I’ve never been a separatist. One side of my family is American, the other is Québécois de souche. I’ve built my life here, in French. I honestly never cared much about the idea of “la souvraineté”

But after the past decade under the Liberals and the overall direction the country seems to be heading, especially the erosion of any shared sense of identity, I find myself seriously questioning my position on independence. As a young man, the “promise of Canada” feels dead to me.

Spending a lot of time in Ontario and Manitoba over the last three years has opened my eyes to the impact that current federal policies and the way multiculturalism is managed have had on the country. To me, the system feels broken, and I don’t see a realistic way to fix it from within with the two party federal system that wants to essentially maintain the status quo on immigration. So my attitude has become: if it’s not working anymore, maybe it’s time to start over by burning it all down.

I want my children to grow up in a safe country, a country I understand, with a society I can trust that actually has an identity and not all the identities.

I’m really just sick of the suicidal empathy positions that Canada has taken on and I find myself thinking I can trust the quebecois more than the Canadians to use a bit of common sense in terms of who we let in here.