#quebecer

[whoopsyeahokay]

Are you French?

note: idk wth Bonhomme is doing or why he's digging a tunnel through the earth...

greetings Nonny 😜 i'm from Québec, a French-speaking province in Canada. born and raised here. but i'm Anglophone (or English-born). my first language is English. i speak Frenglish/Franglais. can read French, can't write it for shit 💀

much love ~ 💙

[lapsed-lys]

April 3rd 2024

Entry #022

Laicity Law

Being Gen Z and religious in Québec (Canada) is a really strange experience.

(Incoming VERY long ramble about the experience of being Catholic under the Laicity Law.)

In 2019, Québec installed the Laicity Law ("Loi de la laïcitié de l'État"), which stipulates that any authority working for the State cannot show publicly any signs of their religious beliefs. For example, teachers (even private schools), State bankers, State attorneys, etc. can't wear any religious clothing or jewelry. If I were to be working in a museum, I'd have to hide my Rosary necklace under my shirts. It doesn't apply to students or the general public.

Being Gen Z and growing up with the mindset of loving everyone for who they are made me very reticent to the law in 2019, especially as I saw my Muslim friends being stressed out over this. Just this February, a group of people contested the law in court (which was denied). My feelings to that law changed a bit over time, though, especially with that mental exercise:

If I imagine any non-Catholic teacher coming up to school with religious clothing, I'd be okay.

If I imagine a Catholic nun teaching me with their full habit, I'd feel weird.

And it's a common observation amongst the younger Québécois (anecdotal, not proven).

The thing is, that law was made specifically due to the national trauma that we suffered under Catholicism. My parents grew up raised by nuns who would slap their wrists with a ruler, especially my mother as she is left-handed. My grand-parents are from the orphanage generation, the Duplessis Orphans, in which the Cardinal on Montréal signed a treaty with the president to intern all orphans into psychiatric institutions where they were basically enslaved and sexually abused continuously.

And so, of course I feel weird about being taught by an openly presenting Catholic, it's generational trauma! But it wouldn't be fair to just ban Catholics, and we don't want all that trauma to ever happen again... so the Laicity Law applies to every religion.

It's a bummer of a law, though I feel very sympathetic as to why it was put in place.

[ramyeongif]

// Le Tourtière // This hearty meat pie filled with ground meat, onions: much satisfying

#Tourtiere

[canadachronicles]

Happy 48th Birthday Yannick Bisson!!!!

[canadachronicles]

Happy (belated) 42nd Birthday, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau!!!

[canadachronicles]

Alors tu vois, comme tout se mêle Et du cœur à tes lèvres, je deviens un casse-tête Ton rire me crie, de te lâcher Avant de perdre prise et d'abandonner Car je ne t'en demanderai jamais autant Déjà que tu me traites, comme un grand enfant Et nous n'avons plus rien, à risquer À part nos vies qu'on laisse de côté

Et il m'aime encore, et moi je t'aime un peu plus fort Mais il m'aime encore, et moi je t'aime un peu plus fort

Today is International Day of La Francophonie, and Comme des enfants is still one of my favorite songs by Coeur de Pirate. She’s just a wordsmith, and that voice!

[whoopsyeahokay]

OH fellow canadian found in the wild :* do u still live in the quebec area ? i’ve only ever been there to go to the aquarium tbh but i remember it being generally pretty

sweet cherry pie 🥰 oui oui, i still live in QC, specifically the 514. it is a beautiful province, no doubt, but there are politics here that put people at odds which sucks. when i read "aquarium" i was sat there like, we have one of those 😳⁉️ i know the Biodôme and the zoo in the townships, but i don't think i've been to the aquarium that i now know is in Québéc City (i feel like a bad Québécer for not knowing that 😅).

it's gorgeous in the fall, hell in the winter, awesome in the summer. idk where ur at on the map, but spring is pretty universally bof on the East Coast, and it's like that here 😂

thank you so much for reaching out, love ❤️ i love meeting fellow Canadians in the wild 😁

biggest hugs ~ 💓