Talk:Quebec diaspora
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The second exodus article is not neutral at all.
I reinserted the very relevant text on the Second Exodus that was removed by: User:Mathieugp 06:50, February 1, 2007 - Note the text is based, without copyright infringment, on the information from the Government of Canada's CBC website as seen in the references provided. Phinius T2 17:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
- This is totally ridiculous. There is no "first" and "second" Quebec exodus. You are literally making something up. These are two different phenomenons. In the worst case, there should be a disambiguation page. Better would be to properly name what some partisan media have named the "Anglo Exodus".
- The subject of the article is the Quebec diaspora, created by the exodus of the 1840-1930 period. This is a diaspora because the said migrating population left Quebec, Canada for New England, United States.
- The Canadians who, in the 1960s-1980s period, moved from one province (Quebec, Maritime provinces, Saskatchewan) of what they considered their country to another booming province (Ontario and Alberta) of what they also consider their country are not a diaspora. That would be the first diaspora in the world that does not experience integration into a new, foreign society.
- The sentence "according to Statistics Canada (2003), since 1971 saw a drop of 599,000 of those Quebecers whose mother tongue was English. [4]" is pure lie. As I pointed out in this talk page, the Website of the CBC contains a factual mistake on this. In the said talk page, I wrote "The CBC source contains a factually wrong statement which Phinius T2 repeats in this article. It says "The same stats show that the population of those whose mother tongue is English has dropped from 789,000 in 1971 to 190,000 in 1996." That is such bad journalism it's not even funny. Anyone can see for themselves on StatsCan that the number of Quebecers who claimed English as mother in 1996 was 614 372 and 557 040 in 2001. Talk about misinformation!" This factual error remains a factual error today.
- The subject of the "exodus" of Quebecers to Ontario, in the 1960s-1980s period, in a great number English-speaking, deserves to be fully covered in its own article. The English-speaking Quebecer article already contains the beginning of an article on this but it is only showing a part of it. The stats on the interprovincial migrations (in and out) for all Quebec residents, Francophones, Anglophones and Allophones, by home language and native language are available on line here: http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/ressources/bibliotheque/sociolinguistique/oqlf_faslin_01_f_20050519.pdf
- The can probably be manually compiled from the Website of Statistics Canada as well. -- Mathieugp 23:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
