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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Did the recent passing of Gordon Lightfoot get a lot of attention (and his songs, a lot of airplay), on French Quebec media?
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Some mentions but very brief, I'd say. Similar to what Karl Tremblay is getting from the anglo media.
I'm not really deploring this BTW. What I do deplore though is a kind of hypocrisy on the part of some whereby they pretend that the Tragically Hip (for example) and Les Cowboys Fringants are somehow part of a single national Canadian culture.
Even francophone federalists don't even think that, and don't pretend (for political reasons) that Alice Munro or Stan Rogers are part of
their culture.
(Note that I know a lot of these figures because I grew up in the ROC and went to school in English for many years. Your average Quebecer would not know them.)