Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!

Written in 1991 in anticipation of a second independence referendum, this counts as part of Quebec's complicated history of separatist movements and contentious languages laws. This is without a doubt a slightly dated and biased account of the issue, but the antagonism between francophones and anglo/allophones is something Quebec probably will never fully shake, and is still present, now 30 years later. Same as its nationalistic and currently slightly more dormant desires to separate from Canada.

Richler finishes the book with a rebuttal to multiple rebuttals of his original The New Yorker article, and a lot of the book feels like that, written in fighting spirit by someone who's clearly too immersed to be unbiased. But, he's good and quite entertaining at throwing punches.