Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Quebec Health Minister Needs a Second Opinion

Back in 1959, the Quebec government opened one of Quebec's first toll roads, the 'Autoroute de Laurentides,' which still today connects Montreal to the Laurentian communities north of the city.

The road, when ultimately completed, boasted five toll plaza's which charged 25¢ each per vehicle, a  princely sum at the time. The charge remained unchanged until the early 1980's.

At that point the government bean counters, mindful that the price hadn't been raised in over twenty years calculated that if the toll was raised to 50¢, the government would more than double their revenues.

Well, it didn't work out that way. Motorists were furious at the enormous increase and many refused to pay. They viewed the doubling of the tolls as a commuter cash grab and were furious.
The toll plazas were old and weren't equipped with mechanical arms that came down to act as a barrier until payment was effected. The system was a simple red light/green light affair with a bell and flashing red light triggered in the case where a motorist stiffed on the payment. Supposedly, a police car parked in reserve would pursue and ticket the offender.
But the volume of scofflaws became enormous and it was impossible for the police to cope. At a certain point, it became hugely embarrassing to the government and action had to be taken in order to maintain public order. The government, had no choice but to re-build the toll plazas to incorporate barrier arms, but balked at the cost and more importantly feared the backlash that such an action would engender.
So they did the only thing that they could. They got rid of the tolls completely and went from a 25¢ toll to 50¢ and then to nothing.

Another planning fiasco that failed to take into consideration that people act in their own self interest and that paper predictions are almost always flawed. Perhaps our bean counters should remember the old adage-
"Men Plan, God laughs."

Nothing seems to have changed over these last twenty-five years.

The government continues to make decisions based on statistics, figures and data that rarely takes into consideration the human element.
The recent expanded parental leave program is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget because the government failed to account that an increased number of citizens would take advantage of the program's very generous provisions. 

Now we hear that the health department is considering cutting the amount of specialist doctors in Montreal because the city has a higher per capita ratio of specialists as compared to the outlying regions. The rumour is that the government won't offer new positions in Montreal, and won't even replace doctors who retire, with the stated goal of reducing the specialist population of Montreal by ten percent. Link
The Montreal Gazette reacted harshly to this news. The newspaper rightly pointed out that the 400 odd doctors involved won't just shuffle off to the boonies to accept jobs, far from their families and friends.They have choices and between Boston, New York, Ottawa and Val D'Or, it isn't much of a decision. It isn't easy to predict how many will leave, but since the bulk of the affected doctors are anglos, it is safe to assume it will be a pretty strong majority. Link

Now many believe that the Health department is oblivious to the effect that this potential new policy will have on the Montreal health scene. They believe that the government is making another decision that is bound to backfire due to faulty planning once again.

But they who believe that,would be wrong.

The health department understands very well that their policy will trigger an anglo doctor exodus.

IT'S WHAT THEY WANT!

Really,....

Way back in April, I wrote a piece warning that government bean counters were getting ready to reduce the number of specialists, practising in the province.  Read the Story           

In the jaded and skewed view of the health department, they want Montrealers to have the same bad service that the rest of the province enjoys, believing that the Montreal specialists are a luxury. By reducing the specialists in Montreal, some will go transfer to the boonies and some some will leave. According to estimates, the freed up money could then be spent on family doctors, of which the province is in dire need.

The department may or may not have their math right, but I highly doubt it, their track record on estimates is not that good. Readjusting and redeploying forces should never be accomplished by reducing effectives, not in the health field.
It's as if a general finds out that he has too much cavalry and not enough foot soldiers, so he tells the horsemen to go home. Surely there's a better way. These soldiers cost a lot to train and once they are withdrawn, they are lost forever.
Getting rid of professionals that you have paid a fortune to train makes little sense and short term solutions, like axing trained professionals usually comes back to haunt governments.

In 1996, when the Bouchard government offered early retirement packages to public workers as part of its deficit-slashing efforts, 3,200 nurses took the buyout. Today Quebec finds itself in a desperate nursing shortage which developed very quickly after the buyouts.  Enough said? Source

The government may have decided that they have too many specialists and not enough family doctors, but they've done nothing on the supply side to fix the problem.

Quebec medical schools are still pumping out the same amount of specialists as before, in spite of the fact that there will be no where for them to practice except outside Quebec, if the government goes through with its plans. Does that make an ounce of sense?

This is where Quebec planners fail miserably, their knee jerk reactions to fluid situations and their  ill-conceived remedies, lead to disaster after disaster.

I have told politicians and anyone who would listen that if the province wants to re-balance the specialist/family doctor ratio it has to start in the medical schools.

A  good first step would be to convert one of Quebec's existing medical schools to become a specialized institution that offers a family doctor program only, where everyone who enters would be trained to be a family doctor and a family doctor alone. The focused training would likely speed up the process and perhaps knock a year off the standard four year program. In fact such a focused program could turn out the finest family doctors in the world.
Don't worry, there'd be plenty of applicants, between being a family doctor or being no doctor at all, the choice for students is obvious. The Quebec family doctor shortage would likely be halved within five years and eliminated in ten. SHAZZAM!!

The specialists would continue to graduate, but on a reduced basis and time will balance everything out. Nobody should be fired or deprived of a job.

But that makes too much sense. Its too simple.

This is Quebec, so we need another plan.

45 comments:

  1. There needs to be a way to hold the government health officials accountable for years beyond their mandated term with financial penalty or criminal charges of negligence causing harm to the detriment of the lives of many Quebec citizens. These revolving door Quebec health ministers come in and slash and burn health care professionals with little regard for the public they serve. These government bureaucrats then move on to greener governmental pastures, taking their lucrative pensions with them, while rationalizing their careless decisions, as any con artist with a similar lack of remorse or lack of guilt for the wrath of hell and suffering patients created by their decisions.
    These Health Ministers continue to make faulty decisions that affect the lives of citizens in a very negative way, which leave the public more vulnerable to harm, injury, impairment or delay of treatment by reducing the number of health care specialists in an already over burdened health care system.
    These government officials make decisions without regard for the human element and only consider the cost constraints. The reduction in the number of the specialists is about cost containment. Less specialists in Montreal means less patients will be seen and treated, therefore the government will be charged less and save more money. They know physicians will not move to the outlying regions. They have super nurses that are in the pipeline for saving the remote areas. There is tele-health that is able to provide physician expertise to the outlying regions without having to leave the comfort of their Montreal Health Care center. It is just an excuse to say they need more specialists in the outlying areas. If they force the specialists to work in the remote areas, it will be a waste of skilled expertise to fewer patients in rural areas, which is needed in the major metropolitan city. If there are patients who need specialists, they can use telehealth. If not suitable for telehealth, it means their health is serious enough for them to warrant attention in a major medical center and need to come to the city.
    The only government rationing that needs to be considered for the best interest of all is the severe rationing and eliminating the number of bureaucratic positions in the top heavy Quebec government. This is where the responsible cost cutting initiatives should take place.

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  2. Re the nurses taking early retirement: I'll bet half of them were young and able to speak English. Smart nurses! They could take their packages and relocate...to the nurse-hungry U.S. that is constantly coming north of the border to recruit.

    Re the Anglophone doctors: Hey! I took the plunge (not much of one, really) and relocated down the 401 myself over 25 years ago. Like the Bekins Van Co. slogan says: "It's the smartest move you'll ever make!" Hopefully, this means I won't be able to thank the Quebec Ministry of Health enough for sending all those badly needed specialists down the path I beat for them a generation ago!

    Like it is written on our license plates, Ontario will be theirs to discover! Believe me, they'll be happier here and glad they came!

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  3. As a separate issue:

    By Autoroute des Laurentides, you mean A-15 North? Whomever designed that highway needs to be summarily executed, particularly regarding the mess of an interchange between A-15 and A-40 - the Decarie Interchange.

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  4. Being a bilingual, Quebec trained specialist, who is one year shy of graduating, and who was planning on remaining in Montreal, I could tell that this news was very difficult to hear.
    I agree with the tone of the article, as well as the comments, but I believe it is worse than you may think.
    Our system is overloaded and a reduction in any hospital employee, be them specialists, nurses or even lab techs could cripple the system.
    We allready get paid the least in Canada, and for the most part, work in relativly poor working conditions. Removing 10% of the specialists will add work to already overworked, staff and result in more than anticipated defections and burn outs (In my program of 20 residents we have had 2 burnouts in the last 3 years alone). When those defectors leave the system they cause even more work and this vicious circle will continue to spiral downward. A couple of people will die needlessly and a different party (ie. the PQ) will use this as a talking point to win an election.
    The only way to solve this problem is for the government to pay a fair wage to work off island, but that will never happen.

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  5. ''Faux. Le recensement de 2006 le confirme: par tête de pipe, nos Anglos gagnent toujours plus. ''M. Castonguay http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/emploi/293648/libre-opinion-les-anglos-demeurent-champions-des-gros-salaires

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  6. HEY YOU! Mr. 10:00AM: This is an ENGLISH blog, so you may address your racist nationalism and how the ENGLISH are still allegedly ripping your kind off in ENGLISH!

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  7. YO! Dr. Dave! You'd be a bloody fool to stay in Quebec. If you want to stay nearby, I'm sure your services will be welcome in places like Cornwall, Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill or even Ottawa! Alfred, Alexandria and Rockland are good places, too, and you can continue to use your French. Outside of Ottawa, the cost of living is cheap, you'd be a sight for sore eyes (esp. if you're studying opthalmology!) and you'd be an hour's drive from Montreal.

    OHIP will pay you MUCH better and your taxes are less. You should realize that in Quebec, if you reach your compensation cap and try to stop working at that point, RAMQ will claw back your compensation if you dare stop working just because you've hit your cap. RAMQ will nickel and dime you to death! No Xmas vacations for you, amigo! Imagine...if you don't work for free, you get penalized! As far as I'm concerned, it's a no-brainer.

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  8. Troy:

    Whoever designed the elevated part of Hwy 40 should be hung like Saddam Hussein was, right under its girders! Ontario highways are way, way better designed--longer entry and exit ramps, easily accessible left-turn lanes and a red light delay at intersections.

    Quebec has NONE of that on ANY of its highways and intersections! Left turn lanes are short and you have to move into them abruptly, on the elevated Metropolitan Blvd., you go up that ramp and shoot your way into traffic or hit the barrier head-on right at the top of the ramp, and the traffic light infrastructure is so STUPID that they have to put up brainless signs reading «ATTENDEZ LE FEU VERT» (Wait for the green signal)! That's as stupid as putting up signs that read the sky is blue and the grass is green! Makes me think people in Quebec need breathing tutors!

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  9. 'nos Anglos gagnent toujours plus'

    Such a revealing choice of words. Didn't realize that Quebec Anglos were regarded as one of the Quebecois' possesions; how paternalistic.

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  10. To Anonymous said... August 3, 2010 1:40 PM

    ''HEY YOU! Mr. 10:00AM: This is an ENGLISH blog, so you may address your racist nationalism and how the ENGLISH are still allegedly ripping your kind off in ENGLISH!'' A good example of a open mind anglophone zealot ! Le bilinguisme c'est pas seulement pour les francophones de ce pays !

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  11. To Anonymous August 3, 2010 3:14 PM said...

    'nos Anglos gagnent toujours plus'

    '' Such a revealing choice of words. Didn't realize that Quebec Anglos were regarded as one of the Quebecois' possesions; how paternalistic.''

    Nous reconnaissons seulement votre existence dans l'identité québécoise. Si vous ne vous reconnaissez pas comme Québécois, c'est votre problème !:) Québec is not a Canadian possession but a part of, you understand the difference ?

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  12. To Anonymous, August 3 2010 6:04 PM
    'nos Anglos gagnent toujours plus'

    '' Such a revealing choice of words. Didn't realize that Quebec Anglos were regarded as one of the Quebecois' possesions; how paternalistic.''

    Nous reconnaissons seulement votre existence dans l'identité québécoise. Si vous ne vous reconnaissez pas comme Québécois, c'est votre problème !:) Québec is not a Canadian possession but a part of, you understand the difference ?

    Je m’excuse à avoir à éclater votre bulle, mais ceci représente exactement le sens paternaliste des québécois envers leurs minorité anglophone. Les québécois attendent seulement que les anglos s’identifient comme étant québécois si ils abandonnent essentiellement leur langue et leur façon de vivre (ironique car cela représente aussi le noyau du complexe d'infériorité des péquistes). Comment pensez-vous que la communauté anglophone peut se voir comme étant “québécois” quand ils sont calomniés de bord à bord comme étant des oppresseurs colonialistes, des exploiteurs d'ouvriers, des impérialistes Rhodésiens, et toutes autres insultes invalides pour leurs faire sentir comme non seulement ils n’appartiennent pas au Québec, mais aussi que les québécois les voient comme étant juste du monde à s’en débarrassé si ils osent continuer le grand crime de parler leurs propre langue à la maison, avec leurs amis et en publique. C’est encore plus ironique car le seul circonstance dans lequel les péquistes parlent pour le bien-être de la communauté anglophone, c’est bien sûr dans le contexte après une séparation avec le Canada (ce qui revient aux anglais comme étant le plus sale insulte imaginable; ce qui est une réaction compréhensible après qu’on voit comment ils sont traités par du monde comme vous). Et vous vous demander pourquoi les anglos ne s’identifient pas comme étant québécois? Et non, c’est pas “leurs” problèmes, c’est le problème des deux communautés. Si vous êtes vraiment sérieux à voir la communauté anglophone comme étant un aspect importante de l'identité québécoise, vous ne pouvez pas juste vous lavez les mains de cette question, sans avoir l’air complètement hypocrite.

    Apporter la notion que le Québec n’est pas une possession canadienne mais une partie de l’ensemble représente aussi l’aspect des séparatistes à faire des moqueries de l’histoire canadienne. Bien sure que le Québec fait partie du Canada! Sinon, comment expliquer que la province qui reçoit le plus en milliards de dollars en paiements d'égalisations selon les lois de distributions de ceux-ci peut-être considéré comme une possession opprimée? C’est juste une autre exemple que les séparatistes ne seront jamais content. Le plus que les canadiens donnent, au détriment des citoyens canadiens anglais (c’est l’avenir de leurs enfants et leurs bien-être qu’ils sacrifient pour maintenir le Québec dans la confédération) le plus qu’ils reçoivent une gifle collective des québécois comme étant que ces sacrifices ne sont pas assez. Et vous vous demander pourquoi ils deviennent de plus en plus hostiles à du monde qui partagent votre point de vue?

    So to answer your question: No, it is you who does not understand the difference. But that is okay; for the most rabid separatists, not understanding that difference is essential to justify your continued demonization of Canada and of Quebec’s English community.

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  13. To Networked_Gestalt_Intellect August 3, 2010 8:01 PM : Personne ne vous demande de renoncer à qui vous êtes, seulement vous habitez le Québec, vous êtes québécois de facto ! Parlez votre langue n'importe ou, je ne crois pas que cela est remis en question. Par contre, vouloir imposer le bilinguisme institutionnel, commercial et vouloir un système d'éducation basé sur le libre choix (en sachant très bien que nombre d'individus vont allés étudier en anglais, alors que la majorité québécoise est à 80% francophones) vous savez que cela ne fait qu'imposer un plus grand usage de l'anglais ! Votre mauvaise foi est grande !

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  14. L'indépendance n'est pas une affaire d'argent

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  15. This site has some very good articles. Others seem to agree or else they won't come here to discuss the subject matters at hand. I've noticed in the past few articles a certain level of trolling on the part of one or maybe two french posts intent on alienating posters and readers.

    Please, if you want to be a troll, GO THE FUCK AWAY, and troll with your fucked up kind on some other site. If you can't post on the subject at hand.

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  16. "Please, if you want to be a troll, GO THE FUCK AWAY, and troll with your fucked up kind on some other site. If you can't post on the subject at hand."

    I could recommend vigile.net as a start...for the troll.

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  17. Bonuses for working off island? This has been requested by regions a long time ago and it has always been a big no no.

    Au Québec, tout le monde égal: au fond du trou!

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  18. To Anonymous AUGUST 3, 2010 9:43 PM

    Personne ne vous demande de renoncer à qui vous êtes, seulement vous habitez le Québec, vous êtes québécois de facto !

    Ah oui ? C’est toujours bien que j’arrive à me faire enseigner sur ce sujet après avoir vécu toute ma vie au Québec. Fac ce qui fait un québécois c’est tout simplement d’avoir eu la chance d’être née au Québec ? Ca c’est bizarre, je n’aurais jamais penser que d’appartenir a une société était tout simplement limitée à notre lieu de naissance. Bon bien merci de m’en avoir informer. Évidemment, quand Pierre Falardeau a demandé à tous les anglos fédéralistes de partir du Québec, il voulait juste leurs inviter pour de la poutine et à lui donner de la compagnie pour regarder ses films dans son garage. Ou quand Louise Harel a dit aux habitants de Westmount d’êtres des colonialistes quand ils avaient résister d’être forcement fusionnée à la ville de Montréal (attends une minute la… une minorité qui résiste d’être absorbée dans une majorité…hmmm, d’où c’est que j’ai déjà lu sur un tel scénario ?) Ou peut-être j’ai aussi juste rêvé de la fois ou la RRQ avaient protesté la présence de chanteurs anglophones à l’autre Saint-Jean, ou à la parade de Saint Patrick.

    Non non non qu’es ce que je dis, les québécois, avant tout, on toujours démontrer leurs capacités d’accepter les différences de toutes cultures et ethnies de façon raisonnable.

    "C'est vrai, c'est vrai qu'on a été battus, au fond, par quoi? Par l'argent puis des votes ethniques, essentiellement."

    -Jacques Parizeau

    Ah je dois avouer que celle-là est peut-être un peu trop dérisoire. Jacques Parizeau sait quand même très bien parler l’anglais. Il a même avoué qu’il n’aime pas avoir a forcer l’issue de la langue en ce qui concerne les divisions entre les communautés québécoises. C’est triste alors que lorsque c’était le moment de le démontrer à la fin de 2ième referendum, il ne pouvais tout simplement pas montrer l’exemple de ce qu’il déclare comme étant ses valeurs.

    Et cela est pas mal le cœur de mon point. Vous pensez que je fais mes arguments de mauvaise foie ? Le but d’une communauté c’est justement se sentir comme si on y appartient. Qu’on peut faire confiance dans nos voisins quand on en a besoin et que ce sentiment est réciproque. Et quand l’atmosphère est empoisonnée par les élites que les péquistes élisent encore et encore, vous ne pouvez pas dire que les anglos peuvent se sentir comme si ils appartiennent. Les seuls qui sont de mauvaise foie sont ceux qui disent que les anglos appartiennent quand c’est conviant et font toute pour détruire ce sens d’appartenance à toute autre instant. Tout simplement, les anglos ne se sentent pas québécois car les péquistes ont tout déjà choisit pour eux qu’ils ne le sont pas (même quand ils prennent la peine d’apprendre le français !). Et ça c’est la pire exemple de mauvaise foie.


    To Anonymous AUGUST 3, 2010 9:44 PM

    They you can most certainly show a good example and give all that money back...

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  19. Nous reconnaissons seulement votre existence dans l'identité québécoise. Si vous ne vous reconnaissez pas comme Québécois, c'est votre problème !:) Québec is not a Canadian possession but a part of, you understand the difference ?

    Say what? I think this blog has attracted a confused idiot.

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  20. Good post for posterity. Thanks for keeping tabs on the insanity. This is another glaring example of how the Quebecois are letting the Franco-zealots turn Montreal into a second rate ethnocentric backwater, just like the rest of the province. Nationalism trumps all in Quebec, even sanity.

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  21. To anonymous August 4, 2010 11:22 AM: Maybe you just don't understand the subtlety ? It's o.k., I explain you fast: Canada is a federation where there's 10 provinces and 3 territories. The federal government (Canada)SHARE powers with the provincial governments (BC, Ont,QC,Manitoba, Saskt,Alberta, N-S, N-B, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince-Edward island) and three territories (Nunavut, Yukon and Northwest territories). If Québec leave the federation, Québec still exist, with his territory, his population. Canada is built on the Union of all his provinces and territories ? It's more easy to understand ? Vous ne pratiquez pas souvent la gymnastique intellectuelle ? Prenez un abonnement à la Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec !:)

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  22. To anonymous August 4, 2010 11:22 AM The confused idiots that suggest to vote for Tremblay because Louise Harel was pékisse ? Who was it ? :)

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  23. What a site of Anglo zealots !?!%?

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  24. @ Anonymous at 4:15 PM, 4:23 PM, 4:24 PM:

    What the fuck are you doing when you place a colon after a question mark (?:) or an exclamation mark (!:). Do you have any knowledge of proper punctuation?

    You are obviously not an asset to either Canada or Quebec. I suggest that you return to Colombia and pick coffee beans there.

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  25. To anonymous August 4, 2010 5:43 PM ''You are obviously not an asset to either Canada or Quebec. I suggest that you return to Colombia and pick coffee beans there.'' Racist guy !"$?$ (I replace punctuation by swear in english)

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  26. "Bien sure que le Québec fait partie du Canada! Sinon, comment expliquer que la province qui reçoit le plus en milliards de dollars en paiements d'égalisations"

    Compensation pour dommages causés.

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  27. "Au Québec, tout le monde égal: au fond du trou!"

    Belle mentalité M.derteilzeitberliner ,ne comptez pas sur moi .Beaucoup de gens au Québec veulent justement se sortir du trou et c'est pas avec des idées comme ça qu'on va s'en sortir.Si voulez pas apprendre l'Anglais et rester au fond du trou comme vous dites,c'est votre fucking problème.OK!Restez avec votre si précieux français dans votre trou,nous voulons apprendre l'anglais,est-ce un crime

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  28. Je constate avec tristesse que les anlos sont incapables d'admettre que la langue est un éléments culturels importants sinon le plus important.C'est un marqueur identitaire qu'ils ne semblent reconnaître que dans un sens.Ils ne comprennent ou n'acceptent simplement pas que nous soyons une nation Francophone.Comment voulez-vous être chinois sans parler Chinois?
    Étrange et plutôt surprenant après tant d'années, n'est-ce pas?Je crois qu'il est temps de rétablir les forces fondamentales de la loi 101.

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  29. To Anonymous at 3:07 PM:

    If the French language and the Quebecois culture are too weak to stand on their own, without artificial assistance, then perhaps it would be better if they both disappear into the dustbin of history.

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  30. "If the French language and the Quebecois culture are too weak to stand on their own, without artificial assistance, then perhaps it would be better if they both disappear into the dustbin of history."

    Ce qui est réel présentement c'est qu'on vous a presque fait disparaître complètement de notre envronnement (pollution linguistique comme on dit entre nous) assez rapidement: Environ 30 ans,pas mal non? Et vous avez les droits qu'on veut bien vous donnez,Ça c'est du concret.Nous dirigerons le Canada jusqu'a l'obtention de notre pays.Vous n'avez aucun pouvoir sur nous.On est blindé!

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  31. @ anon7:14

    "...artificial assistance" dans un "pays" artificiel.

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  32. "Vous n'avez aucun pouvoir sur nous.On est blindé!"

    It is just a matter of time before the Canadian army is sent into Quebec again like Pierre Trudeau did during the October Crisis. We'll kick your ass!

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  33. "It is just a matter of time before the Canadian army is sent into Quebec again like Pierre Trudeau did during the October Crisis. We'll kick your ass!"

    Dites leurs de passer avec leurs hélicoptères au dessus du Québec et y'a de bonne chance qu'elles s'écrasent sans raison apparente et tuent quelques vaches en Estrie.What a photo hahaha you made my day guy!

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  34. Quebec had to call in the Canadian army during the Oka Crisis because the pansies at the Surete du Quebec couldn't handle the situation. The Indians sure did a number on the SQ. I can't wait to see Quebec try to separate...the Natives will go to war with the frogs in order to keep their reserves within Canada.

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  35. "the Natives will go to war with the frogs in order to keep their reserves within Canada."

    On va les débrancher de notre puissance hydro-électrique.clic!Tous les plumés dans l'obscurité et dans le froid glacial.On reprend nos ski-doo et nos 4 roues(Bombardier).HA!HA!HA!HA! vous voyez le tableau!

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  36. "On va les débrancher de notre puissance hydro-électrique.clic!"

    The natives will blow up the hydro dams and sabotage the hydro lines in the remote areas where these installations are based (and where many natives live). Then the Quebec frogs will freeze in the dark!

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  37. "Then the Quebec frogs will freeze in the dark!"

    Ainsi qu'une bonne partie de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.Square head!

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  38. "Ainsi qu'une bonne partie de la Nouvelle-Angleterre."

    Then the Americans will have to invade (and annex) Quebec in order to get the hydro-electric installations running again with their Army Corps of Engineers.

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  39. Bonne nouvelle!Si c'est la seule façon de se débarasser des canayens.

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  40. When the Americans annex Quebec, you will no longer have separatist parties or language laws at all. You will no longer receive any equalization payments. You will no longer control your natural resources (like hydro power). And your children will be sent to English schools like the Cajuns in Louisiana.

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    1. This is exactly what these Turkeys need.

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  41. "When the Americans annex Quebec, you will no longer have separatist parties or language laws at all. You will no longer receive any equalization payments. You will no longer control your natural resources (like hydro power). And your children will be sent to English schools like the Cajuns in Louisiana."

    Hmmmm....Ça me plaît!Pourvu que je ne sois plus associé aux Canadiens.Aucun problème!

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  42. I don't think so. You have expressed your virulent hatred for Americans (along with Canadians) in past comments.

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  43. I think this country has yielded way too much. Bilingualism is fine as a secondary language or within the confines of a household but when it becomes twisted within the confines of law, politics, professions..etc, it becomes a problem. I am an allophone and have no problem accepting that this country run under its original language format. I think assholes that consider themselves separatists should be stomped out as treasonous SOBs. This is the best way to put this shit to rest.

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  44. The residents will strike up the hydro public works and destroy the hydro collections in the distant places where these set ups are centered (and where many residents live). Then the Quebec, canada, frogs will lock up in the dark!

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