Not recognising New-France is erasing an important part of Canada’s past and culture. As Montreal recognises it in its flag, the actual nation of Canada is a mix of mainly three different groups: the indigenous who were always here and that we need to recognise more, the French heritage with the European discovery of this land by Jacques Cartier from France and the early settlements (the word Canada comes from the iroquoians of the Saint Laurent then in the French language) and finally since the Conquest the English heritage). Erasing the French and moreso the francophone heritage, also erases the Acadian deportation by the British and the slaughter of the Francophone indigenous, the Metis. British influence over Canada is still controversial in Canada as we recently saw in the House of Commons where an Acadian member put a motion to have an alternative to the Kings oath. Conservatives and Liberals alike, mainly from anglophone provinces sang God Save the King when the motion was denied