Word: quebecoise
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For three centuries, the Quebecois -- descendants of France's attempt to plant a North American colony -- maintained a society that was rural, Roman Catholic and inward-looking. But in the 1960s, as Quebecois moved into business and the professions, Quebecois separatists raised their sights. They now control two parties of...
In 1987 Prime Minister Brian Mulroney offered a constitutional-reform package known as the Meech Lake Accord. For Quebec its guarantees of a "distinct society" were a bare minimum, but for many in English Canada they went too far. When Meech Lake was not adopted, Quebec scheduled a referendum on...
But in these windows and doorways hang T-shirts, most of them sporting self-deprecating slogans about Canada's relationship with the United States. Others are marked with a grinning frog--the mascot, a la Mickey Mouse, that symbolizes the Quebecois secession movement.
Anyone who watches Olympic hockey in the hope of getting his jingoistic juices flowing is bound to be disappointed this year. The new order is cosmopolitan. The American goalie Ray LeBlanc has blossomed in part because of advice from former Soviet star Vladislav Tretiak, who coaches goalies for the Chicago...
There's only the minor problem--that we're beginning to look less like Sweden and more like a well-mannered Yugoslavia with excellent beer. It's not just the restless Quebecois, but also the West, the Maritimes, and even the Newfies (but of more ethnic/regional jokes than there are...