‘There is no Quebec nation’: Grand Chief delivers stern message to Quebec’s Justice Minister
‘There's no Quebec nation’: Grand Chief rejects Quebec constitution
Unfortunately, Quebec has no idea what he's talking about, in his strange foreign language.
I for one appreciate your satire of Quebecois' xenophobia, but I think it went over the heads of many.
Many meaning OP specifically.
I fully support indigenous sovereignty, respect for treaties, land back, and decolonization but sorry Grand Chief, it's not on you to decide if Quebec is a nation or not. That's for the Quebecois to decide.
The main problem here is that western society links a nation (the people) with the land these people currently occupy...
The Quebec people sure are a nation if they want to, but it doesn't mean they can do whatever they please with the land they are currently living on.
This land is shared with other nations (ex: the first nations), and usage must be negotiated with them.
The government of Quebec (and other provinces as well) have always ignored the first nations, in big part because they usually refused to take part of provincial elections. In fact, it is forbidden to publicly campaign in reservations, got that from the father of a friend who was an Innu lawyer.
They typically try to stay out of provincial politics because first nations laws are a federal level responsibility.
In short, this whole thing is a shitshow, first nations should understand that Quebec people have their needs and history, but Quebec people cannot assume they can ignore first nations with whom they live... Respecting each other and working together should result in a better, less corrupt, country for everyone!
Agreed 100%.
Generally, I see the debate and the tension itself as one of the best things about Canada and Quebec as a perpetual thorn on the side that doesn't allow either to become complacent and pushes both to be better. Without this fundamental tension both degenerate in the rotten "at least we're not as bad as the US/RoC" mode.
So, in that spirit, I think that a Quebec Independence project should be a step towards full decolonization and reconciliation, not away from it. And in the flip side, if the Quebec independence question flares up again, arguments for keeping Canada together and promises for a more perfect federation should also be in that direction.
The Ecuadorian plurinational model probably has a lot to teach both sovereignists and federalists.
Nope.
“There is no Quebec nation,” Diabo told APTN News. “[Jolin-Barrette is] a Canadian at the end of the day. They’re not separate from Canada. This whole push to want to try to separate, if that’s what they want to try to do, by all means, but you’re not leaving with Mohawk land. You don’t have jurisdiction over us.”
I'd say he disagrees.
Actually he doesn't. He says "if that's what they want to do, by all means", i.e., he specifically says the Quebecois can go off and do their own thing. He just doesn't feel like the Mohawks owe any allegiance to the Quebecois nation, which I mean, yea, that's 100% true.
He's saying multiple things all at once and contradicting himself.
The way I see it, it's on Quebec sovereignists to make a convincing case to indigenous people and to respect whatever the indigenous people decide to do. That's the whole point of nation-to-nation dialogue. I also happen to think that it is possible for a liberatory post-colonial Quebec sovereignism to exist, but the PQ isn't it.
Those are two seperate things.
You don't get to just decide you're a nation, that's not how being a nation works.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination are you high? This is the text book definition of nation building.
I'm from the Balkans. Trust me that's exactly how it works.
“Even on the consultation end, that’s defined by Canadian law, which they have to follow,” Diabo argued. “There’s processes in place for duties to consult, which they’re still not upholding either.”
Sounds like Quebec is not following the rules.
Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is crying in a dark corner over this one