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...longer. In Canada these days, an eye-rolling love affair is blossoming between Quebec and the France of Charles de Gaulle's politique de grandeur. French Renaults, Peugeots and Citroëns fill the Montreal streets; French wines, Vichy water and apéritifs are all the rage. Air France and Trans-Canada Air Lines enjoy a booming tourist trade: TCA ran 600 charters to Europe this year...
Ever since France ceded Canada to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763, the French-speaking province of Quebec has felt itself unhappily isolated. Québecois complain that they are treated as second-class citizens by the English-speaking Canadians. As for Frenchmen, when they noticed Quebec at all, they tended to regard it as a chilly place populated by peasants who spoke an unforgivable French...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with...
...general elections, and the two splinter parties gained enough strength to inaugurate a siege of minority government. Last week Ottawa got a fifth political party when one of the splinters splintered. Le Ralliement des Creditistes the new party was christened, and its founding father was Real Caouette, the firebrand Quebec Chrysler dealer who has been the leader of the French-Canadian branch of the prairie-based, funny-money Social Credit Party. In last April's national elections, Caouette and his fellow French-Canadians in Quebec won 20 of Social Credit's 24 seats...
With so mucn party strength in Quebec, Caouette never could reconcile himself to the fact that the nominal leader of the party remained English-speaking Robert Thompson from English-speaking Alberta. Caouette broke from Thompson, set up his own "national party to protect French-Canadians in every province." But though the 5.5 million French-Canadians are increasingly militant in their demands for more attention, not too many are apt to follow the demagogic Caouette. In fact, Caouette failed to convince even his own Quebec M.P.s: nearly half of them announced they were sticking with Thompson...