Scotland and Quebec share a great deal

When it comes to the search for independence, Scottish nationalists should take a lesson from Quebec’s history.

Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon, left, should be wary of taking unilateral independence advice from the likes of Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, writes Andrew Caddell. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/The Scottish Government and The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 7, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—My father was raised a Scot. Although born in Brantford, Ont., in 1913, he moved to Edinburgh, U.K., in 1920 with his mother and brothers to join his father, who had been demobilized to Edinburgh after the First World War. The Caddell name is Scottish, but...

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