This is high;y debateable. The NDP won 4.5-million votes in 2011; about 2.88 million in Quebec and 2.63-million in the rest of Canada. Yes, that is a slim majority from Quebec, but it's hardly accurate to say that a majority of the NDP's national votes came from former Bloc voters. There were switchers from all parties and the NDP had existing support in Quebec.
This sort of posting-by-caricature often leads to odd conclusions. You appear to start from the viewpoint of the tiny minority of Quebec residents who oppose Quebec natrionalism, and draw your conclusions based on that and not on actual information. Perceptions are powerful, sure, but it's lecturing to otehrs on how things "are," when the evidence for your arguments is so often lacking, that is in my humble opinion a problem.
We are not a tiny minority and we are growing and guess what, some of us are francophones.
This is on topic to the extent that anti-nationalist policies still appear to inform the Canadain Liberal party's approach to Quebec. I can find almost no one whose first langauge is not English, out here in "the regions of Quebec," who has the slightest sympathy for the sort of centralist Canadain nationalism that domiantes Liberal party thinking.
Approximately half of Quebec's population is in Montreal and another big chunk is in Quebec City. I don't know who you meet but I know lots of people who want strong federal programs like EI and medicare and don't want to give the provincial parties more power. Liberal support is not limited to anglophone Montrealers. Trudeau actively makes the argument for Canadian unity
Yes, many may vote Liberal in any case, if the Liberals are seen as the only way to get rid of the vile Harper government with its chokehold on much of Ontario. But to me it's evfidence that "two solitudes" exist, and many Liberal Canada-first nationalists like yourself are speaking from a different universe from the majority of Quebec.
What was the percentage of support for the Quebec Charter of Values again? Pretty damn high as I recall, especially in the regions. Being in the majority doesn't make someone right. Nationalism isn't even a matter of right or wrong.
I don't accept your division of "Canada first" versus "Quebec first". My family comes first, then my community, then Montreal, then Quebec, then Canada because Quebec is part of Canada. They are not in competition. I have lots of unilingual French relatives. Quebec "nationalism" doesn't necessarily translate into the desire to give the Quebec government more power or the desire to be automatically opted out of federal programs.
