the Separatism seminar: the one nationalism in the Québécois soul — "weren’t the losers so much as…"

Hal's deep answer, the seminar's historical thesis: "the one and only nationalism in the Québecois soul is Québecois nationalism" — "Nous v. La Plupart Toujours," Québec never seeing itself "as anything other than hostages of Ottawa and the Anglophone provinces." He reaches back to 1759, "the final surrender on the Plains of Abraham as a kind of forced property-transfer," French-Canadians who "weren't the losers so much as the spoils. Booty." Their hatred of anglophone Canada "transcends anything they could work up against O.N.A.N." — which is why the anti-O.N.A.N. turn "is some sort of anomalous dodge." This is the hinge from which the meta-extortion theory swings: if the old hatred is undiminished, the new one must be instrumental.