Reflections

A recent piece by Patrick Déry raised an important question about the tone of Quebec’s sovereignty debate. He pointed to a remark by Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, who said in an end-of-year interview with La Presse that if you prefer to remain Canadian, you are a federalist—and therefore not a Quebecer. In the months […]

When I began writing The True North Talks, I thought I was telling a political story — one rooted in history, language, and the familiar tensions between Quebec and the rest of Canada. It was only after I finished that I realized the book had become something else. Rather than arguing for an outcome, the