WHY THE CANADIENS DON'T LIKE CANADA

 

For those who may wonder, there are very good reasons for the Canadiens (I'm not speaking about the Montréal hockey club) don't like Canada, especially the way it is now.

For those who may wonder, the only reason the Canadiens still existe as a people (un peuple), it's not because Canadians are nice and gently. The real reason is that the Canadiens were too stubborn, stubborn enough to refuse to become assimilated through the ages, and too numerous to be deported, like our Acadiens brothers and sisters were, once upon a time. They still live around the vast Gulf of St-Lawrence, but that's not thanks to the British empire, who tried really hard to uproot them. Niceness and politeness have nothing to do with that kind of things, to put it succintly.

For those who may wonder, the simple truth of the matter, is that the Canadiens, of which I am glad to count myself as a part, don't want to become Canadians. We just do not wish to ever become Queen-loving, English-speaking, Tim Hortons' coffee-drinking, Anglosphere-dreaming run-of-the-mill Canada worshippers. We simply don't have the same dreams.

Canada is a british kingdom that refuse to present it as such, even though it is, prefering to see itself and present itself as a confederation. In truth, it never was, an independant confederation. What is call Confederation, in Anglo-Canadian circles, is the transformation, in 1867, of a number of isolated British colonies into a confederation of British colonies, remaining under the umbrella of the British empire. These days, a century and a half later, who's the Head of State of the Kingdom of Canada? It's not Justin Trudeau, the Prime minister, it's in fact the Queen of Australia, who also happen to be the Queen of New Zealand, the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Queen of Canada, who's living in London, on the other side of the Atlantic, so far away and so near us at the same time.

We have nothing against the Queen. She's a wonderful lady who spoke flawless French. She was not there when we became a conquered people, nor when the rebellion of the Patriotes was crush in blood and fire in small villages all around Montréal, by the British army, nor when Louis Riel was hanged for trying the prevent the Anglo-Ontarians to conquer the Prairies, over the resistance of a coalition of North American Indians, Métis and French Canadians, nor when the French language was forbidden all over the quite British Ontario, nor when we we're called (quite harshly), in the streets of our own province, to Speak White by a few Anglo-Canadians who apparently tought that we were not white enough and who's descendants, somewhat strangely, decades later, seems to think now that we're just a bunch of racists (I'm still trying to figure that one). It's true that we don't really like Anglo-Canadians all that much, but it's simply because we have difficulty forgetting everything that has happened since 1759, and that's a lot to remember.

Je me souviens. Je n'oublierai jamais.

Vive le Québec libre! Vive l'Acadie!

The Acadiens still lives on the territory of the first French colony in North America, 

that is to say all around the Gulf of St.Lawrence, including parts of

Eastern Québec. The Canadiens originates from the second French colony,

to the west and upriver, from the French establishment named Canada,

that grew from Québec City to Trois-Rivières and Montréal,

along the lower reaches of the St.Lawrence River, and who now lived

in the provinces that lies east of the Ottawa River (the province of Québec)

or west of it (Ontario and the western provinces, up to the Pacific).

The Acadien flag.