I’m Not Ready to Lose Canada

I’m Not Ready to Lose Canada

As a Quebecer, I have always had an ambivalent, if not uneasy, relationship to Canada. The province’s deep sense of being distinct, of speaking a language most of the rest of the country doesn’t always bother to understand, marked me. Even as much of my early life in my family’s Montreal home was lived in Italian, we often consumed culture in French. After school, I watched Passe-Partout, Bobino, and a series starring a glum clown called Sol. My…