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Originally Posted by Charlatan
Typical of English Canadians to forget Saint Jean Baptiste.
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Every province has at least 1 'random' holiday that isn't national.
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Originally Posted by Sticky
For example the supreme cour of Canada refused to strike down the Quebec government's controversial ban on butter-coloured margarine.
That's right. In Quebec you are not allowed to make margaring the color of butter.
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Sacks of margerine with butter-colouring in seperate containers, which you squeeze to break and mix with the margerine! =)
Way back in the day, Britian and France where at war.
Britian won. As part of the surrender agreement, Britian got some of France's overseas colonies.
One of the colonies given to Britian was Quebec.
Time passes. Eventually there are two colonies that merge into one colony with two provinces: Upper and Lower Canada (named being up or down river on the St Lawrence).
Criminal law in both of these provinces is based off British Common Law, but in Lower Canada (Quebec) Civil law is based off, well, French law (Napoleonic I think?).
Quebec was and always has been a French speaking colony/nation/province.
Time passes. Quebec remains French, but part of Canada. There where a number of ... national schizms that got polarized along linguistic lines.
English-speaking Canada was far more attached to the British Empire than was French-speaking Canada. Conscription during WWI and WWII was strongly opposed within Quebec. So strongly that in WWII, Canada never sent a single conscripted soldier into combat -- conscripts served at home.
Since WWII, more things have happened. The Quiet Revolution. FLQ, a domestic terroist group who kidnapped and killed and blew stuff up. The war measures act. 1982 and the notwithstanding clause, Meech lake, the Charlottetown accord, the constitutional crisis. Linquistic law. Official Bilingualism. The PQ. A French President expelled from Canada. The clarity law. The collapse of the Catholic Church in Quebec. 50%+1. The PC parties dual betrayal of Quebec and the West, and the collapse of the founding party of Canada. The Reform Party. Transfer payments. Energy. Quebec Hydro.
It's millions of people and hundreds of years of politics.