Excerpt of Why I Am a Separatist by Marcel Chaput: Difference between revisions

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For a lot of people, not only French Canadians, the economic aspect of a problem is always the most important. Before the proposition of the independence of Quebec, they will invariably say that they will support this idea the day they will have been demonstrated that Quebec would benefit from it economically speaking.
For a lot of people, not only French Canadians, the economic aspect of a problem is always the most important. Before the proposition of the independence of Quebec, they will invariably say that they will support this idea the day they will have been demonstrated that Quebec would benefit from it economically speaking.


It is the the goal of this book to prove the economic viability of an independent Quebec. We will discuss it later on. These few pages have the sole purpose of reminding you that, in currently in Canada, in the Confederation, French Canadians have not won a thing. On the contrary, they lose constantly.
It is the the goal of this book to prove the economic viability of an independent Quebec. We will discuss it later on. These few pages have the sole purpose of reminding you that, currently in Canada, in the Confederation, French Canadians have not won a thing. On the contrary, they lose constantly.


Maybe the comfort, which is always relative, which you enjoy makes you feel for a serious setback of your standard of living, a marked change in your habits, a prolonged economic recession. After all, French Canadians are not doing so bad, whatever they say.
Maybe the comfort, which is always relative, which you enjoy makes you feel for a serious setback of your standard of living, a marked change in your habits, a prolonged economic recession. After all, French Canadians are not doing so bad, whatever they say.


I hasten to remind that we are not referring to individual liberty here. There are among French Canadians some rich men, millionaire even, which seems to provide the evidence that a French Canadian can grow rich, even inside Confederation. The matter here are French Canadians taken as a people, as a nation, and Quebec, the province which they inhabit. And the French Canadian nation is an economically weak and economically under-developed nation, which live under an economic trusteeship.
I hasten to remind you that we are not referring to individual liberty here. There are among French Canadians some rich men, millionaire even, which seems to provide the evidence that a French Canadian can grow rich, even inside Confederation. The matter here are French Canadians taken as a people, as a nation, and Quebec, the province which they inhabit. And the French Canadian nation is an economically weak and economically under-developed nation, that lives under an economic trusteeship.


I am not here trying to establish who shares the responsibilities for this situation. We will come back to it in the next book. I am only recording a fact. Economically, the French Canadians are a people under trusteeship.
I am not here trying to establish who shares the responsibilities for this situation. We will come back to it in the next book. I am only recording a fact. Economically, the French Canadians are a people under trusteeship.
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''A people under trusteeship''
''A people under trusteeship''


No need to be an economist, statistician or an informed industrial to realize that French Canadians are not the masters, the owners of their own province or of the own cities.  
No need to be an economist, statistician or an informed industrialist to realize that French Canadians are not the masters, the owners of their own province or of their own cities.  


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