Some of you are proud that your such a multicultural country. But unlike the U.S. you try and keep these distinct cultures, and there is the problem. You can be multicultural and still have a unified country. Just require everyone to learn one common language
Hey, Ithink we can all see the benefit of a common language. The problem though comes in choosing one. Do the francophones learn English? Do the Anglophones learn French? Or do they all just learn a common second-language? And how fair is all this debate to the First Nations?
Again, we can all agree that a common language would be to our advantage. The trick is to agree to one.
have one common central goverment that can operate with its elected representatives without having to constantly having to get approval at the Provincial level.
I could agree with a central government with power to override provincial decisions as long as we have a decentralized system none-the-less, though I do think the federal government could be more involved in establishing certain educational principles, leaving the details to provincial governments.
what the elected officials are for) If Quebec secedes from Canada, it would get the land and could very well exist as its own entity probably with France as its closest ally.
I don't know if 'ally' is the right word. French-Quebecers and Frenchmen recognize a common linguistic culture, and that certainly helps (culturally, they're closer than Quebec is to the rest of Canada already). If you watch TV in Quebec's solidly francophone regions, you'll have French and Belgian channels. In Quebec City, it's easier to find copies of Paris Match and Le Monde Diplomatique than of Macleans or the Globe and Mail or the National Post; you'll see more foreign students from France, belgium, and French Africa in Quebec Universities than even English-Canadian compatriots; Quebec and French authors are read on either side of the Atlantic while English Canadians have never even heard of them (and likewise with English Canadian authors being more read in the US than in Quebec), and immigrants and refugees come from French Europe, Francohone Africa, and Haiti, etc. Even Quebec's international NGOs are more likely to interact with their French counterparts than with their English-Canadian counterparts.
I wouldn't say they'd just be 'allies', but rather 'brethren' with relations as close as we find between English-speaking countries, with regards to publications, culture, music, TV, immigration, international marriages, etc. It's much deeper than just 'allies'.
