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Voted : Yes, simply being a province gives immigrants 2 cultures to choose from - 'Quebecois' or 'Canadian'
Simply being a province gives immigrants the choice to integrate into teh more generalised 'Canadian' Anglophone identity. If immigrigants are to integrate into Quebecois society, this would more efficiently be done if Quebec were independent. An independent nation sends a clearer signal relative to a province within a nation of what identity newcoming citizens should be integrating into.
Even some of Quebec's immigrants are anxious about the status of Quebecois culture as not being respected enough as the national culture of Quebec:
"At a workshop held in conjunction with the hearings on Sunday, organizers were surprised to hear from some French-speaking immigrants to Quebec who said their inability to speak English is preventing them from finding work.
"Why am I supposed to speak both languages if it's a French country," said Habib Diab, who immigrated from Lebanon. He said immigrants are not warned that they should know English before coming to Quebec.
"There is a contradiction between what we say and what is the reality into which immigrants are coming," said workshop organizer Michel Vennes.
A Moroccan-born immigrant, Samiri Laouni, came to Quebec with a PhD, having taught at a university in France.
When she arrived in Quebec, she said, she was surprised how much her ability to speak English mattered to every employer who interviewed her.
"It's very difficult for me to that if I am not bilingual — perfectly bilingual — I cannot do anything."
Laouni is now self-employed.
"My English is not very well, as you see. But I try to do my best," she said."
(Source: BBC)
Voted : Yes, simply being a province gives immigrants 2 cultures to choose from - 'Quebecois' or 'Canadian'
So he wants Quebec to be more like France? Good luck with that. 
Quebecois and French culture are completely different things. To imply they are the same is like saying that Australians and British are exactly the same, which is untrue.
Quebecois are much more conservative than the French.
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