Le Canada

[Brisco Bold]

Originally posted by StriderKyo
Haha...nobody from Quebec can talk trash about not being Canadian enough.

Oooh - got you there!

[sggg]

Originally posted by StriderKyo
Come on now, as if we'd leave the Big O lying around in the street like that down here.

It's no worse than Skydome... well, except for the fact that the roof does not work, it cost a billion dollars, and it's in the middle of nowhere.

The Big O is a lot cooler looking though!

Haha...nobody from Quebec can talk trash about not being Canadian enough.

I'm from New Jersey, shut up...

Seriously though, some people still want their own country but Québec and French culture is every bit as much a part of what Canada is as any other place in the country. It's heritage and history and culture = all Canadian. It's not Canada and Québec. Québec is Canada. I don't know why some people act as if French =/= Canadian. That's what so many French Canadians resent in the first place.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it - it's better to want to be your own thing than be more like the US.

[icepop]

Originally posted by StriderKyo
Haha...nobody from Quebec can talk trash about not being Canadian enough.

Strider, you had me up until here. You just lost some icepop points.

Apparently Canadian refers only to anglos now? That's not cool.

[Brisco Bold]

Québec is Canada. I don't know why some people act as if French =/= Canadian. That's what so many French Canadians resent in the first place.

He's right, y'know. No New France would have meant no Canada (meaning our unique history/struggle/identity). Respect yo roots! Read yo books!

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Right on Brisco. Icepop, give him some icepop points (I hear they're redeemable for maple syrup and pogs).

There would be no Canada without Lower Canada!

[icepop]

Brisco, you have earned icepop points. Right on! And they're not redeemable for pog!!!!

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What about me, don't I get any icepop points? I just owned a hoser from Toronto!

Speaking of which, I should forward this thread to Immigration Canada for "immigration points".

[Brisco Bold]

As I've said before (wait - I don't think I've ever said this...) but Canadian/French history is my fave.

[StriderKyo]

Originally posted by sggg
Seriously though, some people still want their own country but Québec and French culture is every bit as much a part of what Canada is as any other place in the country. It's heritage and history and culture = all Canadian. It's not Canada and Québec. Québec is Canada. I don't know why some people act as if French =/= Canadian. That's what so many French Canadians resent in the first place.

Anyway, no matter how you look at it - it's better to want to be your own thing than be more like the US.

It's really just the seperatist thing. Nobody I know doesn't think of Quebecers as being a big part of Canada and its history, it's just that for a long time a good many of them (49% in the last referendum!) didn't seem to want any part of us. The language laws, the disproportionate federal transfers, people there do seem to have spent alot of time telling the rest of us they don't like us much over the years. But absolutely nobody here (well, maybe a few random rednecks) wanted Quebec to leave. It's all just goofiness that goes back to the Plains of Abraham.

Originally posted by icepop
Strider, you had me up until here. You just lost some icepop points.

Apparently Canadian refers only to anglos now? That's not cool

Hey now, if he can make gross generalizations about Toronto, how come I can't rib him back? Really, everyone here is proud as heck to be Canadian (you should have seen 5 million people simultaneously go nuts in the streets when Team Canada won gold) - I don't know where you guys are getting this "Toronto wants to join the US" stuff. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mulroney was a Quebecer, don't forget

And honestly, nobody here has anything against the french at all - in Alberta, maybe, but no way here. I mean, nobody speaks english in this city (seriously, less than half the population speaks it in their homes, and even less as a first language) so the fact that some people just happen to speak french somewhere is so far from a big deal it's not even noticeable to us anymore.

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Originally posted by StriderKyo
you should have seen 5 million people simultaneously go nuts in the streets when Team Canada won gold

Hockey - the one thing that brings everyone together. Me and l'icepop went nuts on Ste-Catherine Street that night as well! It was wild... Good times.

Thank goodness Brodeur was in goal, eh? No Brodeur = no gold! Don't forget that my friend.