Justifications for Quebec's sovereignty include its unique culture and French-speaking majority (80%).
The movement for reform took shape in a period of economic disfranchisement of the French-speaking majority and working-class English-speaking citizens.
The Culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting from the shared history of the French-speaking majority in Quebec.
By this time, the French-speaking majority of Lower Canada had become a political minority in a unified Canada.
Early on, members of the French-speaking majority and the more privileged English-speaking minority settled in segregated neighbourhoods.
Brussels is officially a bilingual area, but it has a French-speaking majority.
Despite having a French-speaking majority, Quebec is often considered part of Anglo-America due to cultural, economic, geographical, historical, and political considerations.
Then, as the conversation turned to Quebec and its French-speaking majority, voices were raised.
Most of the English-speaking contributors to the magazine also feel isolated, overlooked by Quebec's French-speaking majority.
When Quebec's French-speaking majority erupted with renewed protests for independence, the province's Indian groups seized the occasion to make demands of their own.