Meaning of Quebecker | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of Quebecer.

Canada, alt-of, alternative

Examples

“Gouanvic’s SF: Dix années de science-fiction québécoise (Montréal, 1988; “Autres mers, autres mondes” series) is a competent anthology of ten high-point strories. In the same year Gouanvic also published in the same series Dérives 5 (Montréal, 1988), another francophone anthology; of the five stories, which all seem to focus⟳ on the perversion of social power, those by two of the four Québéckers represented, Jean Pettigrew and Esther Rochon, are particularly fine.”

“I ended up in Québec. And I did think⟳ I could help⟳. I did think⟳ English Québéckers were getting a bum deal⟳.”

“Or as Ouali, 20 years old, who arrived in Canada from Algeria only 11 months before we began the workshops in Saint-Michel, describes: “Arabs, Haitians, Québéckers, and South Americans play⟳ together”.”

“Irreconcilable ethnocultural claims are perhaps posed most acutely by the confrontation in claims of francophone Québeckers and First Nations people within the province of Québec.”

“Blais and Nadeau report⟳ that even as francophone Québeckers define⟳ themselves first as Québeckers, they feel⟳ some attachment to Canada.”

“It is no disrespect to non-Québeckers to deny⟳ them authority in a decision as to whether Québec forms an independent state. But it would be an injustice to Québeckers to give⟳ non-Québeckers authority in a decision as to Québec independence or to deny⟳ authority to Québeckers.”

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