Leonard Cohen is a Québécois
The results are in. 100% Francophones who answered the AngryFrenchGuy’s totally unscientific Who is Nous poll, consider Leonard Cohen to be one of them, part of Nous, a Québécois.
Anglos are split right down the middle and Allophones don’t see Leonard Cohen as a Québécois at all.
Born in 1934 in Montreal, son of Jewish immigrants, Leonard Cohen lived most of his youth in Québec and studied at McGill university before eventually moving to the United States. As it was common in those days in Montreal’s immigrant communities, he was raised to be and English-speaker.
Cohen himself explained in a 1975 Crawdaddy magazine article, that he was never fluent in the language of Montreal’s French majority: “I can get by, but it’s not a tongue I could ever move around in in a way that would satisfy the appetites of the mind or the heart.”
Does the poet feel like a Québécois? Here is what he had to say in the 1975 article in Crawdaddy Magazine:
“I live in Montreal, which is a French city, in Quebec, which is a French country–especially now, it is a country. I live as a minority writer, almost in exile, because there is no English writing community where I live. These are very special Canadian problems which to me form the Canadian character, because we’re very much involved in this notion of what is minority and what is majority; and yet while these questions are in the air, it seems that everybody has space. Because we don’t have the melting pot notion at all in Canada, we have a federal system that runs right down into the psyche of the country.”
AngryFrenchGuy 
Wow, seriously… no one gives a shit what he considers himself.
Peter
January 29, 2008 at 9:16 am
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Oscar Peterson is a Québécois « AngryFrenchGuy
February 11, 2008 at 11:05 am
First I am a man. I live on planet earth. And I am sick and tired of living in a country, called Canada, that cannot even recognize that I am part of a nation and a culture like any other. I exist and have a sacred right to be “free”. “Freedom” is not a privilege.”Liberté, égalité, fraternité.” “Je me souviens.” Cohen remembers like all jews remember. Who gives a shit Peter ? I do. So does Cohen, you racist.
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