Es gibt eine Kluft zwischen jungen Menschen in Quebec und im Rest Kanadas
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/theres-a-happiness-gap-between-young-people-in-quebec-and-in-the-rest-of-canada/
Es gibt eine Kluft zwischen jungen Menschen in Quebec und im Rest Kanadas
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/theres-a-happiness-gap-between-young-people-in-quebec-and-in-the-rest-of-canada/
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Quebecois have become a privileged class in Canada due to the safeguards put in place to maintain Francophone employment and power in the government. Close to $14 Billion a year in “equalization” payments to Quebec aren’t creating equality to compared to other provinces. They’re transferring happiness into Quebec by reducing it elsewhere.
But this isn’t all about Quebec, this situation is mostly the result of Federal government decisions not the Quebec Provincial government. Quebec is largely doing for their citizens what the Federal government should be doing for everyone else.
Quebec is still relatively affordable compared to the rest of Canada (though that’s unfortunately rapidly changed in the last few years) and got hit by the housing bubble later and less severely. They’re also sheltered from a lot of the anglosphere’s bullshit, 24/7 sensationalist broadcasts, and doom-and-gloom in the media since they primarily speak French and have strong local media sources and culture.
On top of that, places like Montreal are just very pleasant cities to live in and Quebecers embrace the joie de vivre lifestyle. The city constantly has public festivals and art, it’s very walkable with cute neighbourhoods, there are lots of things to do, the food/bar/cafe scene is fantastic, there’s lots of fun nightlife, etc. People there are also very active, love chilling in the park, spending time with friends, and prefer to eat locally which creates stronger communities, social trust, and networks.
As on Ontarian in Quebec for the past ~10 years, one stark difference here is that Quebecois tend to have a strong sense of identity and real community.
Quebec takes so much money from the rest of all Canadians to subsidize what it has.
Canadians are penalized so that Quebec can have its culture and lower prices.
Redistribute the wealth to the people making the money and things will improve.
So much for the post-nationalists!
Oh look, a Québecois identity has defended them, while the rest of Canada, „there is no Canadiana, and you should be ashamed of your colonial history, even though you were the destination for the underground railroad“.
Ffs…
One thing that cannot be understated here is that Quebec doesn’t have hyper-segregated ethnic suburbs like the rest of Canada, and they did not use foreign student visas as a substitute for proper college & university funding like most of Canada did. When the number of student visas was peaking in 2022 and 2023, [Quebec had the highest proportion of foreign Master’s & Doctorate students in the country, and the lowest proportion of foreign college students.](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710016304)
A big part of what’s broken the social contract was the influx of low-skill foreign workers under the guise of student visas, even though they have no intention of working in their field of study and they’re often taking sham courses at shady private schools or privately-run „partnership“ campuses. Quebec’s government did not break their social contract to provide more low-wage workers, and this is a part of why they’re less unhappy with the state of their society.