Quebec Bashing....You're Welcome!

Beaulieu and his out of touch silver-haired followers

When I was in the 8th grade, the schoolyard bully terrorized a bunch of weaklings and finally, fed up, a couple of the victims chipped in and paid an Eleventh grader to put a hurt on him.

After the thrashing, the bully complained to the school principal about the beating and was told in no uncertain terms that he basically got what he deserved.

And so, as Quebec's most prolific Anglo and Ethnic basher Mario Beaulieu is complaining that Quebec is getting rough treatment at the hands of the dastardly English press, I don't know whether to  laugh or .....wait....laugh.

For once I actually agree with him, Quebec is certainly getting bashed in the English media, but deservedly so, like the schoolyard bully who can't understand the concept of payback, complaining about it only makes the revenge that much sweeter.

I don't know what type of fantasy world he and the hundred and one idiots who signed the manifesto live in, but it must be a place where you can enter the boxing ring, throw punch after punch and expect no retort.

To those of you who believe that Quebec is being unfairly vilified, you're only half right, Quebec is being vilified, but not unfairly. For forty years Quebec nationalists have savagely bashed Canada, while Canadians have patiently indulged their bad manners.
As the old joke goes, a divorce court judge asks a man why he wants a divorce after forty years of marriage...
'Enough is enough.'

Perhaps I should have titled this piece "When bashers get bashed" which is essentially what is happening after years upon years of merciless Canada and Anglo bashing across Quebec.

See more examples of anglo-bashing HERE

You can't turn on a French television news show without enduring diatribe after diatribe, denigrating Canada, the evil English language and the colonialist Anglos who have exploited Quebec for 250 years.

This incessant bashing is so omnipresent in Quebec that most people don't notice.

On Sunday Pauline Marois gave a speech in Monaco to a room of businesspeople and trashed Canada over the environment, telling the room that Ottawa is out of step with the world, while Quebec is on board with climate change. She took particular joy in Canada-bashing and her manner was just about as nasty as nasty could be. Link{fr}

Could you imagine the stink if Prime Minister Harper gave a speech in Europe describing Quebec as a financial drag on Canada, a province which cannot control spending and which remains dependent on the rich provinces for charity?
It's funny how things look from the opposite perspective.

Those who complain about Quebec-bashing by Canada, are extraordinary hypocrites.
Mario Beaulieu complaining about Quebec-bashing, is like Hitler complaining that the Jews never supported him.
And yes, I'll make plenty of Nazi references here so that in the next edition of Beaulieu's Quebec-bashers, I too can proudly make the list.

Mario Beaulieu is a man who complains that Jewish, English and other foreign proper names shouldn't be allowed on stores in Quebec and encourages his followers to boycott them.
He is a man who has complained that English Churches should post their announcements in French and that French students be barred from English cegep, à la apartheid.

He is a  man who calls for the boycott of stores like "TONY HILL FINGER" and "BELL CANADA."
Who but an idiot doesn't know that the name is Tommy Hilfiger  and who but a deceiver pretends not to know that Bell got rid of the 'Canada' in its name in Quebec, ages ago?

Watch a video of Beaulieu asking a parade of like minded racists to boycott stores like Birks because they are English-named, just like 'Tony Hill Finger.'
He magnanimously tells marchers that it's okay to shop at LEVI'S, as long as it is pronounced LEE-VEE.
I'm not making this up.  Watch the video  or read my post about the parade

It's becoming clearer and clearer that except for a handful of hardcore xenophobic ethnocentrics, Mario Beaulieu is becoming an embarrassment to the mainstream sovereignty movement which apparently wants nothing to do with the hate that he and his minion spew on a daily basis.

I promised a critique of his campaign to indict English Canada for so-called Quebec bashing, but a cursory examination of the 101 signatories on his manifesto had me scratching my head at the utter banality of the list. 
Almost all are unrecognizable to this author, and I am someone who aced a perfect score in the Gazette quiz on recognizing French 'stars.'

Of those I did recognize, a few names popped, including Gilles Proulx, Quebec's most recognizable Anglo and Native-basher, as well as Tania Longpré, the failed PQ candidate who called for the Jewish General Hospital to change its name.
As they say, people in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.
The rest of the list is two-thirds filled with zartistes and writers, the rest separatist stalwarts, has-beens and never-weres.

If the 101 names on the list proved anything, it is that nobody of importance wants to touch Beaulieu with a ten foot pole. He is toxic.

Nobody in the PQ signed his manifesto, nobody in the Bloc Quebecois. Not even Thomas Mulcair, who hardly ever misses an opportunity to curry favour with nationalists.
Beaulieu has been writing letters since September soliciting signatures for his list and has little to show for it. His ragamuffin crew of signatories says more about his irrelevance than anything else.

His invitation to the general public to sign his petition seems to have fallen on deaf ears, with less than 2,500 signatures so far,  in a province of eight million.
I do recall that an online petition calling on Kijiji to ban the advertisement of animals for sale as pets, in Quebec, garnered over fifty thousand signatures in a few short days.

In short, Quebec does get bashed in the English media, deservedly so.

For Beaulieu and his brownshirts (Yes! another Nazi reference) his campaign to vilify the English media has largely fallen on deaf ears.
Most Quebecers don't really give a rat's ass what is being said about them in English Canada and don't give Mario Beaulieu the time of day.
Beaulieu is a self-defeating nincompoop, launching his campaign just two weeks before Christmas.

Really.....who can get worked up over language at this time of year?