Building on three Quebec scenes that are seemingly independent from one another, this article intends to think the durée (“duration”) of the onto-political colonial and racial structure constitutive of the imagined and desired national space in formation since the project called New-France. First, thinking with Pierre Coriolan’s death and Sindy Ruperthouse’s disappearance, the contemporary mechanisms of colonial and racial violence are examined as the reconfiguration of what precedes, that is, slavery and genocidal colonization. Second, the racialized ontological antagonisms and relational positions in the Americas are considered in the specific context of Quebec, to then locate within them the figure of the Arab-Muslim threat that the third scene, the scandal that followed a prayer in a cabane à sucre, unfolds. This figure is itself to be located within orientalism’s and Islamophobia’s durée, but also to be examined for what it does to the durée, maintaining it future-oriented.