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We should call them Qubecois.

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“Quebecers” is absolutely the worst demonym I’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing.

I’d honestly rather use “Quebecans” or “Quebecinites” than “Quebecers”. That being said, I’m francophone so I just say “québécois et québécoises”.

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3 points

Quebeccies it is

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C’est vrai, quebecers always sounds wrong to me for some reason. Québécois is the original, so idk I think it should just be québécois in English without any translations

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In Ontario I’ve generally heard and used “Québécois” and don’t really hear Quebecers often. Weird that the Montréal CityNews outlet is using Quebecers of all places.

In my mind Québécois is a sign of respect, while Quebecers is dismissive, and I can’t explain why I think that way.

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The word Québécois in English I think signifies more the ethnic group, than all Quebeckers (ppl who live in Quebec, Québécois or otherwise).

In French, it’s ambiguous.

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4 points

I’m from Montreal originally. We call ourselves Quebecers.

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2 points

I live in the mtl suburbs and I very rarely hear quebecers. Even Anglo people say québécois

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23 points

Only half?

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8 points

tabernac!

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15 points

Maybe the other half are locked in, won’t get a decent refund for canceling.

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4 points

Maybe the other 25% are locked in and the other 25% do not have the money to even think about a trip elsewhere.

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2 points

It’s pretty significant when you think about it, what really surprised me was that the entirety of Quebec had flights planned to the US.

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I wonder what the statistic is for Anglo Canada. It’s going to be even worse.

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24 points

We are a terrorist nation. This is a good call. Stay safe and stay far away from this place.

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Good call. This place is an embarrassment.

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53 points

Or support Mexican tourism for warm destinations, the enemy of our enemy is our friend.

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38 points

Us Québécois love going to Cuba, we’ve been vacationing there for ever! It’s amazing, not a single American in sight!

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Just went to Cancún, so many québécois! It’s a direct flight from YUL. Not that many Americans in some areas.

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Still more Americans than Havana, also a direct flight from YUL ;)

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Beautiful beaches, food sucks though. Mexico is better!

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Oh I think the dirt cheap, plentiful, delicious food is what I’ll miss the most in Mexico.

The people are also genuinely wonderful (at least in Cancún / Playa Del Carmen), I’ve heard the opposite for the Dominican Republic. Don’t know about Cuba.

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I keep hearing this, but man was it not my experience. I may have just been unlucky, or maybe it was just our specific resort, but the food we ate on the resort was extremely disappointing. The best meal I ate whole week was a random lunch I ate in a disposable plate (the cochinita pibil was out of this world) before leaving Tulum. Meanwhile most food in Cuba was perfectly fine. On average not the best I ate in my life, but nothing terrible.

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Yes. Food is not great in Cuba. Unless you stay with a local and have the amazing fresh fruit for breakfast. And the coffee / dairy is amazing!

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7 points

I think a big thing should be support Canada, instead of bringing your money elsewhere keep it in Canada. We are going to have some bumpy times of us.

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  1. Supporting Canada exclusively for winter beach vacations is not reasonable, a lot of people want to take a break from winter somewhere warm. This used to be Florida / California, let’s start going to Latin America and Europe instead.

  2. We have to be careful with this mentality, isolationism is the exact kind of mentality we are accusing the US of. Let’s keep supporting friendly nations to show the US we have other friends to play with.

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