Quebec Culture Research Paper

On the world stage, Canada has always been known to demonstrate its rich multiculturalism. Canada often serves as an example to the rest of the world what safety, equality, and citizen happiness look like while maintaining the multiculturalism that many governments fear to implicate into their own countries. One prominent and extremely proud source of culture in Canada is the province of Quebec. Quebec is a province that is more than often full of wandering tourists and is well known for its French speaking population when the rest of Canada is primarily full of English speakers. When one crosses into Quebec from any surrounding provinces, street signs immediately switch to French. In the rest of Canada however, everything is written in both …show more content…
Unique from the last referendum called at 50.58% to 49.42%, it is estimated that as much as 80% of the population of Quebec would agree to separate if another referendum were called today. Quebec longs for its own independence from Canada, and to give them that without risks of damaging any government bodies, Prime Minister Jean Chretien granted Quebec “3 things: 1. acknowledgement that Quebec is a distinct society, 2. creation of a veto against constitutional change, usable by ever region including Quebec, and 3. Quebec control over worker retraining.” By proposing these policies, Canada gave Quebec a bit of the independence it desires. However, even in 2017, Quebec is still partial and open to the idea of becoming an independent nation from the rest of …show more content…
Unfortunately, Quebec declaring their independence is much, much more delicate than a sports game. If a separation was implemented, one of the first issues to settle between the Quebecois and Canadian government would be Quebec’s participation regarding NORAD and NATO. In a study, Professor Joseph T. Jockel argues that if Quebec went through with a separation from Canada, it is more than likely that the ruling government of Quebec would leave defence matters in Canada’s hands. Quebec’s priorities have proved to lie in the realms of economy and culture rather than offensive and defensive matters. If Quebec cannot handle their own military, the province should not have the responsibility of claiming itself to be an independent nation when Canada is babysitting over its shoulders. However, if one considered that Quebec did have its own armed forces, bringing Quebec into NATO would need to be discussed among the current members. Dealing with this kind of situation can quickly become argue-prone and possibly hostile between countries if there is a