The big surprise about our visit from the “King of Canada” was that Quebecers didn’t care.

Sure, the usual nationalist suspects went on about the “insult to democracy.”

But most Quebecers yawned and shrugged.

In short, they acted like Canadians, 83 per cent of whom said they “didn’t care” about King Charles’s visit (while Quebecers polled 90 per cent).

In fact, most Canadians would like to dump the monarchy.

But for that we’d have to reopen the dreaded Constitution: a Pandora’s box that would quickly have every province demanding something in exchange.

Alberta would want a pipeline in every home, Quebec the exclusive world rights to the words “distinct” and “special.”

Ontario would demand recognition as the official “centre of the universe” and B.C. a guarantee it can keep complaining about housing prices, while sipping $8 lattes.

Negotiations would continue until shortly after the death of the universe.

So instead of going there, we all just shrugged at the King’s visit. But the francophone shrug seems part of a larger recent shrug about Quebec nationalism in general.

How? Let’s connect some dots.

First dot: In the recent........

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