This makes sense to me. Under the current political system (bicameral, FPTP), Quebec gets a large voice in Canadian affairs. The BQ gets about 8% nationally. In a pure PR system, that would translate to 8% of the seats. If the Senate were eliminated, the BQ would be Quebec's only voice nationally. Not to speak of official bilingualism, a policy which overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) benefits Quebec.
Oh sure yes - I had more complete charts in the earlier post I linked to; today I was trying to keep it simple. But as mentioned, overall the trend outside Quebec is flat, with some variation. Ontario and BC set the average - they are both flat over the 15 years covered. Atlantic Canada is up a bit since the 2015 election, and Alberta is down since then (as I showed in the last chart), and MB / SK is up and down. This is for the "support" question. The trends for the "proud" question are about the same. There is more general improvement across regions for the "respect" question but Quebec has improved more than the others.
This makes sense to me. Under the current political system (bicameral, FPTP), Quebec gets a large voice in Canadian affairs. The BQ gets about 8% nationally. In a pure PR system, that would translate to 8% of the seats. If the Senate were eliminated, the BQ would be Quebec's only voice nationally. Not to speak of official bilingualism, a policy which overwhelmingly (though not exclusively) benefits Quebec.
Very interesting and counter-intuitive. Do you have the same data with respect to the other provinces, to see how they line up?
Oh sure yes - I had more complete charts in the earlier post I linked to; today I was trying to keep it simple. But as mentioned, overall the trend outside Quebec is flat, with some variation. Ontario and BC set the average - they are both flat over the 15 years covered. Atlantic Canada is up a bit since the 2015 election, and Alberta is down since then (as I showed in the last chart), and MB / SK is up and down. This is for the "support" question. The trends for the "proud" question are about the same. There is more general improvement across regions for the "respect" question but Quebec has improved more than the others.