Having a head of state whose role is entirely symbolic except in case of constitutional emergency actually has a lot to recommend it!
I guess I'd say the question about the relation between the Quebecois, or at least Quebecois nationalists, and indigenous peoples hasn't really come up like it used to since the last Quebec independence referendum (in 1995) ... when independence was a real possibility, it was a big issue whether huge chunks of indigenous-claimed territory would go with them, at least without however much of a fight. So at that time I'd say they were largely opposed. There was a lot of hostility between some indigenous groups and the province leading up to 1995 ... there was a shootout and standoff at Oka in 1990 (which might have been international news I guess), in which a cop was killed before the army was sent in ... but similar things have happened over the years in other provinces. The big national-unity concern has become Alberta rather than Quebec ... the Quebecois nationalist movement has largely faded away, as a political force ... such that it's now possible to have a G-G who doesn't speak French, which would've been unthinkable until ... well, I'd say it pretty much was unthinkable until it happened.
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Date: 2021-08-12 02:34 am (UTC)I guess I'd say the question about the relation between the Quebecois, or at least Quebecois nationalists, and indigenous peoples hasn't really come up like it used to since the last Quebec independence referendum (in 1995) ... when independence was a real possibility, it was a big issue whether huge chunks of indigenous-claimed territory would go with them, at least without however much of a fight. So at that time I'd say they were largely opposed. There was a lot of hostility between some indigenous groups and the province leading up to 1995 ... there was a shootout and standoff at Oka in 1990 (which might have been international news I guess), in which a cop was killed before the army was sent in ... but similar things have happened over the years in other provinces. The big national-unity concern has become Alberta rather than Quebec ... the Quebecois nationalist movement has largely faded away, as a political force ... such that it's now possible to have a G-G who doesn't speak French, which would've been unthinkable until ... well, I'd say it pretty much was unthinkable until it happened.