Canada exists because a Quebec elite going back to Champlain 
have managed through guile, power, cultural sovereignity, intention,
and manipulation to survive centuries of threats to their existance.

Quebecers have a genius for survival and do it without conceding
anything which would diminish their power to survive ... Which of
course means maintaining the balance of power in the Federation.

Late comers to Canada never understood the power and wealth
Quebecers amassed in North America long before most major political events occurred in the New World.

French Canada has never ever been a have not society, region,
colony, or province.

If readers truly want to understand contemporary events in Canada
then read your history. Not the received contrivance one gets
in schools. But the real history. Canadians know only a story book
version. 

Canadians think realpolitik only exists south of the border. Wrong!

Richelieu and Talleyrand were both French. Survival is in the blood.