the Separatism primer: the Convexity gerrymander turned the terror south
It was the establishment of O.N.A.N. and the gerrymandering of the Great Convexity (Poutrincourt’s Canadian, recall) that turned the malevolent attention of Québec’s worst post-F.L.N. insurgents south of the border. Ontario and New Brunswick took the continental Anschluss and territorial Reconfiguration like good sports.
Context
The primer's causal spine, and the theme's central political fact: it was "the establishment of O.N.A.N. and the gerrymandering of the Great Convexity" — the word "gerrymandering" naming the gift as a rigged border — "that turned the malevolent attention" of the Québec cells "south of the border." The Reconfiguration is the "continental Anschluss," and the crucial detail is selective grievance: Ontario and New Brunswick absorb it "like good sports" (Alberta's far-right displeasure stays fringe), and only Québec "completely lost their political shit." The insurgency is not general anti-O.N.A.N. feeling but a specifically Québécois wound, which is what makes it a national question rather than a regional one.