Monday, March 15, 2010

Is Mario Beaulieu Dastardly Clever or Just an Idiot

The Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal is the oldest radical sovereignist organization in Quebec and is run by Mario Beaulieu.

You may recall that it was this organization that objected to an Anglophone band performing in English at the festivities at the Fete Nationale celebrations last summer, before being humiliated in the press and subsequently, being forced to back down. LINK

Mr. Beaulieu likes to make the rounds of television talk shows promoting the French language and sovereignty in general. He moans and groans at the unfairness of it all and chastises the government for not doing enough to protect French. He spouts all sorts of statistics to support his point of view, which pours forth in an endless font of facts and figures.

Problem is, that most of what he says is either misleading or outright lies.

A speech he gave at the founding convention of the French watchdog group Mouvement Laurentides français came across my RSS reader and just before consigning it to the trash bin, I decided to give it a screening.

Mr. Beaulieu  continued on his "Woe is Me" theme, but as I watched the video, I realized that the things that he was saying, didn't ring true.

Notwithstanding his smooth delivery, the facts he was spouting were not facts at all. This, combined with moronic logic, bad math and faulty assertions and conclusions had me asking myself if this guy was cleverly and deliberately misleading or was he just plain stupid.

Watch the video and make up your own mind. Idiot or Dastardly Clever?
What do you think, please vote?