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Je suis né au Québec, j'y ai grandi, étudié, travaillé, vécu presque toute ma vie, sauf quelques années à Toronto et Ottawa pour les études et le travail, où je me suis jamais vraiment senti chez moi, mais comme dans un pays étranger. J'aime le Québec, son histoire, sa culture, sa langue, son mode de vie et les Québécois en général. Je m'accommode de son climat, de ses six mois ou presque d'hiver, mais quand même avec de beaux et chauds étés. Je m'accommode aussi de la vie chère due aux taxes et impôts multiples à payer, les plus élevés en Amérique du Nord, qui fait que paradoxalement, il en coûte quand même moins cher vivre ici qu'ailleurs au Canada et au filet social dont les Québécois bénéficient et qui fait l'envie de bien des citoyens ailleurs au pays. L'ombre au tableau : l'hostilité et le racisme du Canada anglais, y compris la plupart des anglophones du Québec et les allophones qui joignent cette communauté récalcitrante envers le Québec et les francophones en général, le wokisme ambiant, la complaisance de la mairesse de Montréal, Valérie Plante, qui a transformé la ville en une immense piste cyclable, l'hypocrisie de Justin Trudeau quant à la législation québécoise pour la protection de la langue et de la laïcité, qu'il entend contester devant la Cour Suprême du pays. Si je n'étais autant attaché au Québec, ce serait les principales raisons qui me feraient quitter le Québec, mais pour aller où ? Où ? Des suggestions éclairées ?

I live In Québec, and let's just Say I love this province! But the others don't look Bad either! In Fact, I'm planning to visit the others someday!

You can have a beer in Québec and I don't think he's ever been to Montreal or Québec city.

Québec can be many things, but ''ugly'' is definitely not one of them. Have you ever been to Québec City? That place is GORGEOUS!

Great video, and wonderful selection. Indeed Québec is the best. I left this province 32 years ago. But still my heart belongs to la belle province.

I was surprised but at the same time not surprised that my province is #1. Québec is definitely the best place to raise a family and it's not uncommon to have multiple kids. I live close to the Ontario border and because having kids in Ontario is more expensive they tend to have just one.

I'm from québec/Montréal, I love my country. I still hate winter even if it's short december to mars but it's great for peoples that love winter sports. It's a peacefull country and we don't like war.

First Québec. ..then the rest ?

Québec ranked ?????

Let's be positive, here: Manitoba has a balanced climate; -35°C in winter, +35°C in summer. Hard to beat. Québec has some of that too, but it has much more snow. The city of Québec receives almost as much precipitations as Vancouver, 950mm vs 1100mm for Vancouver, but in Québec it falls as snow and everything gets buried. People in Vancouver do not tan, they rust!

i gotta go tell my parents i retract my prior statement about moving to Québec im a real québécois 4 real from now on lol

Born & raised in les Cantons de l'Est, I was pleasantly surprised that you got #1 right! Just one drive along the St Lawrence River (not on the highway please) demonstrates the cheer beauty and charm of Québec, and you'd be hard pressed to find a more world-class city than Montréal (it is also impossible to find an older & more beautiful North American city than la Ville de Québec.)\n\nLife brought me to Toronto, but my heart will always belong to Brome-Missisquoi.

Vive le Québec libre

Québec it's a piece of shit

I love my beautiful country. ?? I would love to visit all the provinces. Ontario and Québec I'm familiar with. But I'd love to visit Newfoundland and Labrador.

I think every Canadian would expect the top 5 to be some combination of Québec, Nova Scotia, Alberta, BC, and Ontario but I’m kinda surprised by the order lol. I’ve lived in Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta but have travelled to every province except Newfoundland and Labrador. Only 22 so that probably has some effect but I kinda expected \n1. Ontario \n2. Alberta \n3. British Columbia \n4. Québec \n5. Nova Scotia \nCost of living definitely screws BC and Ontario over though. Pretty solid list, the 5 are pretty much interchangeable depending on what you’re after.

well with COVID and restriction starting sooner and easing later that everywhere else in Canada, Québec is not the best province anymore that is for sure \nanyway all of Canada is going down so it doesn't really matter

Québec is the worst

I'm from Québec, but I love all the provinces of Canada, they are just different from each other, and keep in mind even the worst in Canada is way better than a lot of countries. For me, I see the rest of Canada like family, like cousins. So I love them all. Even the native in the north, I don't see them a lot but hey, they are family too.

I did not watch this video. However, it has come to my attention that you placed Québec as #1 on your list of best provinces; this I can not stand for. I demand you revise this list and put Québec at MOST in the number 8 spot, just above Saskatchewan. I would appreciate a hasteful mending of this HEINOUS sin. Although a complete deletion of this video essay would be adequate.\n\nSincerely, J.

Québec ?

As a Canadian (Halifax) I was expecting to roll my eyes a lot, but this was a pretty fair assessment, I was surprised to see Quebec as 1 though. Félicitations de la Nouvelle-Écosse Québec!

Whatever, the temperature doesn't count because in literally every province and territory of Canada you enjoy -30 degrees celsius every winter ! I live in Québec and once it got from -10 to about 15 degrees in a single night ! It took 3 hours and them got a nice 25 degrees difference !

Québec is somewhat culturally a mixture of France, USA, UK and Scandinavia;\n\nFrance: Language, Literature, Historical sites/cities\nUSA: Infrastructure, Business model\nUK: Political structure\nScandinavia: Climate, Social security and programs\n\nOn top of that, we share a culture with the rest of Canada. It's wild.

Québec is just inheriting this from France, not suppressing

Osti que c'est bo le Québec....

This is basically a commercial for anyone who lives in Quebec who isn’t French to learn French.\nI Will (but the Gouvernement de Québec Won’t) leave that up to you.\nThe producers left out the following:\n- Current and Coming Major Increases in Language Strife (FRENCH Vs English) lead by the Provincial Gouvernement. -Bill 96\n- Current unwelcoming or tolerance of religiously oriented communities -Bill 21\n- Oddly the French Public School system has a terribly high drop out rate for boys compared to the English System (which is under attack from Bills - 101 & 96).\n- The Healthcare System is in Shambles as increasingly demonstrated by its inability to deal with Covid. It is so bad (in terms of available resources) that the Gouvernement has been forced to have some of the most repressive and restrictive measures (including curfews) in the entire world in order to keep its medical system and hospitals from collapse.\n\nI don’t know what to do with the ranking but making Quebec # 1 very much diminishes the validity of the rest of this video and that’s ashame.

Thank you for your entertaining video. Hard to fit such a diverse and beautiful country in in short video.There was no mention of Québec City. Out of the most beautiful province in Canada, Québec city is the birthplace of the nation....and a slice of Europe! Skiing in Canada in the province of Québec on the ancient Appalachians....or in the Rockies of British Columbia....EPIC! As well, Canada has 2 official languages nation wide.

I was waiting for Québec to be dunked on, reflecting the reality in Canada, but that never happened. :(

If you get a chance, please visit Grosse Île, Québec. There is a memorial there where around 5000 Irish buried. ?

Québec wasn't even mentioned, perfect ?

Vive le Québec Libre !

Yes I agree that Québec is the greatest province since I've lived here my hole life. J'adore ça!

Quebec is the best by far. that's true. J'aime Québec ? (je suis Québecois)

Born and raised francophone from Québec, that has seen ALL of Canada and I love it ALL. Every province and territories are amazing. Also lived in Ontario, Alberta and BC.

Ayy i live in Québec and didn’t even know it was so good.

Québec #1 certains mon chum!

Yay my province is #1 let's go Québec !!! I did not expect that at all

Parlez français, vous ne le regretterez pas pour découvrir la fascinante culture du Québec !

Vivre le Québec libre!

The best final of all: Learn French if you move to Québec! ? Salary are also higher for bilinguals… ??$$

Bonjour je n’aurais pas pensé que le Québec soit numéro 1, de nombreuses régions canadiennes sont attractives.

I live in Québec, Montreal. And yes it's a good place to live but winter is coming..... damn

Ravi de la première position du Québec. C'est largement mérité.

#1 = Québec?\n Enfin, pour une fois pas de 'Québec bashing'.\n Faut le prendre quand ça passe.

I’m happy that we are number one ! Québec is like the annoying little brother. We are really different from the rest of Canada (mostly because we speak French). !

Je suis bien content que le Québec est No 1 dans cette vidéo...

Félicitations Québec, je t'aime ❤

Québec number 1

From Québec tabarnak ??