The Two Basic Races of Canada and Their Paramount Right to Survival

“In a country like ours, there are immigrant races that are inevitably destined to lose their identity, of merging somehow into the mixture that absorbs them. To this they have consented beforehand, because, uprooted from their soil, they cannot dream of surviving. But there are also, in a country like ours, basic races that have the right of survival, who hold that right by their history, by their priority of settlement, or by conquest, and who are masters by their having discovered or having conquered. For them, there can be no question of fusion: there can only be the problem of co-operation.”

~Camille Roy, French Canadian Priest and Literary Critic