Anti-Quebec Sentiment

Anti-Quebec sentiment is opposition or hostility expressed toward the government, culture, or the francophone people of Quebec.

The French-language media has termed as Quebec bashing what it perceives as defamatory anti-Quebec coverage in the English-language media. They cite examples mostly from the English-Canadian media, and occasionally in coverage from other countries, often based on Canadian sources.

Some representatives of the French-language media in Quebec believe that an unfavourable depiction of the province by the media had increased since the unsuccessful 1995 Quebec referendum on independence.

The scope or the level at which the expression of extreme or virulent anti-Quebec opinion represents an opinion widely held in English Canada has been debated by moderate federalist elements in the French-speaking media. Some commentators have said that allegations of Quebec-bashing are an over-reaction to the usual attacks in heated politics.