Thank you, Eric Blais! Too often, francophone Canada is seen (variously) as outside the mainstream, foreign, insignificant, etc. The french speaking population of Canada is around 22%. That is not foreign or insignificant. It's a huge, integral part of who we are. Francophones are as or more numerous than "Westerners" (depending on whether or not you can group BC with the Prairie Provinces).

Francophones for many generations had second class status in Canada and have much more reason to be touchy about their place in the culture than Westerners. But somehow, the Quebecois are considered whiny or "entitled" whereas  the West is just asking for justified redress.

I say this as an anglophone outside Quebec.