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Originally Posted by LakeLocker
I was watching a 1972 documentary about the Quebec Nordiques the other day and I was surprised on how different their attitudes were towards nationalism and the modern bloc equivalent. The narrative I got from the video was that French Canadians happened to be in Quebec and that they were just another group of people living in Canada. The same French English divide could of easily been switched for Catholics and Protestants.
At the current moment I think the difference between Canadians and Americans are very similar. Yes we are different but it isn't something we live out in day to day life.
Could we really change stuff up using Quebec as an example?
I don't mean something like cutting off all interaction with Americans but maybe something as simple as forcing the NHL to create an all Canadian hockey division, or creation of a Canadian hockey league etc.
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I feel like there is a growing cultural divide between Americans and Canadians that will eventually cause the needs and preferences of Canadians to be serviced differently than those of Americans. However, the way I see it, it's being more influenced by the changes in American attitudes, not Canadians, producing the illusion of a growing "Canadian identity" from outside, when nothing is really changing all that much inside. One day we're going to find ourselves different enough that a more Quebec-style nationalistic approach will be the only way that we'll get what we want up here.
I'd say that prior to the US/Canadian borders becoming more rigorously enforced as a result of 9/11, there wasn't any difference between Americans and Canadians since mobility between the two nations was very easy and cross-border familial ties were much more common. The presence of a harder border fosters the idea that we are two different countries. The results of the 2016 election in the United States have continued to fuel the divide, with a new, generally widespread and well-represented acceptance of values that we ourselves mostly do not find acceptable in our own nation. The perpetuation of these values in the US will further separate us from them.
Seriousness aside, I would be very happy with an all-Canadian NHL equivalent.