Maybe 200 years from now they will be reenacting the battle on the plains of Saskatchewan
Now THAT would be irony at its finest (& damn Funny).
Maybe 200 years from now they will be reenacting the battle on the plains of Saskatchewan
The only thing the Kweebeckers worship is the government teat. Separatism is a joke. The separatist leaders claim that this is about French culture but conveniently forget that the French culture has done remarkably well in Canada.
No, what this is really about is Kweebecks diminishing place in Canada. Kweebecks population is falling in proportion to the rest of Canada. They have been becoming more and more politically impotent relevant to their past position within confederation. All the whining from the separatists is nothing more than blackmail, an underhanded attempt to keep the gravy train rolling along and retaining some semblance of power. It's not going to work. The ROC will continue to grow faster than Kweebeck and Kweebeck will take an ever-increasing back seat role in confederation. They are past their glory years. They simply could not afford to separate. They are one of the highest taxed provinces in Canada (if not the highest) and they can't afford to loose the transfers from the feds or the massive amounts of territory up north when the aboriginals take their land and return to Canada. The chance of Kweebeck separating is nil.
The best thing Canada can do is put their foot down and end this nonsense. I don't let my kids act the way the separatists act.
You Quebecois worship a bloddy murderer. Louis Reil was no hero, he was a bloody murderer. in 1870 a British-Canadian Martyr by the name of Thomas Scott was shot and killed personaly by non other then Louis Reil. Louis Reil is nothing but a common criminal and should not only have been hanged but also drawn and quartered as befitting the murderer and traitor he was to Canada.
Did you know how Thomas Scott died!
He was shot twice in the head, One bullet missed but one bullet struke his left cheek and came out near his nose. He was not yet dead and he was placed in a coffin and left to die a slow, painfull and scary death at the hand of your bloddy bastard hero.
His last words were
" For Gods sake take me out of here or kill me"
Thomas Scott was a matyr for the British Empire, The Dominion of Canada, The Orange Order and the Presbytarian Church. Thomas Scott is a hero and not Louis Reil who is a bloddy traitor-murder. Thomas Scott is in Heaven with God and Louis Reil is in Hell with Satan where he is being roasted.
How would you like to be shot and left to die a slow and painfull death in a coffin and never left out.
LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF THOMAS SCOTT HERO OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, HERO OF THE DOMINION OF CANADA, HERO OF THE ORANGE ORDER AND MARYR OF THE PRESBYTARIAN CHURCH.
Not only Louis Reil should have been hanged, all of the Metis Rebels should have been hanged like the god dam traitors they are.
"French Canadians are a people with no literature and no history"
Lord Durham
Lord Durham is an ethnocentric figure of Canada's colonial past who had as much vision as a mole. He planned the assimilation of the Québecois and what happened was the opposite. :thumbup: wow... what a hero...
Lord Durham is an ethnocentric figure of Canada's colonial past who had as much vision as a mole. He planned the assimilation of the Québecois and what happened was the opposite. :thumbup: wow... what a hero...
Durham, it can't be a United Canada if there is no Union.
How about we go with the original solutions and we all become francophone? All the protections Qubec has in place were put there to protect English Canada from being assimilated by the French when they outnumbered the English by a large margin.
"Radical Jack" is also credited with the establishment of responsible government in Canada.....the beginnings of real democracy. That he tried to prevent what is now the over-riding problem of Canadian politics (two peoples, two systems, two philosophies under one roof, two solitudes, as it were) by integrating the whole in a democratic nation shows a little more than "as much vision as a mole"
You are speaking French because of British and Canadian tollerance and benvolance. Had the British and Canada treated the French Language in Canada like how the French Republic treated the German Language in Aslace Lorraine then the French Language will be dead and buried by now. The British did not enforce the recomondations by Lord Durham seriously, had they did this the French Language would have died in 2 generations. The Canadians must copy the French on how to kill the French Language in Quebec and the rest of Canada by instituting draconian laws and shamming the French Canadians into abadoning the French Language and adopting the English Language.
s_lone, congratulations: You are speaking white. I am proud of you. The sooner that all Quebecois are speaking white the better it would be for both the Dominion of Canada and its Province of Quebec.
LONG LIVE A UNITED CANADA
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Well, I'd say that depends on whether it's a question of politics or principal. Let's look at it along a spectrum of the most political interpretation of your question to the most ethical(my biasses, consious or unconscious, of cource, according to my understanding of ethical, but you could always add your comments later).
1. From a simple perspective of raw political force, certainly English Canada, assuming the internatinal community didn't get involved to simplify the scenario here) could end the debate on sovereignty with a simple Canada-wide referendum, Full stop. And if Quebec should declare a path to separation, no matter the percentage of the Quebec population that wants to separate, English Canada could outnumber French Canada by about four to one should push ever come to shove. But one to four would still be able to put up a fight, not to mention that the Royal 22nd regiment is reported to be loyal to Quebec, so I'd assume the same might apply to Quebecois in other branches of the Canadian military, so would certainly lead to all out civil war with English Canada winning, but at what a cost (assuming it was fanaticaly zealously political of course; remember, I'm looking at this along a spectrum). Honestly, however, I doubt many people in either camp is that brutally political.
3. From a perspective of overwhelming political force through alliance building, English and French Canadians, the two single largest ethnic groups in the country, could reach a deal amongst themselves but neglect the indians, whereby the indians are left politically powerless (in theory the Canadian military could have simply annihalated the natives during the Oka crisis with sheer military force). I believe that most Canadians have a higher sense of ethics than that as well.
4. In reality, of course, even if Canadians were that cold-blooded, the UN would certainly intervene. So then we have what we might call pragmatic politics (Right about where I'd say most Canadians stand on the political/ethical scale). That's the Being aware of the overwhelming political, military and economic power of the descendants of the European colonizers of the land, the majority English and French Candians can legimitize their power. Don't forget the natives weren't even allowed to vote prior to the 1960's. By then, their numbers were so depleted through cultural genocide that it could then be considered quite safe to give them the vote without threatening the two dominant ethnic groups. But to continue not giving them the vote would of course hurt Canada's reputation abroad. At that stage, legitimacy could be sytematised through democracy (don't forget, after all, that democracy means nothing more than the will of the majority, and since democracy is drilled to us in the school system, many therefore become blind to the ethics behind historical genocide and theft of land, arguing that majority rule is the ultimate measure of justice in the world). The indians get the vote, so what's the issue? And as for the land? It introduces the myth of Two Founding Nations (that way history can defend the interests of the 'whites', otherwise it could pose a pragmatic threat to the hitorical arguments in favour of the Englihs and French cultures in Quebec). After all, there is no legitimate way to defend the past treatment of the natives, so the best solution is to write it off the history books altogether and to teach the history of Canada starting at the point when the Europeans arrived. How convenient. As for the Oka crisis, again the federal government had to consider international public opinion, and so decided to deal with the situation more humanely, always knowing that it didn't really matter because the 'whites' were just such an ovewhelming majority anyway, and the democratic system that was in place would naturally benefit the majority through a legitimate structure.
4. Then we come to the ethical stage. Obviously we need to be consistent with our arguments, so if the argument is that historical presence therefore proves ownership, then I suppose from that standpoint the natives ought to have the final say as to what Canada's borders will look like. That would mean many different countries scattered across the Canadian landscape, each allowing travel through the land, regardless what the majority thinks, since that would be a matter of history, not democracy. According to democracy, the English Canadians ought to have the final say because of its majority. So it seems that if the Quebecois want to win a legitimate argument in favour of sovereignty, it wil need to fight on a different front. The only front I could think of would be to fight the sovereignist cause on the ethical front. That would mean acknowledging the natives and their history and therefore not use democracy as a political weapon against them. Yet justice would also imply that 'whites' ought to have rights likewise. But then, if Quebec renounces democracy and history in its arguments, it must therefore respect other immigrant communities as well (after all, just as Englich canada woud renounce the use of democratic force against Quebec, so certainly teh just thing to do would be for Quebec to reciprocate. And if Quebec has renounced history in its argument, then the Quebecois must acknowlede that their culture is a foreign culture to Quebec likewise). So what's left would be a province which must respect all cultures equally, regardless of history or majority. The result would be that the native and immigrant languages would have to be given equal respect. But obviously it's not possible to have 60 odd official languages, laws and legal sytems, education system, etc. So to some gegree all sides would need to agree through genuine consultation on a common education system, legal system, and culture et. that all cultural groups could agree to regardless of their percentage representation in the population or their history.
In the end, if the Quebec sovereignist movement can rise above historical mythology and the legitimization of political power under the name of democracy, and build a truly just society, then I'd certainly support the sovereignis camp. At the moment, however, it seems English Canada is winning that game (after all, what I'd seen at the Quebec local library a few years ago would never have been acceptable in English Canada; the section 'Religion' contained books on Catholicism only, and all other books relating to religion fell under the section 'other religions'!). So certainly the sovereignist camp could win my support, but it's got some catching up to do.
Canada and Anglo-Quebecers will choke the life out of the Quebecois rebels. Canada will invade Quebec by 3 Fronts
WESTERN FRONT
Royal Canadian Armed Forces will invade the Province of Quebec from the Province of Ontario
EASTERN FRONT
Royal Canadian Armed Forces will invade the Province of Quebec from the Maritime Provinces
HOME FRONT
Anglo-Quebec Militia Forces will strike the Quebecois Forces form with in the Province of Quebec.
I predict that a Civil War in Canada would be over in 2-6 Months....
More like 20-60 years.
Regardless of who won, bombs would be flying and going off in mailboxes and parked cars for decades.
Quebec sucks....well that is more than my last girlfriend did.
OH! I'm sorry...did I actually type that?
sheeesh
The way to stop terrorism after the victory of Canada over Quebecois Rebels is
01. Try all Leaders of the Parti Quebecois and their Military wing the FLQ (Sentencing them to Death, Life in Prisonment, Various Long Prison Terms)
LONG LIVE A UNITED CANADA
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Me i say to you and all stupids canadians who believe in your stupidity, go **** yourself and same for your elisabitch the queen, comprendez???
How old are you?