Which in turn is why, despite promises by the separatist parties to immediatly hold another referendum, they never did.