If you're not a nation within Canada, you're just not special enough

Paul Wells reacts to the Commons motion recognising Quebec's nationhood within Canada:
It is telling that only one nation was discussed in the House of Commons today, and it was the nation most Canadians don't live in. Apparently most of us don't deserve a nation. Certainly we don't seem to deserve a prime minister who names our nation for us. And if you don't like today's events in the Commons, you pretty much have to lump it, don't you: Vote Tory, NDP or Liberal, it's all pretty much of a muchness, because none of them can name a nation worth defending except Quebec.

Comments

Good reaction. The Acadians believe they were here first, before les Quebcois, and are more French than they are. So why is New Brunswick, with its unique bilingual character and with a strong Acadian presence, culture, language, traditions, not a Nation too?

Why do Federalists look so much like separatists? Does no-one have the stomach to say they're proud of Canada, of the shared destiny that we've created, and we'll hold that up against divisive separatism any day?

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