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Thread #46300   Message #693725
Posted By: sian, west wales
19-Apr-02 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: Bloc quebecois votes gainst motion to se
Subject: RE: Bloc quebecois votes gainst motion to se
I've never liked this Anglos vs. Francos business. It's wildly misleading. The Canadian population is, apparently, British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%. My Dad always wrote "Welsh" on any official Canadian forms; my mum, in her youth, was one of the back-lash generation who began to refuse to use "British" for 'origin' and insisted on saying "Canadian".

I also seem to remember an Albertan French-Canadian once telling me that they didn't like Quebecois claiming to speak for all French Canadians.

Ain't life in the cultural mosaic grand?

sian

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