Le livre noir du Canada Anglais
Le livre noir du Canada anglais ( French for Anglo-Canada Black Book ) is an anthology consisting of three books by the Québec investigative journalist Normand Lester . In it he documents the discrimination in Canada, namely by the Anglo-Saxon majority against French Canadians , Jews and First Nations .
Emergence
The book was created as a reaction to the so-called " Quebec bashing " in the English-speaking media landscape after the broadcast of the Heritage Minutes / Minutes du Patrimoine, which sometimes glossed over important aspects of Canadian history, to the coverage of the Québec referendum in 1995 and to the advertising campaign of the federalists, which later grew into a "sponsorship scandal" because corruption was rampant within the campaign. According to Lester, the Anglo-Canadian media were rash when it came to disseminating distorted or even untrue reports, such as when a Nazi anthem was allegedly sung at an early Québec sovereign event, which was actually a completely different song with a coincidentally similar title .
intention
The book seeks to refute the claims of the federalists. It shows that Québec's independence movement had no fascist or anti-Semitic traits and that these prejudices were reproduced in abundance in the rest of Canada. Volume one describes how former (Anglo-Canadian) Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett financed the (French-Canadian) fascist Adrien Arcand . The publication resulted in Lester being given leave of absence by Société Radio-Canada .
Volumes
- Le livre noir du Canada anglais (2001; ISBN 2-89549-045-7 )
- Le livre noir du Canada anglais 2 (2002; ISBN 2-89549-065-1 )
- Le livre noir du Canada anglais 3 (2003; ISBN 2-89549-117-8 )
See also
- Nègres blancs d'Amérique
- Speak White , poem and film
- Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow , campaign against French in Canada
- Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada , political arm of the movement at the end of the 20th century, then extinct
- Bilingualism in Canada
- Musée de l'Amérique francophone in Québec