TIMELINE – A new social model culminates in migration hubris, as if Canada wanted to welcome the whole world into its borders. This policy would turn Quebecers into a veritable demographic drowner.
Canada presents itself to the world as the laboratory of a new world that replaces the American dream and concretely embodies the diverse utopia in the name of which we want to rebuild democracy everywhere. But this Canada-Potemkin badly hides the true nature of today’s Canada. And the commemoration this Sunday of the fortieth anniversary of the 1982 Constitution should allow those who wish to become aware by going back to their origins.
For that we have to go back to Quebec in the 1960s, this era known as the “Silent Revolution” was a time of national emancipation for Quebecers who had been under the yoke of British colonizers for two centuries in their own country. . It was about redefining their political framework: for some, independence quickly became the goal. The others instead wanted to reform the Canadian federation and give Quebec a special status that would allow it autonomy…
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