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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Maybe we could state something similar about Alsace or Corsica or Pays Basque. Vis a vis France.
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Absolutely not. This is like comparing polar bears and Swiss chocolate.
More than 16% of the population in Alsace was born in the rest of France. And in Corsica more than 30% of the population was born in the rest of France. In the French Basque Country it's even higher (ancestral Basques are now a minority in the French Basque Country).
Absolutely nothing comparable in Québec. The average Frenchman is far, far more likely to live at some point in their life in Alsace, Corsica, or French Basque Country than the average Anglo-Canadian is ever likely to live in Québec. Ditto for vacationing in Alsace, Corsica, or French Basque Country. These parts of France are also far more culturally integrated with the rest of France than Québec with the rest of Canada (how often do people in Toronto or Calgary eat poutine, if they even know that such a thing exists, compared to basically every Frenchman that has eaten at least once Alsatian choucroute, which is a favorite dish everywhere in France? this is just one example).
Not to mention that social security and pensions are the same, whether one works in Strasbourg, Ajaccio, Bayonne, Paris, or Lyon, it's all the same. School system is also exactly the same. Courts are exactly the same. And France is a far smaller country than Canada where people actually drive from one end of the country to the other end, whereas how many Anglo-Canadians ever drove across Québec as opposed to just flying above it?