La fête nationale du Québec

[jawnbc]

Aujourd’hui (le 24 juin) c’est la fête nationale du Québec--et aussi en Terre-Neuve. Le Québec est le coeur du culture francophone canadien.

Vive le Québec! Vive le Canada! J’ai partie d’eux! On est cana’ien et on en suis fier!

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[danbearnyc.livejournal.com]

Jean Baptiste? Quebeckers ain't the only one to claim the day. There's a wonderfully pagan festival for him in Oporto, Portugal too. People get fabulously piss drunk on port and vinho verde, splash each other with water pistols and hit one another over the head with leeks!

Damn, them Celts are everywhere!

[feygele.livejournal.com]

On est cana’ien et on en suis fier!

*cough*

If you were living here, you wouldn't be saying that (loudly) near any of the festivities today, unless you wanted a beat-down.

Seriously, I'm considering staying home all day, until I leave for synagogue.

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

Ditto. Well, minus the synagogue part. I can't stand this "nationalist" BS. Montreal would be the best place ever if it wasn't in Quebec...

[feygele.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, I think we differ in our opinion of Montreal. Separatist/nationalism/language wars aside, I find this city to be highly segmented. Perhaps it's risidual from when the burroughs were their own cities, and people could/would live, work and play all in their own neighbourhood, but I think it's more than that... Different ethnic groups tend to stick together, neighbourhoods stick together, different groups in different neighbourhoods stick together... And then there's the whole "I'm too cool/good for you" attitutde that many native Montrealers have. It drives me crazy.

I just have to keep reminding myself that I'm only here for another two years...

[siobhan63.livejournal.com]

I find this city to be highly segmented. Perhaps it's risidual from when the burroughs were their own cities,

Heh... a couple of years ago, i wrote about this on a forum. People didn't understand. I moved here from Toronto back in 1989 and yeah, it's always struck me how neighbourhood-oriented people are -- and i'm no different. I live in the Plateau, i work downtown, but i rarely go downtown other than for work, and i don't know anything about any other areas of the city. I sort of know where they are (NDG, Lachine, etc.) but i have no reason to go there at all. I have no reason to venture more than a 4-5 block radius from where i live since i can find everything i need and then some. I actually like this, compared to how things were in Toronto.

[jawnbc]

The reality is, all Canadian queers are living off the backs of Québec nationalism. Almost every single step of the path towards equality for us in Canada was instigated or came to fruition because of the strong influence the PQ on the social union, within Québec and ultimately Canada-wide. Trudeau, Chrétien and most other Québec federalist politicians are also a product of that milieu. We owe the Quiet Revolution more than a little thanks.

Most anglo Canadians aren't aware or won't acknowledge this. And right now it's the Bloc who've forced the Liberals to commit in writing to calling a vote on equal marriage before the summer recess.

That's why I celebrate la fête. I'm grateful that those who wish to break up Canada have, in fact, made this country's social union among the most progressive in the world.

Now the taxation in Québec is fooked, especially in light of the services proferred. But I'd live there in a heartbeat, given a good job for me and the husband. Though I'd still end up in Vancouver no doubt. I like my laidback life.