Exam 5: french canada and the quebec question

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Quebec feels it is distinct from the rest of Canada for several reasons.First, some 86 percent of Canadian francophones are located in Quebec, 81 percent of Quebeckers are French-speaking, and over 90 percent of Canadians who use French at home live in that province.Second, Quebec's political institutions are distinctive in many ways: the civil law system; the downplaying of symbols of the Crown; and the plethora of state enterprises, many of them protecting or regulating cultural activities.Third, Quebec has pursued many policy differences from other provinces: laws that are more labour friendly; multifunctional public clinics that combine health and social services; a more important role for the provincial government in immigration; and a distinctive form of collaboration among the state, capital, and labour.Fourth, Quebec is distinct in the separateness of its sources of news and entertainment and in many of the institutions of its civil society, such as interest groups and political parties.Quebeckers see Quebec as the heartland of French Canada, a province that needs special constitutional recognition and has the responsibility to protect itself in the North American English linguistic environment.