As St. Jean Baptiste approaches, Patrick Lagacé asks us to say why we love Quebec.

Here’s a few of my reasons:

1. Julie Couillard.
2. Because politics here is never boring.
3. Because we have a government that’s progressive yet democratic.
4. Because we have a population that is actually bilingual, and doesn’t just pretend to be for show.
5. Because we had a massively controversial independence vote that was decided almost within the margin of error, but it wasn’t followed by a civil war.
6. Because the single biggest and most violent political crisis in our history produced a single fatality.
7. Because of Les Francs-Tireurs and Patrick Lagacé’s hair.
8. Because Québécois French is so funny-sounding.
9. Because the Canadiens are not so much a hockey team as a shared religion.
10. Because of all the pretty girls I’m going to see today on the way to work.

UPDATE: I see this has officially reached meme status. Which would make it my first meme. And hopefully my last.

UPDATE (June 24): Lagacé’s column compiles his readers’ responses.