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Jeff L
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Jeff L asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

Why "Quebec" has its own Yahoo answers, doesn't it belongs Canada anymore?

I know french is spoken in Quebec,Canada.

Will it indenpendence in the near future?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    One entry about Quebec says: Given the province's heritage and the preponderance of French (unique among the Canadian provinces), there is an ongoing debate in Canada regarding the status of Quebec and/or its people (wholly or partially). Prior attempts to amend the Canadian constitution to acknowledge Quebec as a 'distinct society' – referring to the province's uniqueness within Canada regarding law, language, and culture – have been unsuccessful; however, the federal government under prime minister Jean Chrétien would later endorse recognition of Quebec as a distinct society. On October 30, 2003, the National Assembly of Quebec voted unanimously to affirm "that the Quebecers form a nation".

    On November 27, 2006, the House of Commons passed a motion moved by prime minister Stephen Harper declaring that "this House recognize[s] that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada, although there is considerable debate and uncertainty over what this means.

    I't's anyones guess what the future will bring but personally I don't see Quebec ever becoming a seperate country. The Swiss have three languages, French in the East, German in the north and east, and Italian in the southern region, and they get along fine.

  • 5 years ago

    I've noticed that too. I don't know if yahoo is deliberately providing any information, but it wouldn't necessarily need this to happen. Any programmer could write an application to 'scrape' websites, extracting information. The cleverer the program, the more accurate the scrape. Hence a site about widgets could use such a program to scrape other widget sites, extracting the information in a usable form and reformatting it for their own site. It makes sense that Y!A would be a target for this; it's a big site with a high content level, all in the same format. That means the scraper has to cope with only this one format, and can easily make use of keyword searches. While this may be far from legal, it's also hard to stop. It would mean jumping on each and every site that does this. It's a bit like spam - it would probably take some high-profile prosecutions and immense penalties to deter people from doing it. Even then they'll probably just use servers in 'dodgy' countries to get round that. I think it's something we'll just have to get used to. We shouldn't be putting any sensitive information on Y!A anyway, and make sure your screen name doesn't identify the real you.

  • 1 decade ago

    That is done as a courtesy so that they can ask and answer in THEIR 'native' language and not be forced to use the English-speaking Canadian Answers site. Same with the 'en Español' version of the Yahoo US site.

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