Should Quebec be independent?

Quebec is a province in eastern Canada, bordering the Hudson Strait and Ngawa Bay in the north, Labrador in the east, St. Lawrence Bay and New Brunswick in the southeast, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York in the south, and Ontario and Hudson Bay in the west. It covers an area of 6.5438+0.54 million square kilometers, equivalent to the area of Alaska in the United States, and is the largest province in Canada.

The province's GDP accounts for about 22.3% of Canada's total. The population of this province accounts for about 1/4 of the total population of Canada. About 82% of them speak French as their first language, 9% speak English and 9% speak languages other than English and French. Due to different cultural backgrounds and historical reasons, there has always been a deep contradiction between Britain and France. French people gathered in Quebec have long tried to leave Canada and establish an independent country.

The issue of Quebec's independence was first put forward by the Quebec Party founded in 1968, and its platform clearly stipulated that it was necessary to "acquire Quebec's political sovereignty". 1976165438+10. In October, after the Quebec Party became the ruling party in Quebec Province, the activities of seeking independence further surged. 1979, 10 in June, the party formally proposed to establish a "new equal partnership" between Canada and Quebec, that is, a "sovereignty-connection" program that is politically independent and economically linked with other regions. 1980 In March, the Parliament of Quebec passed a resolution to hold a nationwide referendum on whether to negotiate independence with the federal central government. On May 20 of the same year, the idea of "independence" was rejected by a vote of 6 to 4, thus avoiding a storm that might lead to the division of Canada. Therefore, this referendum is considered to be a major event in Canada's political life in the 1980s, which has attracted great attention from the whole province and even Canada.

1995 10 10 on October 30th, Canada once again held a referendum on the independence of Quebec, and the federalists who opposed independence won by a narrow majority of 50.6%, temporarily avoiding the division of Canada, but the separatists vowed to continue fighting for independence.