Jack Granatstein, Canada’s leading military historian, describes the simple and unpretty truth about many Québecois in a book review concerning Canadian censorship during WW II (note also how Anglo-Saxon–now RoC–media attitudes have changed):

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This story…was different in the French-language media and for all the wrong reasons. Newspapers such as Le Devoir were unabashedly anti-war, anti-British, anti-conscription, anti-Semitic and anti-Charles de Gaulle, and were fervent advocates for the Vichy French government led by Marshal Philippe Pétain. Le Devoir’s Georges Pelletier essentially outfaced the censors, publishing his claptrap without real checks because, Bourrie argues without providing quite enough evidence, Ottawa politicians, notably justice ministers Ernest Lapointe and Louis St. Laurent, were afraid of a government-media confrontation that could turn Quebec opinion even more against the war effort. Here, the Directorate of Censorship, which frequently viewed Le Devoir as “this German paper published in French … [that] systematically and with gross misrepresentation and distortion of facts continually sabotages the Canadian war effort,” was held in check by frightened politicians…

Not something you’ll have read about much in recent times, eh? Then there was PET:

Trudeau: Intellectual fool; moral imbecile