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Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low by jajko on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:44PM (#39841489)
For a remote outsider - is the divide between quebec and rest of canada not just a language one?
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Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low by KineticLensman on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:36PM (#39842174)
(Brit here) While working on a contract in Ottowa, I asked about Quebec which was just next door. My hosts explained that Canada and Quebec is like Britain would be if you put Scotland in the middle between Southern and Northern England.
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Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low by cmyr on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @01:03PM (#39841711)
It is significantly more than that. One major example: quebec has a separate legal system for civil matters, based on french civil law. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law)
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Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low by ddkto on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:52PM (#39841575)
The short answer is no, it is much more than that!

The long answer involves several hundreds of years of history…

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Re:Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low by bregma on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:22PM (#39854682)
Their traffic lights are sideways and have different shapes as well as colours too.
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