Thirty years after Quebec voted on whether or not to leave Canada and form its own country, Canadians increasingly see themselves as one nation, despite talks of separation by some provincial leaders, according to a new poll.

“It’s nice to say we’re all a multinational federation, but our populace truly refuses to see us that way,” said Jack Jedwab, president and CEO of the Association for Canadian Studies, which commissioned the poll. “Academia that continues to insist Canada is some sort of multinational federation is operating in some sort of parallel place, completely out of tune with the public.”

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