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Robin S. Gendron. Towards a Francophone Community.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Robin S. Gendron. Towards a Francophone Community. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006. 191 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $75.00 hc.

Robin Gendron's Towards a Francophone Community chronicles the complicated relations between the Canadian government and the French-speaking world in the years following the Second World War. As Quebec began to establish international relations of its own in the 1960s, it became embroiled with the federal government in a protracted struggle over who could claim the right to legitimately represent French Canadians internationally. And for a while--much to the dismay of officials in Ottawa--Quebec appeared to be winning. Quebec nationalists had long argued, Gendron states, that Quebec needed to forge international relations of its own in the 1960s because of the federal government's long-standing neglect of French-speaking countries, a neglect which cut Quebec off from relations which it deemed to be of crucial cultural significance. For Gendron, this argument--which...

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