Having ruined the economy, vilified our history and extinguished patriotism, the prime minister has undermined the argument for a united Canada

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Do you want to be Canadian? Quebecers may get to choose if the Parti Québécois wins the 2026 provincial election, as PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who is currently leading in the polls, has pledged to hold a referendum on sovereignty if he becomes premier.

Polls suggest that roughly one in three Quebecers would vote to leave Canada. But federalists should not get too comfortable, as this is around the same proportion of Quebecers who indicated they would support sovereignty in 1994, only for the province to reject it by less than one per cent a year later.

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Does Canada still have the same appeal almost 30 years later?

Everything in Canada feels like it’s in decline. Health-care wait lists are tortuously long, car thefts have skyrocketed, inflation has ravaged the country, the economy is unproductive and housing is unaffordable. Meanwhile, our public institutions have been doing their utmost to weaken Canadian identity and tamp down patriotism.

“Je me souviens” (“I remember”) is the official motto of Quebec, and a call for Quebecers not to forget their unique heritage. Would this nation, as they are recognized by the Government of Canada, have any interest in remaining part of a declining country that appears eager to reject its own history and to despise its founders?

Surely, Quebec cannot avoid the spread of the “post-national state,” as described by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which rejects Canadian identity. Whatever its original intent, the “post-national state” has become author Yann Martel’s grotesque notion of........

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