If nothing else, there were not 10 provinces at Confederation.
Sean, you may be right, you may be wrong, but the effect of your argument is to disqualify most francophone leftists from consideration as NDP leadership material. I have no idea if Boulerice wants to be NDP leader one day or not, but anyone in his shows will have used that sort of language, without meaning much by it - it's jsut a standard bit of language in the left in this part of Canada.