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- noun Canada, social criticism The
historical and, by some accounts, currentdysfunctional relationship between theAnglophone andFrancophone groups inCanada , characterized by poorcommunication andmutual exclusion .
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First used by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) and applied to Canadian society in the title of a 1945 novel by Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.
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