After all these years, Quebec can teach Canada a lot about pushing against a tide of hegemony from a proximate cultural majority

Ever since the bayonets were lowered on the Plains of Abraham, Quebec has had its elbows up instead.

Military defeat meant the fight for cultural survival had begun. The French fact in North America would endure through sheer cussedness if it was going to endure at all.

Two-hundred and sixty-some years later, Quebec francophones have not only survived but flourished. Their culture is as rich and distinct as that of any small nation anywhere in the world. And those elbows are still up – bony beacons for anglo Canadians, who are once again resolved to resist U.S. hegemony in all its forms.

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Eric Andrew-Gee, The Globe and Mail, 17 octobre 2025.

Illustration: Hanna Barczyk