69 points

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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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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3 points

Quebeccies it is

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19 points

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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17 points

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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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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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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6 points

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

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9 points

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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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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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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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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45 points

That’s good, but we need to get that percentage higher. Let’s shoot for 90% or better. Make America tourism hurt.

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5 points

Come the 4th, and expect stuff to change.

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41 points

Good, and I’m following suit. Just cancelled a trip I had planned to Boston this September. I’m not spending a dollar more than I have to on the shithole that has become the US.

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14 points

with tHE Faa being gutted by musk, its not even safe to fly down there.

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Massachusetts is a strong Blue State.

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6 points

Fact: Money spent in Blue States still props the American economy

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40 points

Canada is such a lovely place to tour! And if you’re Canadian you probably already have the appropriate clothing! In such a large and diverse country you can certainly find an experience different from your daily.

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The problem is it’s fucking expensive. We went to Halifax this summer and had a great time, but we could have easily paid for a week in an all inclusive in Mexico for a similar price for 5 days in Halifax.

That being said, we’re taking the train to Montreal for March break. Way simpler and less stressy than an international trip, but not cheaper.

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11 points

Halifax is a great town! Although Mexico is ok too. It’s the US we should try to avoid.

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7 points

Yeah, indeed. On the other hand I’m also painfully aware that the reason it’s so cheap for me over there is that I’m the richer guy in a poorer country… 😬

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