History has not been very clear on the basis of those who continue to call themselves Canadien, Quebecois of canadienne-francaise, but there are good reasons for this ploy. First of all consider the fact that the Anglo-French Treaty of Paris of February 10, 1763, not only ceded New France to Great Britain, but also its Habitant inhabitants. Of course those that chose to leave were permitted to do so, but by and large France only took those who were of French blood and not those of mixed origins. Note well that the last Governor of New France, Pierre de Rigaud de Vaudreuil de Cavagnial, marquis de Vaudreuil who surrendered New France and other French possessions in North America to the British commander Brigadier-General Jeffrey Amherst on September 8, 1760, returned to France, because both his parents were immigrants from France, and thus he was considered French.
Thus like it or not all the Habitants (Metis) abandoned by France were now British subjects, and were now living in the British province of Quebec, as the name of New France had been changed. But looking at things as they stood, these Habitants were actually living under sufferance and should have been grateful to the British for generosity. It should also be remembered that Great Britain had given them some special rights under the "Quebec Act of 1774," which in fact treated these new British subjects (Habitants), much better than British subjects in the American colonies. The Quebec Act of 1774, not only granted them the right to practice their Roman Catholic religion, but also gave the Roman Catholic Church in Quebec the right to tithe (la dime). This right to tithing was not accorded to any Protestant denomination in the American colonies, with the exception of the Church of England. To think that Great Britain had the Habitant butchers and rapists of Schenectady, Deerfield, Oswego and Fort William Henry all these privileges while American colonists who died defending British colonies were treated like lepers.
It was these policies which alienated the American colonists, and in fact it was the intolerable acts, which included the Quebec Act, along with the suspension of Habeas Corpus that really incensed them. General James Murray and the British army was hard pressed and outnumbered by the French forces under Brigadier-General Chevalier Marechal de Levis at the second battle of Quebec (Saint-Foy) on April 28, 1760
When the sudden appearance of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the Royal American Regiment (60th Regt. Of Foot), and members of Hazen's and Rogers' Rangers came to their rescue. These American soldiers not only saved General James Murray and the British army from certain defeat, but also gave them time to withdraw safely to Quebec City, thus saving the whole of British America from French conquest. It was also at Saint-Foy that the Royal American Regiment received its motto: "Celer et Audax" (Swift and Brave). The Quebec Act was the last straw and final insult to the American colonies, and it now lit the fires of the coming Revolution. If Colonel Francis Smith and his Redcoat regulars from Boston had not shot and killed those eight Minutemen at the Massachusetts company gunpowder storage depot at Lexington Green, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, the flames of the American Revolution might never have been lit, and total war with the mother country might never have taken place.
Even at period in history people like Edmund Burke was able to say:
"My hold on the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common causes, from kindred blood, which from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron."
Or the words of former British Prime Minister William Pitt, Earl of Chatham:
"If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never--never--never!"
If the negotiations between the British government and the representatives of the American colonies had continued in a peaceable manner who knows how the issue would have ended? But as that great thinker and brave Englishman Thomas Paine said: after the Lexington massacre all chances of a peaceful settlement with the mother country had ended. Thus began a war that ended with the defeat of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia, on October 17, 1781.
While hostilities between the British and American forces ceased on November 30, 1782, negotiations were being carried out on a diplomatic level in Paris, France. The representatives of the 13 American colonies and the British government discussed the terms of the Anglo-American Treaty of Versailles. American commissioners John Jay and Benjamin Franklin requested in late August 1783, that British government as an act of good faith cede the province of Quebec to the fledgling United States of America, but the British representatives flatly refused their request. Thus the Anglo-American Treaty of Versailles was signed on September 8, 1783, and the cancer that was Quebec then, still exists in Canada at the present time. In February 1907, U.S. President again offered to buy Canada from Great Britain, but was again refused. Had the British government ceded Quebec to the U.S. in 1783, there might have been one United States of America on the North American continent, and Canada might well have ended up as a pipe dream of the Quebecois.
Besides this, the Canadiens refused to join the Americans in their revolution against British rule. Benjamin Franklin accompanies by Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland, arrived in Montreal in January 1776, but were not welcomed by the Canadiens, who felt that the Quebec Act of 1774, gave them many more privileges than the American revolutionaries would. Added to this were the anti-American feelings of the canadiens, which became even more evident when Roman Catholic bishops in Quebec ordered that any Canadienne who married an American revolutionary soldier would be excommunicated immediately.
The same Canadien enemy of yesteryear used the advantage of the Quebec Act of 1774 to gradually take over English-speaking Canada. They then went on to seek a privileged status for provincial support of Roman Catholic schools at Confederation in 1867, and then used other privileges to take over English-speaking Canada, one province at a time. These descendants of the Habitant (Metis) also demanded that their Joual language be given equal status with English everywhere in English-speaking Canada, at the same time passing laws within the province of Quebec outlawing English as a legal language and banning its use in Quebec on signs and in the workplace 200 years after the Quebec Act of 1774.
Thus the Quebec Act of 1774 became a stranglehold around the neck of English-speaking Canada, wringing it for all it was worth. Millions upon millions of Dollars of taxpayer's money from the hard-working people of English-speaking Canada is now being spent on building special schools, hospitals, and community and business centers for the promotion of Canadien (Metis) culture in the English-speaking provinces of Canada. But the reason for this is that the purse-strings of the federal government of Canada are dominated by the Quebecois. While at the same time there is no money available for the building of schools, hospitals, community centers etc. for the English-speaking community in English-speaking Canada, but still plenty of money available for the Canadian (Metis) community to squander. Again as we can see English-speaking Canadians are being robbed of their tax Dollars to help pay for all the perks that the Canadien (Metis) minority demand.
From 1968 onwards Canada has been ruled arbitrarily, because of deliberate misconception created by a Canadien who became Prime Minister in April that year, that in order for one to be Prime Minister one had to be bilingual that is speak English and Joual (French patois), but it only applied to English-speaking Canadians, not Canadiens who spoke Joual and could not speak English properly. Thus, even though the majority of Canadians were English-speaking, the minority Joual-speaking Canadiens (Metis) called the shots. But there was also another factor that was not fair, and that is that from 1968 to onwards Prime Ministers came mainly from Quebec and were Roman Catholics, till now. That has changed since Protestant from Ontario was elected Prime Minister of Canada. No American would tolerate the idea that one state in the union should be allowed to dominate the country, by having most of their presidents not only come from that state, but also belong to a certain religious affiliation.
Just consider how a Quebecois Prime Minister of Canada named Pierre-Elliott Trudeau brought in a National Energy Programme that only applied to Western Canada, and which taxes Alberta for its energy, which is oil, yet does not tax Quebec for its Hydro-Electric energy from James Bay, New Quebec, and Churchill Falls, Labrador. This really goes to show the double standards that are at work in Canada. Beyond that, is how the federal government of Canada has created huge national debt by giving all kinds of perks to Quebec and slowly but surely making English-speaking Canada bankrupt?
I now hearken back to history and quote the American Revolutionary Thomas Paine:
"Government even in its best state, is necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise."
There is also the question of who actually runs the Canadian Immigration Service overseas. It is where mainly Joual-speaking people are employed to run the Canadian Immigration Service Department in Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. These minions do everything in their power to limit the control of immigrants from the above English-speaking countries to Canada, by finding reasons not to issue a valid immigration visa to them. This is a means of discrimination used by Candiens on English-speaking people wanting to immigrate to Canada. At the same time there is a requirement by the Canadian Immigration Service that persons applying for an immigrant visa must have some knowledge of English or Joual (French patois). But of course the Quebec government which runs its own immigration service, from Canadian Legations abroad, requires that immigrants who want to immigrate to Quebec must have some knowledge of Joual (French patois) to obtain an immigrant visa, but there is absolutely no requirement to have any knowledge of the English language.
The American people should recall how Canadien Prime Minister Jean Chretien named his nephew Raymond Chretien a Quebecois who was not English-speaking as Canadian Ambassador to the United States of America, the largest English-speaking country in the world. I wonder if the same Jean Chretien would have named an English-speaking person as Canadian Ambassador to France. Ambassador Raymond Chretien committed a diplomatic faux pas by publicly stating that he was in favour of the Democrats winning the 200 Presidential Elections. After that Canadian Ambassador Raymond Chretien was soon moved from his post in Washington, DC to Paris, France as Ambassador there. His removal might have been made at the behest of the U.S. government for his undiplomatic behaviour and breach of protocol.
It is today that we seek the support and aid of our American brethren of yesteryear against our common enemy of old, who now have visions of building a New France on the soil of North America. The time has now come for a common effort to be made in defeating their pipe dream of creating a Metis nation on these shores., and that had Great Britain ceded the province of Quebec to the U.S. as part of the Anglo-American Treaty of Versailles of September 8,1783, we would not be discussing this issue at the present time.
