Canadian federalism
Canada is another federation with centrifugal tendencies. The British allowed the French-speaking Quebecois to keep their language, and francophone became second-class citizens, poorer than other Canadians and discriminated against because
almost all private and government business was conducted in English. In the 1960s, the Parti Quebecois (PQ) sprang up, dedicated to Quebec's independence from Canada. To appease them, the federal government in ottawa in 1969 made Canada bilingual,