ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that in attempting to theorize the acquired status of a racially neutral concept of "nativeness", Geacute;rard Bouchard's understanding of interculturalism completes the political self-supersession of Québec's specifically settler colonial claims to nationhood and foundationalism. It theorizes the settler historical consciousness that has become instrumental to the naturalization and the de-racialization of settler occupancy. The Bouchard-Taylor Report and Bouchard's subsequent writings on interculturalism perpetuate such historical consciousness, which imagines Québec as a non-colonial, national entity striving in the margins of Empire. The chapter critically explores the very notion of interculturalism, (re)defined and vigorously defended by commissioner Bouchard since the commission, as a particularly powerful modality of such settler common sense. French philosopher Jacques Rancière proposed an analogous theoretical argument when he famously explained that what he understands as the dead end of political action and reflection is owing to the identification of politics with the self of the political community.
