The NDP is officially on the offensive in Quebec. It’s often said en passant, even in media reports, that the House of Commons declared Quebec a nation in 2006. And even the NDP’s Sherbrooke Declaration, which laid the political and philosophical groundwork for the party’s 2011 breakthrough in Quebec, speaks only of Quebec’s “national character.”The difference between “Quebec nationhood” and “Québécois nationhood” (to say nothing of Quebec’s “national character”) is maddeningly vague. But both Quebec and Québécois nationalism have changed enormously since the NDP began appealing to it. Shortly thereafter, Quebec politics became consumed with an often-hysterical debate around “reasonable accommodations” for religious minorities.

Source: National Post March 13, 2019 00:25 UTC