Are Quebeckers still the least macho men in the world?

They evolved a lot in the 1970s. They were shaken by the feminist discourse. Because Quebec is a matriarchy. Women are very strong. In the past, they were better educated than the men who worked the land at a very young age. My mother learned to read to her father. Today, little boys learn at an early age not to behave like the men of the past. They denounce discrimination and violence against women. Sexual harassers at work are not tolerated by their colleagues who intervene when necessary. At home they adhere to 50/50 for household chores. Reverse of the coin, their companions today no longer want to live with men too nice!

So what are Quebeckers fighting for today?

We can say that Quebec society has become feminized in its values ​​and institutions except for equal pay! It exists in the civil service but not yet in the private sector. More and more women are coming to power in the economic sphere. And, in the near future, they may even be more numerous than men. Today, boys drop out of the school system three times as often as girls. At university, girls are the majority in education and the social sciences, but also in law and medicine, which were formerly reserved for men. And politics could also become their new ground of power. In their struggles for equality, they are much more frontal and harder than French women who often prefer to play their seductive power.

Why did you write this dictionary?

It is a cry from the heart. A plea for the Quebecois, their anti-conformism, their good humor, their active and dynamic creators, their comedians more numerous among us in Europe! Quebec is incredible, formidable landscapes, what is called "vastitude". You can drive 400 kilometers in the real nature and meet only animals, which has become very rare. But Quebec can also be a trap for all francophones who land there by believing themselves to be a country of knowledge thanks to the French language. Quebeckers do not think like the French. This romantic dictionary should allow all those who read it to get a good idea of ​​this land of welcome which, so rightly, makes so many young people dream!