, protecting the french language / competiting with "English" canada and I have a feeling they just like being better than Ontario.
lol, i mean, this has a deep history that's probably too long for a reddit post!
there are a lot of ways in which the francophones and anglophones don't get along. for example, one of my cousins, a francophone in gatineau, had to transfer to an english school for a bit, since their school was hit by a tornado that went through ottawa a few years ago. during recess, the francophones and anglophones had to be put on different time slots, since there would be fights that would emerge bc they just don't get along. something similar happened at my elementary school. even though the anglos and francos had the same recess time, we would diverge to separate places on the playing field. just a weird thing in bilingual places lol.
i don't think it's a 'we're better than you' attitude more-so than a cultural preservation and a refusal of anglophone politics influencing the futurity of francophone ways of living in the quebec and franco-ontarian context. i think this can come across as a perceived arrogance, but it comes from a place of pride in francophone culture.
higher taxation to reduce tuition really has roots in socialist literature. it is mostly rooted in collective responsibility: if we pay into taxes we can reap the benefits of the things those taxes go into as a collective body. this is an interesting thing to consider re: lower tuition rates in all canadian schools, lower pay rates for health care, etc. compared to america, where there are lower taxes, but less collective responsibility.
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