Canadians Dept: Or, rather, should we be relieved that 39 per cent identified themselves as "Quebecers first" but "also Canadians?", according to Montreal Gazette. Is your head aching yet and should we be worried about the fact that 31 per cent of recently polled Quebec residents defined themselves as "exclusively" Quebecers? Now, in case we take some federalist comfort from that second statistic, the journalist I read reminds us that these results mean that more than 60 per cent of Quebec residents define themselves as "Quebecers first or exclusively." We are told that this represents an increase since January 2009, when only 54 per cent of Quebecers identified themselves as "Quebecers first or only." As
reported in the news.
@t quebec residents, montreal gazette
20.1.11