Ya know, it seems to me that the best chance to preserve the French culture and heritage in Canada would be for them to actively promote it. The art, the music, the architecture. I mean, as much as it pains me to say it, Quebec City is one of Canada's best kept secrets. It is a jewel that everyone should visit. Montreal is as multicultural as Toronto, without the pole shoved up its ass. The Gatineaus are spectacular, especially in the fall.
There is so much more Quebec has to offer. It's just too bad a minority have spent so long pissing the rest of the country off. The money might have been better spent trying to encourage the rest of Canada to see what Quebec has to offer. To embrace the French part of our nation's history and culture instead of trying to cram it down a segment of the population's throat.

This is why I always say that Quebec is not only part of Canada, but it's the most Canadian part of Canada because it is the part of Canada which is truly unique and different from the rest of the entire world. Unlike English-Canadians, they don't try to 'fit in' with the rest of the continent or the world. They don't live in the shadow of the United States, they refuse to complacently conform. Their only fault as a nation is living in the shadow of their own past, which has rendered many of them so far incapable of accepting the one thing about them they don't want to accept: their Canadianness.

'Canada's University' home to first Bloc club

OTTAWA — It bills itself as “Canada’s University” and is headed by a former federal Liberal cabinet minister who fought for Canadian unity.

Now, the University of Ottawa is also home to the first Bloc Quebecois student club outside of Quebec.

Les Bloquistes de l’Universite d’Ottawa, recently approved by the university’s student federation, is now eligible for a variety of services, such as use of rooms at the university, and up to $1,000 a year in funding from the student federation to help it promote its goal of a sovereign Quebec.

“Now we can organize conferences to promote the Bloc Quebecois’ ideas and the sovereigntist movement,” said Jean-François Landry, president of the Bloc Quebecois’ youth wing, Forum Jeunesse, and a student at the university and member of the club.

The Bloc is one of several political clubs among the more than 170 clubs on campus. In fact, the only major federal party that isn’t currently represented on campus is the Liberal Party — despite the fact the university’s president is former federal Liberal cabinet minister Allan Rock.

Roxanne Denis, assistant clubs co-ordinator for the student federation, said there have been no complaints about the Bloc club being accredited. On the contrary, she said it widens the scope of debate on campus.

Tristan Dénommée, president of the Bloc’s student club, said the club has about 25 members so far, has held its first meeting and is planning to invite Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe to speak on campus.

The bilingual university appears to be popular with both Quebecers and members of the Bloc Quebecois. In fact, two of the Bloc youth wing’s nine-member executive attend the University of Ottawa, as well as a third student who was, until recently, on the executive.

Landry, who describes himself as a foreign student, is quick to point out they all live in Quebec.

funny to see separatists to go study in Ottawa, in a bilingual university.

Around here not so strange, alot of separatists work for the federal government as well that vote bloc time and time again.

Isn't that clled "the best of both worlds"?
Or hypocritical, of course.

If you stand for something, and it is so important to you, stand for it. Don't be half-assed about it.

lol I've just seen that I have 3525 messages IN ENGLISH here and I still can't speak english in day to day life... Vive le Québec libre ! (sarcasm...)