“What does Quebec want? The answer is simple: Quebec does not know what it wants”. In this remarkable book, William Johnson points out the reasons why Quebec s political life has been driven by an astounding syndrome of illusions and mythology: Canada is battered by the prolonged polemics and dialectics, the confrontations, the ultimatums, the identity crises, the rumors of referendums and the threats of secession. The author then argues that it is time to break the cycle and realize that the cause of Quebec s discontent in Confederation has never been political, but ideological – or, more accurately, mythological.