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Now now... You'd just be pandering to the separatists.

I think now a days most of those are in Calgary if we're being honest... they want an "independent western canada" which some how manages to ignore that British Columbia even exists.

Sad no one remembers that Newfoundland was the most recently sovereign polity.

No kidding, why is that guy trying to split Quebec from Canada? :(

Isn’t it… already the case? Culturally speaking, it looks and feel like a separate state. At least that’s the impression I got.

Oh yeah definitely, I was half-kidding. Quebec and the rest of Canada have a lot of very significant differences. We are probably more divided right now than we've been ever since the last referendum.

An example I love to give is the holiday "Victoria day" in Canada which is called "Patriot's day" in Quebec, celebrating the attempted revolution in Quebec that were brutally put down by the English in 1837-1838.

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