French fact

English

Noun

the French fact (countable and uncountable, plural French facts)

  1. (Canada, idiomatic) The presence of French Canada as a distinct cultural, linguistic, and political force within the Canadian Confederation.
    • 2006, Ray Solitaire, Canada, A Celebration from A to Z (Volume 1):
      By highlighting the many fascinating French facts - those fabulous cultural idiosyncrasies that make the province so unique, though not in any political sense of the term — and vigorously denouncing all ethnical slights, the stent in the vein of English-speaking Canada's genetic hard-heartedness has been, thanks to literary anastomosis, rendered ineffective.
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