ABSTRACT
Despite the problems and discord it faces, Québec is a marvelous place to live, and the people there are generally happy. Increasingly diverse both ethnically and culturally, Québec society is not wracked by insurmountable antagonism among its members. The tense and at times fraught relationship between Francophones and Anglophones has eased over time. Québec society is not driven by some fundamental trauma that it would prefer to forget or that it continually relives, preventing it from moving forward. 1 While history is important for Québecers, they do not seem to have made the past the location of their collective identity.
