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I suspect France wouldn't want much to do wiv 'em..just like when they lost to the British here. After the Plains of Abraham had solved the issue, many french wanted to go back to France. France told 'em to get stuffed - they weren't welcome. So, they went to Loiuisiana.
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The QUEBEC can stand alone!
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I highly doubt that, Paddy. The vast majority of Quebec actually belongs t 1st Nations Peoples. If Quebec quits - the indigeonous get their properties back. Quebec can't stand without the massive amount of federal $$ given them.
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They didn't help themselves with France when they gave "Le Bec" a hard time when he came over last time.
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Prime Minister Pearson went on television to tell de Gaulle that his statements were “unacceptable to the Canadian people.” The newly appointed minister of Justice, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, asked what the French reaction would be if a Canadian prime minister shouted “Brittany to the Bretons!” After these rebukes, de Gaulle cut short his trip and went home. Madame Vanier realized to her distress that her old friend felt no gratitude for past help. Prior to de Gaulle's celebrated trip, she had sent him a single message: “1940.”

General de Gaulle’s statement would mark — and tarnish — relations between France and Canada for a long time to come. In many respects, his July 1967 visit had a profound impact on the Québec nationalism of that era."
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How quick Gaulle (the nose) and France forget how Canada help France in the WWII.
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I remember this, though I was fairly young. That guy was arrogant, if nothing else. 
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"The Nose" was more than arrogant.That S.O.B. believed HE was the saviour of France - not the allies - in WWII.
& I don't think it was so much "He" cut his trip short..butmethinks (IIRC) he was "advised" to leave by his host.
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I saw a painting of Gaulle in a small museum near Calais. 

Wished I took a photo of it.

All that is showed was his "nose"

His Airport outside of Paris sucks too.
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A little of both I think.
When I was living in France they were still reeling from the loss of "The Colonies"!
"Le Bec" giving away Algeria made him roundly hated.
"Al-gé-rie Française" would start a bar fight in many places.
I was living in a student apartment (Bed-Sitter/ Studio) in an area heavily populated by Algerians & others from French Africa most of who were attending "Académie Militaire", which was in the area & actually it was called that by many because that was the Metro stop.
It was a great place to have a "Un pied de terre", Really a community. I have some great stories from those days.
The joke was "We only get tear-gassed every other Wednesday! We're Moroccans"! Which was true, none of your wimpy CS, this was CN fired from APC "water cannons".
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Thank goodness it was  not Saturday.
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it would be a really big state , but that would give fair representation i think as that is based on population , 
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"A BIG STATE"? you could fit TEXAS into Ontario about 4X & still have room!
The country is huge..but hollow. Most folks (90%+) live within 100 miles of a U.S. border.
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Sat I wouldn't have been there! I went to Vervins for the weekends!Heart
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Originally posted by hoadie hoadie wrote:

"A BIG STATE"? you could fit TEXAS into Ontario about 4X & still have room!
The country is huge..but hollow. Most folks (90%+) live within 100 miles of a U.S. border.

Errrr, not quite.  You could fit 1 1/2 Texas's in Ontario.  
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Your right!! (My Bad) Ontario is 1.55 X the size of Texas.
(But you could fit Blighty into Ontario 9X! )
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I hope Prime Minister Pierre Poilievre can turn things around for Canada.  What I hear from my many friends in Canada is that it is getting harder and harder for each successive generation to enjoy the same level of prosperity as the previous generation.  Every generation has had its malcontents but when the number of discontents gets too high bad choices are made and too many people start believing the siren song of Socialism.
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