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A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec

Canadian society is now marked by a growing vocalization of a distinct identity. Politicians promote this identity to overcome tensions that remain, due to a failure to reconcile institutionally the often-contradictory claims that emanate from a plural society. We explore one aspect of these tension...

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Glavni autori:	Nimijean, Richard, Trépanier, Anne
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:	Anglais
Izdano:	Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies 2016
Teme:	Québec Canada identité nationale dualité symboles Quebec identity duality symbols
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spelling	openedition-oai:revues.org:eccs_485 https://doi.org/10.4000/eccs.485 urn:doi:10.4000/eccs.485 en https://journals.openedition.org/eccs/485 2016-01-21T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/ff7e All rights reserved A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies Association française des études canadiennes (AFEC) info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4667 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0153-1700 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/eccs Nimijean, Richard Trépanier, Anne Québec Canada identité nationale dualité symboles Quebec Canada identity duality symbols Canadian society is now marked by a growing vocalization of a distinct identity. Politicians promote this identity to overcome tensions that remain, due to a failure to reconcile institutionally the often-contradictory claims that emanate from a plural society. We explore one aspect of these tensions: the decline of duality and a questioning of Québec’s place in Canada. While there has been a symbolic rearticulation of the importance of Québec in the new “Brand Canada,” this has not been accompanied by a corresponding “doing” of duality, thus not satisfying nationalist pressures in Québec. Symbolic and rhetorical strategies are often employed to deal with public opinion that resists dualism. As we demonstrate in the case of the new (2013) Canadian passport, the Harper government has chosen to symbolically address Québec’s claims; however, this reduces Québec to a historical part of the Canadian identity puzzle. While political pressures may be temporarily addressed, the historic pressures that inform debates about the Canadian identity are likely to continue. C’est un nouveau patriotisme canadien qui se fait entendre au Canada. Les hommes politiques semblent valoriser cette re-définition identitaire pour dépasser les tensions qui subsistent au sein du pays qui n’arrive pas à réconcilier les revendications souvent contradictoires des sociétés multiples qui le composent et qui mettent en péril l’unité. Nous explorons ici un des aspects de ces tensions : le déclin de la formule de la dualité et la ré-articulation de l'importance du Québec dans la rhétorique identitaire canadienne. Bien que l’on note une réintégration symbolique de la place du Québec dans cette nouvelle « image de marque » du Canada, cette démarche n’a pas été suivie d’actions pour prendre en compte l’origine historique de la dualité entre les deux sociétés, ce qui ne satisfait pas les demandes nationalistes au Québec. Des stratégies symboliques et rhétoriques ont été mises en place pour apaiser le grand public qui n’accepte pas que l’on fasse disparaître la dualité. Comme nous allons le démontrer en étudiant le cas du nouveau passeport canadien (2013), le gouvernement Harper a choisi de prendre en compte symboliquement les demandes du Québec. Cependant, cette politique minimise la part du Québec dans l’histoire du Canada en la réduisant à une simple portion du puzzle identitaire. Si Harper a réussi à apaiser temporairement les tensions politiques, les tensions identitaires liées à l’histoire des deux nations sont loin d’avoir disparu.
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spellingShingle	Québec Canada identité nationale dualité symboles Quebec Canada identity duality symbols Nimijean, Richard Trépanier, Anne A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
description	Canadian society is now marked by a growing vocalization of a distinct identity. Politicians promote this identity to overcome tensions that remain, due to a failure to reconcile institutionally the often-contradictory claims that emanate from a plural society. We explore one aspect of these tensions: the decline of duality and a questioning of Québec’s place in Canada. While there has been a symbolic rearticulation of the importance of Québec in the new “Brand Canada,” this has not been accompanied by a corresponding “doing” of duality, thus not satisfying nationalist pressures in Québec. Symbolic and rhetorical strategies are often employed to deal with public opinion that resists dualism. As we demonstrate in the case of the new (2013) Canadian passport, the Harper government has chosen to symbolically address Québec’s claims; however, this reduces Québec to a historical part of the Canadian identity puzzle. While political pressures may be temporarily addressed, the historic pressures that inform debates about the Canadian identity are likely to continue.
author	Nimijean, Richard Trépanier, Anne
author_facet	Nimijean, Richard Trépanier, Anne
author_sort	Nimijean, Richard
title	A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
title_short	A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
title_full	A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
title_fullStr	A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
title_full_unstemmed	A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec
title_sort	passport to identity: the decline of duality and the symbolic appropriation of québec
publisher	Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies
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A Passport to Identity: The Decline of Duality and the Symbolic Appropriation of Québec

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