We need to argue. We need to find that we can actually communicate ideas. We need to get past the constipated condition where things are unspoken and solitudes are respected. We need to argue about this:

A fresh war of words erupted at a Heritage Committee probing the scrubbed re-enactment of this seminal defeat of the French, where the new combatants paralleled the old fracture that unleashed the original gunfire across the plain. Conservative MPs attacked “extremist thugs” they said were funded by the Bloc Québécois for “inciting violence” against plans to re-enact the battle this summer. Separatist MPs fired back, saying it was a unity-promoting plot linked to the Liberal sponsorship scandal that celebrated “victory over the vanquished.”

Celebrating the defeat of an uncaring imperial flop and the genesis of distinct Quebec culture should be something that make sense to all Canadians. It is one of the few cords that makes the country and that, more importantly, made the country. Within years of the Plains of Abraham, les Canadiens et Canadiennes along with British military repel the Americans in 1775 - again ensuring there even is a Canada and a Quebec. Within two generations, the fact of Quebec is one of the leading forces in the 1830's reforms that saw responsible government come to British North America and the empire. Why can't we argue about that? Why can't we be happy in the full awareness of our history?