Yeah, ok, you're right that the Quebecois are insecure in their "French-ness" and ovedo it in weird pre-Napoleonic ways sometimes... but if you had to live next to ever-bitter Tory ex-Americans on one side (Canadian Ontario) and Yankee puritans on the other (New England) you'd appreciate the time capsule of old-world isolationism Quebec has wraped itself in to survive over the centuries. They actually came within a couple thousand votes in the 90's of splitting Quebec (New France?) off as an independent Country.... but did Paris help or care? nope. And to add insult to injury, Quebecois pilots flying into CDG airport are asked by the Parisian air traffic controllers to speak english because their French is called incomprehensible!
I suspect French-Canadians receive the same general treatment from French as Americans do from English... (probably the English squirm more). Freakish cousins from the 18th century they might be, but you gotta admit that North America would be a much more interesting continent if come the next referrendum an independent Nation of Quebec (New France) suddenly popped up between the US and Canada.