Can Quebec and Canada really get along? Journalist Chantal Hebert unpacks a loaded question

The Reader's Digest Annual Lecture Series in Journalism is the signature event of Concordia's Department of Journalism.
In partnership with the university's Thinking Out Loud festival of ideas, a colourful talk was sparked between political pundit Chantal Hebert and veteran journalist Francine Pelletier. The topic is one rife with history and nuance: Quebec-Canada relations.
Hebert is the bestselling author of "The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was."

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  • @MM-fy8yx
    @MM-fy8yx9 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love Chantal Hebert, she's so knowledgeable about Canadian issues. Love hearing her perspectives

  • @robin-bq1lz
    @robin-bq1lz7 жыл бұрын

    Chantal Hébert est la meilleure journaliste du Canada et ce dans les deux langues.👏🏼

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    3 жыл бұрын

    Bien sûr, c'est votre avis et vous le partagez! En passant, quand on écrit la meilleur journaliste comme vous le faites on passe pour quelqu'un qui ne sait pas écrire en français même s'il ne manquait qu'un «e»....

  • @robin-bq1lz

    @robin-bq1lz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@FrancoisBerubeRepDom tiens un petit moralisateur frustré, ta petite vie doit être d’une ennuie incroyable pour faire un scandale de toutes les fautes d’orthographes sur KZread. Trouve-toi des amis où une blonde, ta vie n’en sera que moins pathétique et vide.Bonne chance...😁😘👌👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@robin-bq1lz Ennuie est masculin alors une ennuie c'est une autre faute petit blanc bec

  • @robin-bq1lz

    @robin-bq1lz

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@FrancoisBerubeRepDom ton argumentation a encore fait mouche, toujours se fier à l’emballage…😁😘

  • @Nancy-mq4uc

    @Nancy-mq4uc

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wtf, t'es dans les commentaires des 3 dernières vidéos que j'ai regardé!

  • @j.p.montpellier3834
    @j.p.montpellier38342 жыл бұрын

    The two solitudes explained with grace and humour....Bravo Madame ! 😊👍🇨🇦

  • @jackjackthompson5771
    @jackjackthompson57713 жыл бұрын

    National treasure. What a skill to really understand all sides of the highly divided canada quebec endless political mess

  • @SuperKing604
    @SuperKing6042 жыл бұрын

    I feel like I understand Quebec better after watching this and another long Chantal interview

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    2 жыл бұрын

    Il ne s'agit pas seulement de conprendre le Québec il faut cesser de vouloir le faire disparaitre!

  • @bigfatburn6229
    @bigfatburn62295 жыл бұрын

    As neighbours yes. Comme voisins oui;-)

  • @MsBones1

    @MsBones1

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you. Quebec and Canada would be better off as two separate nations.

  • @bremexperience
    @bremexperience4 жыл бұрын

    Pipeline IS the issue. Was spot on.

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    2 жыл бұрын

    Tu comprend rien!

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom
    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom3 жыл бұрын

    Quelle a l'air à l'aise en anglais!

  • @hansdupuis8263
    @hansdupuis82633 жыл бұрын

    Speaking French in Québec is already a political act on itself

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    2 жыл бұрын

    Non, parler français au Québec c'est parler notre langue qui est d'ailleurs notre seule langue officielle. Il ne nous reste plus que de faire reconnaître notre pays hors du giron fédéraliste.

  • @MsBones1

    @MsBones1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@FrancoisBerubeRepDom You will get your country recognized when you actually leave and we put up the borders and wall. If you want French to be the official language of your country then you leave and have no more English in Quebec but you have to stop damaging the rest of Canada to be bilingual because you want to do everything in French. Again its you to leave and have no more English in Quebec.

  • @qmcnetwork

    @qmcnetwork

    10 ай бұрын

    @@MsBones1 French is already an official language you english muffin twat and Quebec tried but english folks even took governement paid plane to go protest in montreal because they know that canada without quebec is just a bunch of prairies and not much else

  • @batuach100
    @batuach10010 ай бұрын

    🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @yveslegault6825
    @yveslegault6825 Жыл бұрын

    Systematic transgression of the BNAA since its inception in 1867 will prevent Quebec and Canada to get along. The royal proclamation of October 7 1763 came less than 8 months after the Treaty of Paris as an effort to discard from it the dispositions regarding french settlers and indigenous. This bring up questions regarding the validity of any so called legal action since then. Therefore, we live in a parody of a country. It has been so for almost 260 years!

  • @dracorpgroup
    @dracorpgroup5 ай бұрын

    When Canada was formed Lord Dorchester in England insisted and succeeded in having two key elements in formation of the country; that is, the protection of the French language and the protection of the religion of the French speaking people in Quebec which was the Roman Catholic faith. As an act of legislation in the British Parliament It is all there in the BNA Act that began the country. Another key element in the formation of Canada was that there eleven sovereign elements; that is, the eventual ten provinces each with its Provincial elected parliament plus the Federal Government with its elected parliament. Powers were to be shared or in some cases exclusive to one level of government or the other. The military was Federal, education was provincial for example. The simple fact that the French language has lived in a sea of North American English is a testament to the good will in the country. Doubtless it has been under extreme strain even among those of the highest level of good and trusted will. The problem is that in order to conduct business with the world outside Quebec it is necessary to be able to communicate in English. Well educated unilingual French persons working at Bombardier would be severely limited in their careers. Even Airbus in France communicates with its clients in English. In Quebec the leaders have a competency in both of these languages. In effect, the result has been that the size of Canada has sheltered French to this day though many would not admit to this fact. In the interwar period immigrants to Canada, read Quebec, were forced to have their children attend school in the English school boards because they were not French while the Jewish immigrants had to send their children to Protestant school boards because they were not Catholic. That was acceptable as long as the French continued having large families. This changed when the population shifted from being agrarian to moving to the cities for jobs which were for the most part English. These changes were significant. Today, with the international business format plus the internet, to be successful it is required to be able to speak English. French remains under threat but it also remains under the shield of Canada. If Quebec were to separate, to this writer the French language would be greatly reduced in strength and in use within two generations. The problem today will rest with immigration and with education. Many future immigrants will be coming from conflict zones and those scars will come here with them including in the language sphere. We are beginning to see these tensions already. Thank you for reading.

  • @tailiu223
    @tailiu2232 жыл бұрын

    La langue anglaise est tres puissant. C'est dommage pour les francophones.

  • @megan2484

    @megan2484

    2 жыл бұрын

    les francos sont de grandes personnes. QUand tu es une grande personne, tu t'en fou des autres.

  • @user-fs7eq8lq4w

    @user-fs7eq8lq4w

    Жыл бұрын

    Pas vraiment par ce que la plus part d’entre nous parle anglais et français contrairement à vous

  • @tailiu223

    @tailiu223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-fs7eq8lq4w Vive le Quebec libre !

  • @megoldbergfinesilverlawyer2531
    @megoldbergfinesilverlawyer25317 жыл бұрын

    Here is a question ? The Canadian-Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedom Confers the Right to Disables to Refuse to See a RRQ Government Appointed Doctor. Consequently, Government is NOT to Refuse Disability Benefits to Disables exercising their legal right to see their own doctor, We shall need your HELP Disables shall undertake a CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT / Me Israel Perlman

  • @tailiu223
    @tailiu2232 жыл бұрын

    Vive le Quebec libre !

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom
    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom3 жыл бұрын

    L'Anglais est toujours premier servi c'est sûr et Chantal Hébert l'a tellement pratiqué qu'elle est maintenant plus à l'aise dans la langue du colonisateur.

  • @jackjackthompson5771

    @jackjackthompson5771

    3 жыл бұрын

    Typical asshole comment from an asshole.go back into your hole.

  • @MsBones1

    @MsBones1

    2 жыл бұрын

    The colonizer - This is the living proof that we are not having a language war but a long-overdue war between New France and New England. The French lost the battle, and thus "control" over Canada in 1759 and they've never forgotten it. This is why Canadians have been forced to stare at Quebec license plates all these years that read -- Je me souviens -- This will never end until Quebec is gone. Let me also say for the record that having Quebecers speak English or be English only is not an incentive for me to want to keep you guys in Canada. It would be better to leave and have no more English in your country of Quebec. Stop voting to remain in Canada and then continually talk about what a hard oppress people you are. We are your enemy and your enemy is letting you go.

  • @tailiu223

    @tailiu223

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jackjackthompson5771 Another rude anglophone

  • @nathaliehutchinson4669
    @nathaliehutchinson46694 жыл бұрын

    How can anyone want to vote. When there are ssssooo many dishonest people cheaters and liars. Where are all the honest and caring people gone it’s to bad JACK LOTTOn passed away because he was an honest person. gOD be with him. Please don’t change QUEBEC. As it has very special quality and class it would be a shame to change the QUEBEC ways and quality. GOD be with us all

  • @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    @FrancoisBerubeRepDom

    2 жыл бұрын

    Je suppose que les honnêtes gens sont ceux qui parlent anglais!

  • @MsBones1

    @MsBones1

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@FrancoisBerubeRepDom Decent people are not necessarily ones who speak just English but those that are kind to their fellow man. The language spoken does not matter.