Concept
Quebec
Overview
Quebec (French: Québec) is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, it is the only Francophone-majority province in the country, being home to Québécois French. It shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border with the territory of Nunavut. In the south, it shares a border with the United States. Quebec has a population of around eight million, making it Canada's second-most populous province behind Ontario.
Between 1534 and 1763, what is now Quebec was the French colony of Canada and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Canada became a British colony, first as the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then Lower Canada (1791–1841), and lastly part of the Province of Canada (1841–1867) as a result of the Lower Canada Rebellion. It was confederated with Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867. Until the early 1960s, the Catholic Church played a large role in the social and cultural institutions in Quebec. However, the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s to 1980s increased the role of the Government of Quebec in l'État québécois (the public authority of Quebec).
The Government of Quebec functions within the context of a Westminster system and is both a liberal democracy and a constitutional monarchy. The Premier of Quebec is head of government. Independence debates have played a large role in Quebec politics. Quebec society's cohesion and specificity is based on three of its unique statutory documents: the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, the Charter of the French Language, and the Civil Code of Quebec. Furthermore, unlike elsewhere in Canada which uses a purely common-law system, law in Quebec is mixed: private law is exercised under a civil law system, while public law is exercised under a common-law system.
The economy of Quebec is mainly supported by its large service sector and varied industrial sector. For exports, it leans on the key industries of aeronautics, hydroelectricity, mining, pharmaceuticals, aluminum, wood, and paper. Quebec is well known for producing maple syrup, for its comedy, and for making ice hockey one of the most popular sports in Canada. Also renowned for its distinct culture, the province produces literature, music, films, TV shows, festivals, and more.
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Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Quebec is.
The French colony of Canada was, during the greater part of the last century, and some part of the present, under the government of an exclusive company. Under so unfavourable administration, its progress was necessarily very slow, in comparison with that of other new colonies; but it became much more rapid when this company was dissolved, after the fall of what is called the Mississippi scheme. When the English got…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Quebec is.
The princely privileges of the landed proprietors and cities were transformed into so many attributes of the Executive power; the feudal dignitaries into paid office-holders; and the confusing design of conflicting mediæval seigniories, into the well regulated plan of a government, work is subdivided and centralized as in the factory. The first French revolution, having as a mission to sweep away all local…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Close in meaning to Quebec; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Quebec
- Murray Bookchin
- Jean-François Lyotard
- Jews
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Zenon Pylyshyn
- Charles De Koninck
- Emil Fackenheim
Related ideas
- Fall of Constantinople
- French language
- Washington, D.C.
- Greek language
- Geology
- Haiti
- Hong Kong
- Expansionism
- Inuit
- New France
- Laissez-faire
- Kyoto Protocol
- London
- Los Angeles
- Beijing
- Mexico City
- Seven Years' War
- Munich
- Seoul
- Mumbai
- Great Depression
- Mandarin Chinese
- American Revolution
- Nobel Prize
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy in Canada.