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Originally Posted by someone123
That is true although as it is NB has some Francophone parts that are more like regions of Quebec than they are like some other parts of NB. I also don't believe that Quebec is the most unique province in every way. From an Atlantic perspective for example there is some "Central Canada" stuff it shares with Ontario that the Atlantic provinces do not. These differences are mostly invisible to people not from Atlantic Canada.
Personally, I imagine a high-dimensional space that has an axis for every kind of difference you can articulate. The provinces are just averages but you can put them somewhere in the space. Quebec is probably the farthest away from the others, but not necessarily along every axis. And then for Atlantic Canada you would find that they are closer to each other than they are to other provinces.
To be perfectly honest I think Francophones in Quebec often make a mistake when they think language is the characteristic that determines a huge variety of other differences. You can be more or less similar to people who speak another language. You can be more similar (not just in a vague way but in terms of concrete interests, political or otherwise) to somebody who speaks a different language than to somebody who shares your language. I agree that language is important though and that it is intertwined with culture. If you try to view Canada through nothing but the English-French lens all the time though you will miss a lot.
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This will support your argument in one way but dispute it in another.
Socially speaking, I often find I have more commonalities with Anglo-Quebecers than I do with francophones from outside Quebec. This includes some members of my own family.
In social gatherings, it seems to me that the Anglo-Quebecers I am friends with actually fit in more easily than Franco-Ontarians do. Of course, these are long-established anglos from Quebec who've lived here all their lives, often have francophone spouses and speak decent French.
There are of course Franco-Ontarians who do fit in with people from Quebec extremely seamlessly. You're more likely to meet them in Ottawa/Eastern Ontario than other parts of the province, but even in those areas it's not the majority of them that are like this.
In fairness, francophones from northern NB fit in with Quebecers pretty seamlessly too on a social level.
Acadians from SE NB and Acadians from the rest of the Maritimes are more like Franco-Ontarians though.
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