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Week 6

Week 6. The Quebec Question, A Canadian Quandary. rescheduling. Feb 13 – Quebec: Nationalism and Ethnicity ( ch 8) Feb 20 - reading week Feb 27 - Racialized Inequality ( ch 5) Mar 6 - NO CLASS March 13 – Gendered Inequality ( ch 6) etc. Two themes.

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Week 6

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  1. Week 6 The Quebec Question, A Canadian Quandary

  2. rescheduling • Feb 13 – Quebec: Nationalism and Ethnicity (ch 8) • Feb 20 - reading week • Feb 27 - Racialized Inequality (ch 5) • Mar 6 - NO CLASS • March 13 – Gendered Inequality (ch 6) • etc

  3. Two themes • Tension between Quebec and ROC. • Scorpions in a bottle/two solitudes (from hostility to blame {fearful symmetry}) [Quebec matters] • Voluntary vs Involuntary frameworks • conflicting views of Quebec’s place in Canada/NA • Competing nationalisms • Language conflicts • Outdated federalism

  4. Tensions between Q and Newcomers • Reasonable accommodation debates with respect to ethnoreligiosity in a secular Q. • Kirpan controversies • Niqab controversy • Surveys Why? - Quebec as Maj/Min – unique insecurities

  5. Understanding Quebec (or understanding English Canada’s misunderstandings)

  6. MAJOR ETHNICITIES

  7. ETHNICITY AS ACTIVITY • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS • IDENTITY POLITICS - a social movement based on the historically wronged who reclaim devalued identities as basis for recognition and entitlement - feminism, black power, aboriginality, quebecois

  8. B) NATIONALISM • Political expression of a peoples (nation) • Who claim commonalities/destiny/homeland • To govern themselves up to and including independence * Distinctions based on who can join and on what grounds

  9. What does Quebec Want?

  10. Sovereignty Parti Quebecois, /Pauline Marois – (feb 9, 2013) • Canada poses a risk to Quebec’s language, social values, and freedom to speak on Intl stage • Costly overlapping services, opposing views with ottawa such as gun control, and ottawa disregard of quebec’s unemployed and economic needs • Support for Sov = 37% (feb5, Le devoir/Gazette) (43% • Ottawa creating dependency because of $7 billion in equalization payments as have not province • Claims of ‘ethnicide’

  11. P 240- Quebec’s Identity 2001 (Feb+Oct) and 2005 • Solely a Quebecer 24 15 19 • A Quebecer first, then a Canadian 25 32 43 • Both a Quebecer and a Canadian 26 32 21 • A Canadian first, then a Quebecer 15 13 11 • Solely a Canadian 8 7 5 • Fe

  12. P 241- Quebecs identity based on language background • Solely a Quebecer 24 15 19 • A Quebecer first, then a Canadian 25 32 43 • Both a Quebecer and a Canadian 26 32 21 • A Canadian first, then a Quebecer 15 13 11 • Solely a Canadian 8 7 5 Francophone Anglophone Allophone

  13. What is English speaking Canada willing to concede? • Official bilingualism • Clarity Act • Quebec = a nation within a united Canada (Harper, 2006) • Unofficial asymmetrical federalism

  14. Official bilingualism as Reasonable Accommodation • Context – the quiet revolution • Purpose – depoliticize Fr-Eng nationalism • Terms • Success - provincial - Quebec

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