SOURCE: Linklater, Andro. “Your Tongue Shall Be Split.” Spectator 269, no. 8568 (26 September 1992): 44.

In the following review, Linklater compliments Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!: Requiem for a Divided Country as an “impassioned” critique of Quebec's history and politics.

Perched on top of stridently excitable Americans and shrilly excitable Mexicans, and heaven knows what other excitements below the belt in South America, Canada has always conjured up the sort of cerebral kindliness you associate with Anglican vicars. Perhaps it lacked a certain definition—Air Canada, after all, promises to fly you to ‘A Land of Possibilities’ rather than one of actualities—but you couldn't deny its goodness. There the Canadians were, keeping the peace in the blue bonnets of the United Nations, accepting refugees that others turned away, and tolerantly talking to each other in English and French. A model citizen among the nations of the earth, you would say.

The reality...