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Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Two Solitudes: Quebecers' Attitudes Regarding Canadian Security and Defence Policy
By Jean-Sébastien Rioux
Abstract
This paper provides much food for thought and suggests additional areas of research into the little explored subject of how much of an impact Canada's ethnic, demographic, and regional composition has on the making of Canadian foreign and defence policy. Rioux quite naturally focuses on the prime dichotomy of Canadian life. That dichotomy is based on the founding of Canada on two linguistic groups — English and French-speaking Canadians — and consists of the efforts of those two groups to live together in one nation. In 2005, the French- English dichotomy is not the only ethnic, religious or linguistic division in Canada, but it remains fundamental.