Merlot...we no longer live in the same world we did two hundred or one hundred or even 25 years ago. Statements from the past no longer apply. Today we live in a connected world where immigrants can easily remain in contact with friends and family they left behind. These ties ensure that they don't lose their culture and they will never assimilate into the Quebecois culture. And the fact is that no matter how much they try, they will never be considered to be part of that culture by language and Quebecois hardliners. Recent comments support my point of view. You seem to love reading articles dealing with the past, here's something more recent for you to read...
http://nodogsoranglophones.blogspot.ca/
http://nodogsoranglophones.blogspot.ca/2011/01/quebec-ethnics-destroy-separatist-dream.html
EB, yes I believe that many of the current and past leaders of the separatist movement such as Pauline Marois, Bernard Landry, Jacques Parizeau, the aforementioned Mayor Jean Tremblay of Saguenay, and many, many others would have felt right at home in the Germany of 1933. Rene Levesque would be ashamed of what his party has become.
And I'm not claiming that these kind of people represent the feelings of Quebecers as a whole. They certainly do not. But they are expert in sowing fear in people who do not know any better that their culture is in danger of vanishing when no such danger exists. Even Jean Charest is a fear monger, trying to scare Anglos and Allos into voting for him by saying the vote for any other party works out to a vote for the PQ.
gugu, people started leaving in droves after the PQ first came to power. By the time the referendum had passed, most of those who were planning to leave, and had the ability to leave, had already gone. And for your information, they weren't all anglos. But what they had in common is that they had the financial means to leave. You also have to understand that many of those who did leave were some of the most educated people in Quebec with the most earning potential. Not only did we lose those who left, we also lost the families they would go on to have and everything that goes along with that. And it hasn't stopped yet, people are still leaving and it increases every time some crap starts to happen here like the Reasonable Accomodation hearings or the possibility of a PQ government being re-elected along with the referndum threat that comes along with it.
http://www.immigration.ca/news-oct07-emigration.asp
http://nodogsoranglophones.blogspot.ca/
http://nodogsoranglophones.blogspot.ca/2011/01/quebec-ethnics-destroy-separatist-dream.html
EB, yes I believe that many of the current and past leaders of the separatist movement such as Pauline Marois, Bernard Landry, Jacques Parizeau, the aforementioned Mayor Jean Tremblay of Saguenay, and many, many others would have felt right at home in the Germany of 1933. Rene Levesque would be ashamed of what his party has become.
And I'm not claiming that these kind of people represent the feelings of Quebecers as a whole. They certainly do not. But they are expert in sowing fear in people who do not know any better that their culture is in danger of vanishing when no such danger exists. Even Jean Charest is a fear monger, trying to scare Anglos and Allos into voting for him by saying the vote for any other party works out to a vote for the PQ.
In the period 1981-1986 anglophones' emigration out of Quebec is lower then in the period 1971-1976. I will admit however that as we advanced in time the population of scared anglophones shrank, lessening the potential for emigration.
gugu, people started leaving in droves after the PQ first came to power. By the time the referendum had passed, most of those who were planning to leave, and had the ability to leave, had already gone. And for your information, they weren't all anglos. But what they had in common is that they had the financial means to leave. You also have to understand that many of those who did leave were some of the most educated people in Quebec with the most earning potential. Not only did we lose those who left, we also lost the families they would go on to have and everything that goes along with that. And it hasn't stopped yet, people are still leaving and it increases every time some crap starts to happen here like the Reasonable Accomodation hearings or the possibility of a PQ government being re-elected along with the referndum threat that comes along with it.
http://www.immigration.ca/news-oct07-emigration.asp