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The Root Cause Of Quebec Separatism

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The root causes of Quebec separatism can go back hundreds of year, this is because the french and English speaking people fought over the new world, New France. New France, (now Canada) embodied French civilization in the western world, but as time passed the 15 min war also known as the Plains of Abraham had broken New France into Quebec and Canada creating the French colony to live inside the English Colony. As a minority in British North America and in the Dominion of Canada, Quebecers more exactly French Roman Catholic Quebecers made cultural and linguistic survival their prime objective. One popular device at the time to ensure survival has been a dualist interpretation of Canada’s 1867 Confederation, which Henri Bourassa described a

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