the F.L.Q. defined: Québec as U.S. territory-in-fact
Le Front de la Libération de la Québec, rather a younger and rowdier and less implacably businesslike cell than the A.F.R., and symbolically adopting certain cultural customs, musics and motifs associated with Hawaii, supposedly an ironic nod to the idea that Québec is now, too, a kind of annex or territory of the U.S., a Canadian province only on paper, and separated from its real captor-nation by distances of space and culture that are unbridgeable.
Context
The F.L.Q. defined against the A.F.R. and carrying the theme's sharpest self-diagnosis: "younger and rowdier and less implacably businesslike," the F.L.Q. adopts "Hawaii" motifs as "an ironic nod to the idea that Québec is now, too, a kind of annex or territory of the U.S., a Canadian province only on paper, and separated from its real captor-nation by distances of space and culture that are unbridgeable." The Hawaii-joke encodes the whole grievance: post-Reconfiguration Québec is effectively a U.S. possession, Canada its captor "only on paper" — the insurgency's own reading of who really holds it. (i-s took the "ironic-Hawaii" register; landed here is the territory-politics.)