It is for the Christian religion
and the life of free Canada."
"Well, then," says the gentle reader, of a sociological turn of
mind, who has followed me thus far, "what have you got to say about
the big political problem of Quebec? Is a French-speaking province
a safe factor in the Dominion of Canada, in the British Empire? Why
was Quebec so late in coming into this world war against Germany?"
Dear man, I have nothing whatever to say about what you call the
big political problem of Quebec. I told you that at the beginning.
That is a question for Canada and Great Britain to settle. The
British colonial policy has always been one of the greatest liberality
and fairness, except perhaps in that last quarter of the eighteenth
century, when the madness of a German king and his ministers in
England forced the United States to break away from her, and form
the republic which has now become her most powerful friend.
The perpetuation of a double language within a state, an _enclave_,
undoubtedly carries with it an element of inconvenience and possibly
of danger.
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