Challenge: A Modern-Day Independent Fascist Quebec

Give La Belle Province a chance to become the worst it can be: a far-right totalitarian rogue state that has survived to the present day. A menace to all other North Americans, a target for Washington's jingos, a boiling pot ready to unleash a deadly war upon the continent's East. How can it be done, and what would society look like in an authoritarian French ethno-state in the middle of the Western Hemisphere?



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I think in the 20th Century, Quebec's reactionaries have preferred maintaining the Canadian connection along with its British institutions. As late as the 1970s, the Creditistes were ranting against sovereigntists as dangerous Communist intellectuals.

So you might need to go pre-1900 for this one, and even there, the conservative forces in Quebec tended to be pro-British(since the main alternatives on offer were either domination by protestant America, or republican France). Maybe is somewhere along the way, London decides to throw caution to the wind and enforce a policy of assimilation at gunpoint, it could provoke an anti-colonialist uprising of a clerical, reactionary hue. If the rest of history goes the same as OTL, they could ally with Vichy at some point, I suppose, and maintain their distinct character even after the defeat of fascism in Europe.

Though I honestly can't see the Brits being stupid enough to try that.
 
As to what it would look like if it DID somehow come to pass, well, probably something like Salazar's Portugal. Not sure how you'd get a regime like that to be expansionist against its immediate neighbours, though. Maybe they could try grabbing some colonies in the Caribbean?
 
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