{"id":562,"date":"2014-03-24T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T03:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matness.ca\/?p=562"},"modified":"2014-03-25T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T11:06:04","slug":"pour-lamour-des-traits-dunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matness.ca\/fr\/pour-lamour-des-traits-dunion\/","title":{"rendered":"pour l’amour des traits d’union"},"content":{"rendered":"

trait d’union<\/strong> nm
\n<\/em>ce qui sert de lien<\/p>\n

Les traits d’union are less the rage in Qu\u00e9bec than they once were. But there was a time, somewhere between 1981 and 1994, where more than one in every five children born in the land of je me souviens had their parental namesakes forever linked through that tiny little line.<\/p>\n

That number actually seems low to me. I could\u2019ve sworn that my classes were comprised of nothing but kids with unique snowflakes of names. Much to our chagrin, really. Long, bulky, never quite fit for forms and typically tripping the tongues of classmates and teachers alike.<\/p>\n

I often dismissed, and maybe sometimes still do, the Murphy half of my roots. This wasn’t so much out of a dislike for my Irish Atlantic-Canadian heritage, but more about camouflage. The truth is, it’s easier to get by in Qu\u00e9bec with a name like Perron than one like Murphy. And that p’tit hyphen kept me linked to the Anglo side I was ever too eager to hide.<\/p>\n

Of course, it never quite worked. I could never be French enough. I would never be pure laine. To my French family and networks, I was a forever bloke<\/a>. Name masking, ponytails and excessive facial hair fooled no one. My oft-changing and generally unplacable accent would always other me.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, I remain the go-to French guy for Anglo friends inside and outside Qu\u00e9bec. A role I’ve fondly accepted, despite relentless teasing over my inability to say three.<\/p>\n

Almost<\/em> fitting into both worlds is nice, sure, and honestly, it’s likely been wildly advantageous, but some days it would have been swell to simply feel wholly accepted by either.<\/p>\n

We’re often talking about les deux solitudes within Qu\u00e9bec. Les Anglais and the French. This narrative obviously omits Indigenous peoples and many racialised allophone communities. What of those that live ephemerally and interchangeably between both, or outside entirely? Where do they belong? How to transition from solitudes to solidarity?<\/p>\n

This past Friday, Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire<\/a> candidate in Saint-Henri\u2013Sainte-Anne Molly Alexander <\/a>wrote on the seeming oxymoron that is a sovereignist Anglophone<\/a>. She writes, \u00ab\u00a0If we don\u2019t take our future into our own hands, others will: the oil industry, financial elite, media moguls \u2014 take your pick. Instead, let\u2019s have the debate \u2014 Anglophones, Francophones and Allophones together \u2014 and build something that we can all be proud to call our own.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

The corporate, political and media oligarchy loves to keep us divided, fearful and at each other’s throats. There\u2019s an army of Angryphones<\/a> out there ready to speak of their \u00ab\u00a0oppression\u00a0\u00bb despite it being substantially easier to be an Anglophone in Qu\u00e9bec than a Francophone in the RoC<\/a>, the infamous xenophobic PQ charter of \u00ab\u00a0values\u00a0\u00bb has sparked\u00a0disturbing increases in violence against Muslim women<\/a>, and it seems every day inspires a new quasi-apocalyptic linguistic or cultural scandal.<\/p>\n

This hypertense political landscape leaves many feeling alone, unwanted and at times genuinely fearful for their physical safety. Sure, much of this may be projections of personal insecurities, amplifications of media sensationalism, or uneasiness rooted from isolated incidents of nasty bigotry, but whatever the causes, it’s there, and it pushes many people away from a home they otherwise quite like.<\/p>\n

The nasty cyclical tug-of-war between those screaming evil separatists and those screaming evil federalists keeps us socially stagnant. The only two parties to have shared power over the last four decades know full well that they can rely on these tired simplistic fights to drum up their base in the proverbial march towards a majority. During any given election campaign, it would appear that voters are more concerned by whether a party is #TeamCanada or #\u00c9quipeQu\u00e9bec than by the erosion of our social services, precarious labour markets, urban decay, rural flight, or a platitude of other urgent social and environmental issues that requires the rejection of failed neoliberal policies and a drastic reimagining of how our political affairs are handled. Unless voters shift their votes (and expand their definition of civic engagement) towards these issues instead of that of the maligned or revered Referendum, we\u2019ll be stuck with more of the same humdrum lot that profits off of the divisive poison they inject into our collective consciousness.<\/p>\n

I reject the notion that people can only be one thing. A plurality of identities layered within us guide us through our daily actions and affirmations. The Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois identity, including the notion of Qu\u00e9bec as a sovereign state, is not reserved to a single demographic. Qu\u00e9bec Solidaire understands that, and I believe that’s why we are witnessing an increase of Anglophones and Allophones supporting the party after decades of rejection and exploitation from the PQ and the Liberals.<\/p>\n

Hyphens strengthen. They forge links. They acknowledge that identities intersect and build upon one another. There is beauty and power within them. I will no longer reject the ties that made me. Hyphens are unions. And l’union fait la force.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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