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“The presence of your English-language music on the most majestic part of Battlefields Park, as beautiful as it might be, can’t help but bring back painful memories of our Conquest,” said an open letter signed by many prominent Quebec artists, politicians, and intellectuals.
But the Quebec people themselves voted with their ears, as it were.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney drew record crowds at a performance in Quebec City last week, one of the entertainment highlights of that province’s big 400-year birthday bash.
But it was not all good times! Some of Quebec’s separatist elites took great offense that a BRITISH singer was being relied on for the historic anniversary’s lead entertainment.
