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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by gpm on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:27AM (#21498625)
Most places were conquered by military force, multiple times for that matter, that's not what makes Quebec unique or a terribly interesting piece of history.

In fact, as places that explicitly chose to be part of a country, Quebec ranks pretty highly, since they've had multiple referendum's about leaving Canada.

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by seszett on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:34AM (#21498662)
What was the referendum result though? 49.4% for statu quo vs. 50.6% for independence? That's not really what I'd call a plebiscite for being part of Canada.
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by gpm on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:39AM (#21498695)
Something like that... and since the referendums happened when Quebec was most inclined to separate (in recent memory) that's really a good sign that > 50% of Quebec would prefer not to.
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by emilfihlman on Sunday November 10, 2019 @11:59AM (#21498812)
Are you really thinking that half the province against each other is a good sign?

Please.

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by gpm on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:22PM (#21498964)
Like I said, support for that movement is way less than half now, the first result I found from a quick search [0] suggests 18% as of 2015.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-angus-reid-ca...

I think a majority vote choosing to stay is a hell of a lot better than "forced to stay by the military"... which is what you'd get from the post I originally replied to. And it's not "against eachother" so much as "politely thinking that we'd be better of splitting the country in two" for most of them.

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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by thinkloop on Sunday November 10, 2019 @12:22PM (#21498959)
It's much less than half now, that was at the ultimate peak - was the point he was making.
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Re:For Quebec, a French Woman May Not Be French Enough by emilfihlman on Monday November 11, 2019 @02:29PM (#21508015)
I misread the contextual OP, he wasn't supporting the francophones.
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