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Originally Posted by Dion
"The presence of your English-language music on the most majestic part of Battlefields Park, as beautiful as it might be, can't help but bring back painful memories of our Conquest," Mr. Archambault writes.
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I would think that ANY concert at a place called "Battlefields Park", which I would assume is on the Plains of Abraham, would bring back "painful memories of our Conquest."
Of course, the idea that the "Conquest" was objectively painful is rather hard to support; as I recall, Quebec was ruled by the absolutist French regime at the time, which was toppled no more than 30 years later by its own incensed citizens; replacing that with an British regime that preserved their laws and religion (which, btw, was a contributing factor to the American Revolution as many in the English colonies vastly resented the granting of said rights to people they regarded as Popish barbarians) simply meant they traded one faraway master for another. Nevermind the almost certainty that if they had not been subsumed by the British Empire then, they would have been sold off to the USA at the same time Napoleon sold off Louisiana, for the same reasons, and more than likely would have been, again like Louisiana, transformed into people of American culture and language.
Which, on the plus side, would be sparing us now the resentments of idiots like this guy that can't let go of the past and would rather nurse ancient grievances than celebrate current accomplishments.