Question: Should Quebec (or other provinces) separate from Canada in order to best protect
its constitutional rights?
In my opinion, all provinces in Canada, including Quebec should not separate. Quebec
has been one of the provinces of Canada for a long period of time. Most people in the
world view that it is one of the component in Canada. French-Canadian and
English-Canadian seem to live together peacefully without conflict, even many people with
different cultures and languages come to Canada in recent years. I thick Quebec has no
reason to become independence from a multicultural nation.
Some people who agree Quebec to separate state that separation can protect their
French culture and language. I think it is an unacceptable reason in a multicultural
nation. Multicultualism is a special identity of Canada. It allows people to maintain
their own culture. If Canada does not have multiculturalism, there will be no Chinatown
in most big cities in Canada. So it is not necessary to separate in order to protect
French culture and language. Furthermore if French-Canadian wants to avoid any influence
from other culture, France is the greatest place for them.
Moreover, the Canada government will lose money if Quebec separates by dealing with
the separation affairs, like to help people in Quebec back to Canada who do not want to
separate. Separation also leads to the decreasing of trade in Canada, and even the whole
world. Quebec is a big trade market in Canada. People will lose this big market if Quebec
is no longer a province of Canada. This will not only harmful to Canada, but also the
separated Quebec.
Quebec separation is also a morality problem. In fact, it is part of Canada. People
in a nation are like brothers and sisters, they should help and protect each other. If
Quebec separates, it will act like one of the family members leave the family and no
longer maintains his last name. Nobody wishes to have this happens in his family.
Beside, identity of a nation is very important. It makes difference between country
and country. People in the world know that Canada is mainly formed by French-Canadian and
English-Canadian, and it has bilingual and muiltcultural culture. Most French-Canadian
lives in Quebec. If Canada loses Quebec, the French-Canadian culture will surly be lost.
If there is no French-Canadian culture, then the identity of bilingual will no longer
need. Multiculturalism will no longer support by the French culture. Canada will hurt a
lot because it loses one of the most special identities.
Canada, including Quebec belong to every Canadian, not only the Quebecers. Every
Canadian should have the right to determine Quebec should leave or stay. It is normal in
a democratic country and government should respect to what the citizens say. In Canada,
only 22% of people agree that Quebec should separate, as well as 27% in Alberta. By these
percentages, we can see that most people disagree Quebec to separate. Moreover, 80%
people in Alberta oppose letting a separate Quebec use the Canadian money dollar, and 69%
against letting Quebecers commute from their homes to a job in a Canadian province.
Overall, Canadian should help to create and improve its society. If we treat people
with different cultures kindly and friendly, Quebec may won't have the idea to separate.
Beside, separation will hurt the national unity.
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