August 2003

by Tristan Baurick

MONTREAL - Carlyle Williams is an immigrant, speaks French and English fluently, and swells with pride as he cheers a throng of people dressed as Fleur-de-lys at this year's nighttime Fete nationale parade. "I am Quebecois," Williams said. His voice is tinged with the Trinidadian lilt of his homeland and the francophone grace of his adopted city. "I believe in a separate Quebec." Williams represents a new Quebec nationalism that celebrates the multiculturalism of the present while holding tight the sovereignist pride that charged parades of the past. "I will always be seen as . . .