Québecker

plural Québeckers

1. alternativeAlternative form of Quebecer.

   Blais and Nadeau report that even as francophone Québeckers define themselves first as Québeckers, they feel some attachment to Canada.

   1996, Ines C. Molinaro, “Democracy and the Reconstitution of Canada”, in Alan Ware, editor, Democracy and North America, London; Portland, Or.: Frank Cass, →ISBN, page 103

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   Irreconcilable ethnocultural claims are perhaps posed most acutely by the confrontation in claims of francophone Québeckers and First Nations people within the province of Québec.

   1995, Daiva Stasiulis, Radha Jhappan, “The Fractious Politics of a Settler Society: Canada”, in Daiva Stasiulis, Nira Yuval-Davis, editors, Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class (Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations; volume 11), SAGE Publications, page 120

   It is no disrespect to non-Québeckers to deny them authority in a decision as to whether Québec forms an independent state. But it would be an injustice to Québeckers to give non-Québeckers authority in a decision as to Québec independence or to deny authority to Québeckers.

   1997, David Copp, “Democracy and Communal Self-Determination”, in Robert McKim, Jeff McMahan, editors, The Morality of Nationalism, New York, N.Y.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 296