12-01-2018 21:54 via montrealgazette.com

Don Macpherson: Who is entitled to victimhood in Quebec

Quebec is a province of minorities. Even the French-speaking provincial majority is keenly aware that it is a national cultural and political minority. And not even political separation from Canada would change its status as a tiny minority in North America.
The insecurity of minorities explains the defensiveness of Quebec’s nationalism, which is really based on culture rather than territory, and the divisiveness of its politics, which treats other cultures as threats to its majority&rsquo
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