With all due respect, Mr. Juneau, I think that is the problem: there is a disconnect. We won't even talk about the masked ball. Let's stick to the event itself. It's festive. It attracts people from everywhere. It is mostly Americans who would have recreated the event. It is partly a celebration.
However, this is the battle that branded, if I dare say, the people who were there, that is the French, who now number 7 million in North America, where there are 350 million anglophones. They managed to preserve their civil rights and their customs, and their language, with a good degree of effort. This has been an ongoing battle for 250 years because of that defeat, that conquest.
Do you not think that your group was rather insensitive about that?