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Quebec - Canada’s Largest Province

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Quebec is Canada’s largest province where more than 80% of Canada’s population is born. The culture of the French had left a significant mark on the region’s cities and towns that resided near Quebec; such as New Brunswick whose population was mainly French-speaking Acadians. The province of Quebec was colonized by France and officially obtained by Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Therefore, the mass majority of the population then and now is French. The originality of Quebec’s distinct laws goes back to the their first conquest of the 1760’s, where then the victory of Great Britain happened and then the common law was established under the Royal Proclamation of 1763. Only special provisions were granted to Quebec, “The Quebec Act of 1774," allowed Quebec the right to exercise Roman Catholicism freely, church can collect tithes, acknowledge the Seigneurial system, a semi-feudal system of land distribution. Lastly the law established that civil suits would be tried under French civil law and criminal cases would only be tried under the British common law. Because of these separated laws of act, both councils had to French and English speaking members. Overtime, tension between the English and French built up and this is when the British attempted to divide Quebec into Upper and Lower provinces of Canada through the Constitutional Act of 1791. Both upper and lower has different distinctive laws, but it is said because of this history of Quebec, this is why there is still the tension of the secession of Quebec from Canada (Quebec). In Quebec, Montreal’s economy has greatly advanced over the years, with advancements such as, technology, telecommunications and biopharmaceuticals all growing for a purpose for the economy. On the other hand though, Quebec’s economic expectations have a tendency to be overpowered by the region’s political skepticism and outranks of nationalism in businesses. There were laws

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