Ehhh. Québec is not happy about this speech that Carney made in Québec City today.
Trying to erase the history of the British trying to assimilate the French. It's subtle, but it's incredibly insulting.
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"New France had fallen. British North America had begun.
It would have been easy – even expected – for the story to end there.
The familiar pattern of conquest: the vanquished absorbed, their language suppressed, their faith proscribed, their laws replaced. That is what conquerors had done for millennia.
From the Great Deportation of the Acadians to the Durham Report following the Patriots’ Rebellion, there were efforts by some to impose that model – assimilation, the familiar logic of conquest.
But in the end, that is not the path Canada took."
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The Plains of Abraham mark a battlefield, and also the place where Canada began to make its founding choice of accommodation over assimilation, of partnership over domination, of building together over pulling apart.
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/22/building-canada-together-prime-minister-carney-delivers-remarks-citadelle
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