The ethnocentric tom-toms

All that has been said in the preceding didn't just happen yesterday, or just since the infamous October 30, 1995 referendum. The targeted linguistic racism developed since the so-called quiet revolution when then Quebec premier, the late Jean Lesage extolled the virtues of Quebec sait faire (Quebec knows how) and maitre chez nous (masters in our own house). The ethnocentric tom-toms were beating loudly back then, but the English speaking community didn't hear them, or more likely chose not to. We didn't hear them perhaps due to our arrogance, our self-confidence or our trust in the system. But we should have heard them . . . the message was loud and clear.

Because we didn't hear the message forty years ago doesn't mean that we should not be listening to it today. It is not too late. Long overdo for certain. But not too late. The message is clear. Québécois nationalist want a white - French society. They want Quebec to reflect who they see when they look in the mirror. Nothing less. They want to be masters in their own home with the rest of us contributing as guests. They want to have close economic ties to the rest of Canada and unrestricted trade access to North America and the Francophonie. They want as many tax dollars from the minority communities without showing the same contributing communities respect for their contributions. And they want guarantees from Ottawa in the likes of grants and equalization payments, while they create and ethnocentric state on the shoulders of Canada. But all of these things were already obvious to many within the minority communities prior to the referendum, and for quite a few years before that. So what happened?

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