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Two solitudes : Quebecers' attitudes regarding Canadian security and defence policy

28 Mar 2005

First, a review of the historical and sociological literature shows that the historical differences of French Canadians on defence issues have their roots in the Loyalist-Nationalist divide in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries; French-Canadians perceived that English Canadians were too quick to support foreign British interests then; and American interests now. [...] The result is a clash of defence cultures with the “rest of Canada” which paralyzes modernisation and investment in the CF’s traditional war-fighting roles, as well as causing friction with allies due to Canada’s free-riding on security.3 Québec is also thought to exert a disproportionate amount of influence in Ottawa on defence issues; the fact that the Chrétien Government’s decision to not parti [...] These would include perceived anti-French Canadian decisions such as bilingual policies (or lack thereof) in the Department of National Defence, the closing of the Royal Military College in St-Jean, as well as conspiracy theories still attempting to link the military deployment during the 1970 October Crisis to the War Measures Act.5 Although there were great strides in the 1960s and 1970s to acco [...] One of the interesting features of having a population constituted in the majority of two founding nations and languages is having the opportunity to analyse the impact of culture on foreign policy attitudes. [...] While they found a general trend pointing to a decrease in international news coverage over that decade,6 they found that some of the major differences in reporting between the English and French news papers uncovered in the early 1980s were still prevalent ten years later: In the treatment given to various themes by English and French-language papers, with the most outstanding example remaining t
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Authors

Rioux, Jean-Sébastien

Pages
32
Published in
Canada

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