Really!? I never knew that. Why does Quebec want to separate?
OH OH OH! I love telling this story xD
Well a long time ago, when the area that is now Canada was colonized. Both the French and English came here, blah blah blah they fight and the English win.
But the English keep the French around, the plan was to assimilate them by forcing English everything on them and bringing as many English over as possible to make the English have a greater population.
Years later, Quebec whines about loss of culture, lack of power in the Canadian government, they dislike the power of the federal government, because they see it as English.
There has always been tension between English-Canadians and French-Canadians. So much so that Quebec has a political party solely for seperation from Canada. Although they only run in Quebec (don't ask) so they can't mathematically win a federal election =P
ANYWAYS, Quebec has had 2 referendums to decide if they were going to seperate. Both resulted in a no, although one was by a mere .5% of the population.
They even spawned the FLQ, a French-Canadian terrorist group which kidnapped foreign diplomats and bombed English businesses.
Interesting Fact, at that time Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (he was French, but was not a seperatist) enacted the War Measures Act, even though Canada was not at war. This act, allows police to arrest anyone without reason and hold them without charges for any length of time.
A little while ago there was worry about a resurgence of the FLQ, but that died down thank goodness =P
That's a very brief history, and more than likely English-Canadian biased.
