As a child, my impression of Quebec was not very flattering. Firstly, there’s the whole French thing. Secondly was the “fact” that, in my mind, the only thing holding the USA back from our inevitable unseating of the Soviet Union as the largest nation (in area) in the world were those crazy French speakers preventing the rest of Canada from becoming our 51st state. Needless to say, I didn’t know many Canadians.

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