Quebec’s profound isolation

s_lone

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JOHN IBBITSON
Quebec’s profound isolation
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
Published Wednesday, Aug. 03, 2011 2:00AM EDT

News that the NDP’s interim leader was, until recently, a card-carrying member of the Bloc Québécois reinforces a new and troubling truth: Quebec’s voice is weaker in Ottawa today than at any time in the past half-century – which is bad for Quebec and dangerous for the country...

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Quebec’s profound isolation - The Globe and Mail
 

petros

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"I know some people don't like it, it's a loss of National Sovereignty but it is a simple reality". Stephen Harper - G20 Toronto, 2010

If it's too late for Canada the bus left a decade ago for PQ. No point worrying now.
 

dumpthemonarchy

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He writes,

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Ontario is now a Pacific province. Its major cities have large Asian-Canadian populations; India and China matter far, far more to its economic future than Britain or France; its voters vote the same way as westerners
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Ontario is now a Pacific province because of immigrants? Immigration is making China and India more important he says. I mean, why are the UK and France so important to him? No evidence is presented. It is a throwaway paragraph in a discussion about Quebec.

China matters to Western Canada's economic future due to the large amount of natural resources being shipped there. But that has little to do with Asian immigrants. But because they vote like Westerners, who live in the region that ships the resources, they make Ontario a Pacific province. You know, India is not even on the Pacific Ocean, or Alberta, or Manitoba.

If you're looking for a huge supporter of the current immigration policy, look no further.
 

petros

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You know, India is not even on the Pacific Ocean, or Alberta, or Manitoba.

If you're looking for a huge supporter of the current immigration policy, look no further.
Manitoba is connected to the Arctic Ocean. So is Ontario. Would you prefer Russian immigrants?