Let me explain the difference. Harper only needed the votes of one out of the three opposition parties to give him the votes to pass any bill. That removes the power of the BQ to unilaterally force the fall of the government, or to hold the government hostage to its demands for whatever it wants. A coalition of Libs NDP and BQ against 150 Conservatives will require the votes of ALL THREE parties, making the BQ very powerful, very capable of blackmail, as they could make the gov't fall anytime they please.
You just can't get your mind around the fact that today's BQ isn't about separation... it's about regionalism. It's no different than if the Wild Rose party of Alberta were to go federal, and it's no great mystery what they're going to require for their compliance... whatever bill passes, it can't hurt Quebec.
You really don't understand our system, do you....lol. First of all, the forty-odd BQ members are NOT working for the "greater good of their country" because they do NOT consider Canada their "country'. Their ONLY reason to be there is to undermine and weaken and eventually destroy Canada. Just ask them.
I think you're the one who needs to ask them. Join some french forums, use Bablefish, and find out what the average Quebecker is actually talking about these day.
They know darn good and well they're getting a better deal out of life being part of Canada than trying to go it alone.
But I think you don't want to learn something like that. I think your testosterone gets wound up thinking about things in the Bouchard days, and you don't want to lose that rush of hatred.
You're not alone. There's lots of people who need something to hate in order to keep going.
It boils down to psychology and how there's three basic emotions: love hate and fear, and like handedness, everyone will tend to favor one over the others.
Some favor love, and they're the ones who think all problems can be solved with empathy and kindness. They're constantly getting bit in the hand by offering olive branches to the wolverine-type characters dominated by hate.
Then there's the people dominated by fear. They're the ones you can get to line up in brown shirts with swastikas on their arm bands if the economy's going bad and they're afraid of starving and you can convince them the ones causing it are some ethnic minority.
i don't want to pay for a political propaganda machine posing as a social benefit.
You're funny. Polls have been done about that, and it turns out 50% of listeners think CBC is too far right, while 50% think it's too far left, which means that actually, the programmers are pegging it right in the middle.
And I don't see how you'd call it a political propaganda machine. When I listen to it, what I notice most is that I *don't* have to listen to advertising, which is a form of propaganda, and I don't have to listen to news filtered by commercial interests, which gives me headaches when I think about what's being reported and try to fit it into what I know about macro-economics and macro-sociology.
And I listen to CBC radio constantly.
That is how I know how biased it is.
If it didn't get your dander up, would you still listen to it?