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English Only. Under the British North America Act of 1867, French Canada, meaning the huge eastern province of Quebec, retained its own language, Catholic religion and cultural identity on an equal basis with the English. Quebec is still overwhelmingly French. The rub is over the word equal...
...nothing more than lip service to the idea of biculturalism. French is a foreign language in two-thirds of the country; road signs and transportation schedules are in English only; the federal government in Ottawa operates mainly in English. English Canadians hold the best civil service jobs. In Quebec itself, English-speaking outsiders control the major corporations. For a long time, noted the commission, "French-speaking Quebec acted as though it had accepted the idea of merely being a privileged 'ethnic minority.' Today, the kind of opinion we met so often in the province regards Quebec practically...
Early this year, the Black Liberation Front, a hot-eyed batch of pro-Castro New York Negroes, got in touch with some Quebec separatists, an equally odd outfit fanatically dedicated to Quebec's secession from Canada. The Black Liberation boys wanted some dynamite; the Canadians were willing to provide it. From their agreement sprang one of the most convoluted conspiracies since Guy Fawkes schemed in 1605 to blow up the English Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder...
...Montreal, Michelle Duclos loaded the trunk of her white 1961 Rambler with a brown cardboard box full of dynamite -each stick wrapped in pages of a French-language newspaper. The New Yorkers almost certainly could have purchased or stolen their dynamite closer to home, but getting it from Quebec terrorists added to the internationalism...
...Liberals. Despite his obvious desire to return to office, Diefenbaker has failed to find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack of a serious challenger. Conservatives in the industrialized eastern provinces would much...