Something About Canadian Identity

I just finished reading a Canadian Press article about the current weather situation in Canada. Apparently some people are worried that the warm weather the country is experiencing will have an effect on our national identity. That's a valid point. When I tell people I'm from Canada, the cold winters topic usually comes up. What got me in this article was a comment from a Montreal man interviewed by CP:

“A lot of Canadians and Quebecers go down to Florida in winter and that doesn’t put the national identity in peril,” says Veillette on a break from a bike ride in the city’s Mount Royal Park.

While people do ask me about Canadian winters, it's not usually their first question. Ranking as the first or sometimes second question is "So, do you speak French?" Pretty much every Korean I've spoken to knows that Canada has two national languages. It's part of our identity. What does put our "national identity in peril"? How about Canadians referring to Canada and Quebec as being two separate places. Couldn't Veillette just have said "A lot of Canadians go down to Florida..."? As countries such as Korea struggle with their national identity, I should hope that Canadians realize theirs.