tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post1068677530262511805..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: Why Sovereigntists Should Consider PartitionEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-41971978139168427312013-01-24T04:22:00.053-05:002013-01-24T04:22:00.053-05:00brilliant.brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-55786680137204890182013-01-06T15:59:15.155-05:002013-01-06T15:59:15.155-05:00Article 43 of the 1982 constitution (yes, the one ...Article 43 of the 1982 constitution (yes, the one shoved down our throats by Mr T. himself) prevents partition.<br /><br />End of story.Jean Naimardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-79754935856651957902012-10-26T09:49:02.115-04:002012-10-26T09:49:02.115-04:00Troy, Jarry Street has already made the point for ...Troy, Jarry Street has already made the point for me, but I'll re-iterate it: headquarters can move easily - see the Bank of Montreal, now based in Toronto!The Quebec Partitionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-39741747133686456142012-10-26T09:45:49.942-04:002012-10-26T09:45:49.942-04:00Prior to the elections, all the parties promised t...<i>Prior to the elections, all the parties promised to tackle the "problem" of English in Montreal. Even in the English versions, they literally used the term "problem of English" in Montreal.</i><br /><br />That's as may be, but that only speaks of the leaders of political parties all pandering to the noisiest section of the public, not necessarily the majority. The students were quite noisy last summer, but their views were far from majoritarian.The Quebec Partitionnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-23291656503499550962012-10-25T14:53:58.964-04:002012-10-25T14:53:58.964-04:00From the Dutrizac interview :
15 : 45
B. Dutrizac...From the Dutrizac interview :<br /><br />15 : 45<br />B. Dutrizac : Did they delay the intervention?<br />M. Bergeron : No no no...but they avoided to speak in English!<br /><br />All I'm saying is that people are grossly exaggerating when they say that the paramedic endangered the young girl's life and that she luckily survived. The father didn't even said that himself.<br /><br />If the CETAM had no bilingual paramedics available, what should the have done? Send no one?<br /><br />Anyway if you think the paramedic in question should be fired. <a href="http://www.causes.com/actions/1695049" rel="nofollow">You can sign the petition here</a> Let's see if the people from this region will get better services if the CETAM fires all their unilingual paramedics. Guillaume Légarénoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-11551167565269735982012-10-25T14:15:42.669-04:002012-10-25T14:15:42.669-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-50501844588255005642012-10-25T10:29:41.741-04:002012-10-25T10:29:41.741-04:00I will tell you right away. The two - Holocaust de...I will tell you right away. The two - Holocaust deniers and separatists - have in common one thing: they are so wrapped-up in their parallel world that their reality is a way to deny the Reality by selective, short-term memory.<br />Holocaust deniers deny the KZ (=Konzentrationslager), but fail to acknowledge the results of the denied facts: millions of people tortured, killed, enslaved, raped, stripped of their dignity. Their reality stops with the denial: "As I deny, it does not exist".<br />Separatists deny their nasty, racist, xenophobic behaviours, but fail to acknowledge the results of the denied facts: people insulted because of speaking English or ignored because of their English (see what happened in Dorion with the little girl) and so on. Their reality stops with the denial: "As I deny mistreating Anglos and Allos, my behaviour is right, ergo I have to carry on like that".<br />In Germany, the KZ-chapter is still alive and impossible to forget (or forgive). I think we have atoned enough for our "dark" past. We remember, but we are fed up with being reminded.WAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-14994160312604632582012-10-25T10:05:52.089-04:002012-10-25T10:05:52.089-04:00WA Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:16:00 AM EDT W...WA Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:16:00 AM EDT What the hell does Separatists are just like the Holocaust deniers: they deny the evidence, the reality, History and its results<br />have to do with this subject. Why do the numbers for Auschwitz-Birkenau keep changing. http://furtherglory.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/why-do-the-numbers-for-auschwitz-birkenau-keep-changing/.<br />You brought Holocaust deniers into this conversation not I. maybe the White French Canadians Roman Catholics want there own country like the Zionist in Israeli. Not that I agree with either one but thah’s me. An after thought my grandmother died during the 39-45 atrocities. White African Canadiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-43901535278866261272012-10-25T07:46:11.024-04:002012-10-25T07:46:11.024-04:00Beautiful post from Le Devoir, especially when he ...Beautiful post from Le Devoir, especially when he encourages to become intolerant and nasty. Once again: it's always the others who have to make the effort. No French with that attitude, Mr. Marc Chenier. Never ever ever.<br /><br />Marc Chenier - Abonné<br />25 octobre 2012 06 h 48<br />Au Québec, nous ne voulons plus favoriser l'érosion de notre culture francophone et nous devons maintenant utiliser la force réglementaire améliorée. Un résident du Québec qui est ici depuis plus de 2 ans et les résidents de toujours doivent parler et écrire francais en public, à defaut de quoi, nous devons leur faire sentir qu'ils sont insultants et non-bienvenue. Libre à eux parler la langue de leur choix dans leur maison certes mais en public, nous devons imposer notre respect constatant les résultats. Nous devons devenir intolérant au manque de respect. Même chose contre ceux et celles qui ne font pas d'effort pour rectifier leur comportement à impacts négatifs sur notre environnement. Même chose contre l'argent sale et la corruption. Même chose contre les gaz de schiste et le nucléaire. Je suis pret à me serrer la ceinture suite à ces durcissements de positions qui sont devenus essentiels.WAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-83361438866416834612012-10-25T04:56:16.258-04:002012-10-25T04:56:16.258-04:00This is the link to the actual Fraser Institute re...This is the link to the actual Fraser Institute report that is referred to in the article above:<br /><br />http://www.fraserinstitute.org/uploadedFiles/fraser-ca/Content/research-news/research/publications/official-language-policies-of-canadian-provinces.pdf<br /><br />I presume Yannick is referring to the figure for observable spending that is shown in Table 7.5 and which is justified on page 70. <br /><br />Do either of you care to explain specifically why it is you think those findings are not trustworthy?<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-77856047015533618082012-10-25T04:15:12.273-04:002012-10-25T04:15:12.273-04:00OMG! Your reaction is absolutely shocking. You are...OMG! Your reaction is absolutely shocking. You are actually quoting the ultra-anglophobe, Benoît Dutrizac, who is trying to characterize this situation as some sort of form of “Quebecophobia” in order to justify the situation simply because luckily the little girl happened to survive! You are making the situation even worse!!! <br /><br />You are actually trying to defend the incompetence of public servants in the Montérégie, an area adjacent to the Ontario border, even though Vaudreuil is a largely English-speaking area. Are you actually trying to pretend that the Montérégie is 100% francophone? What if the father had happened to be unavailable during the crisis and the mother had to make the call? This area has NEVER been unilingual French ever (in all of history!) and it is shocking that you should wish or try to endanger peoples' lives on account of such a blatant falsehood.<br /><br />Your TVA link actually demonstrates how perfectly bilingual the father is... but he is not the one serving the paramedics; it is the other way around! The CETAM’s justification that it was trying to accelerate the process is grotesque. It’s perfectly clear that the paramedic was trying to make a political cause by endangering the life of a child by not even trying or making the least effort to speak English.<br /><br />Everyone, watch this video! It makes it even more shocking than I ever imagined:<br /><br /><a href="http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2012/10/20121024-155834.html" rel="nofollow">Un ambulancier refuse de s'exprimer en anglais</a><br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-34318280892394082372012-10-25T03:38:05.914-04:002012-10-25T03:38:05.914-04:00It's amazing, isn't it? It's unfortuna...It's amazing, isn't it? It's unfortunate that the whole' Anarcho-panda' side of things got all the spotlight during the spring, since at least some of the students were protesting such rampant 'fundraising' on the part of university administrations in Quebec - in both Anglo and Franco universities. It's not just stuffing business schools with exchange students who can't speak English, either. Whopping huge grants are spent on meetings to decide when to hold the next meeting, so I'm informed. Perhaps a Charbonneau-esque commission on post-secondary corruption is what's called for, rather than PQ-chaired summits on indexation.<br /><br />As for the Fraser Institute, I agree with you. I wouldn't put too much trust in the findings of a think tank whose aims are as ideologically riddled with prejudice as any J-F Lisée exposé of creeping Anglo takeover, although in their case, it's Quebec-baiting paranoia worthy of Father of Confederation George "French-Canadianism is entirely extinguished" Brown.Calgarian in Montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-43286320223563976262012-10-25T03:29:17.206-04:002012-10-25T03:29:17.206-04:00Do hou like when I say stuff like "Da Fawdar ...Do hou like when I say stuff like "Da Fawdar of the bradar was a member of da poleceece. And mah h'brows louk like t'who h'angry caterpillars fighting." I ham sorry, but CTV decided to poot me hown as part of a separatist plot to h'annoy da h'english viewhers.Stephane Girouxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-69456998771722626822012-10-25T03:09:34.310-04:002012-10-25T03:09:34.310-04:00Visionary,
Roughly fifty percent of today's p...Visionary, <br />Roughly fifty percent of today's post was controlled by S.R. Arguing with S.R. / Arguing about S.R.<br />or arguing about something he said. You can tell the smart people by who does or does not answer him.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-19535855673917210852012-10-25T02:14:41.073-04:002012-10-25T02:14:41.073-04:00Oh boy, do I ever totally agree with you about tha...Oh boy, do I ever totally agree with you about that! <br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/McGuinty+Harper+speeding+decline+parliamett/7418934/story.html" rel="nofollow">McGuinty and Harper speeding the decline of parliament</a></strong><br /><br />Suppose, for the sake of argument, Canada were a democracy. Imagine, as a thought experiment, that anyone gave a damn. What would be the warning signs that we were losing it? At what point would we decide we had crossed the line?<br /><br />Here’s a thought. Suppose a provincial premier, threatened with a contempt vote for withholding documents from the legislature, were to respond by shutting the place down — indefinitely. And suppose, that same week, the federal government were to pack a whole pile of wholly unrelated legislation into a single bill and demand Parliament pass the lot. Now suppose I told you these were not isolated or unusual events, but increasingly the norm.<br /><br />That is perhaps what is most disturbing about the past week: how routine it has all become, how little outrage it arouses. When Dalton McGuinty, listing along at 20 per cent in the polls and besieged by scandal, resigned as premier of Ontario, the news that he had also prorogued the legislature — thereby extinguishing a committee’s inquiry into his election-eve cancellation of two gas-fired electricity plants in swing ridings, at a cost to the taxpayer in the hundreds of millions — was buried below the fold in many accounts.<br /><br />But then, McGuinty was only following what is rapidly becoming the template for governments in trouble. When Stephen Harper prorogued rather than face a confidence vote in 2008, it was shocking enough, even in light of the extraordinary circumstances of that vote. When, under fire over the treatment of Afghan detainees, he prorogued again the following year, it seemed he might have tripped the wire of public consciousness: The Conservatives plunged 10 points in the polls. But a little more than a year later he was re-elected with a majority. […]<br /><br /><br />We should avoid exaggeration. But we should also be clear-eyed about how far things have deteriorated. What, after all, do we expect Parliaments to do? We expect them to examine and debate legislation. But debates are largely a formality — and the minute they threaten to become consequential, governments invoke closure (or its politer cousin, time allocation).<br /><br />We expect them to hold governments to account for their actions. But what does this mean if governments can prorogue or dissolve the legislature whenever they come under fire?<br /><br />We expect them to control the supply of public funds and closely monitor how they are spent. But Parliament has long since loosened its grip on the public purse. Governments at all levels routinely overspend the amounts budgeted to them: by $82 billion in the last decade, according to the C. D. Howe Institute. Members on the government side, in particular, have come to see themselves as dispensers of public funds, rather than watchdogs over them.<br /><br />Even that most basic of legislative functions, that of voting on legislation, is increasingly a charade. Such is the weight of party discipline that votes are almost always strictly party-line, making the results as predictable as the debates. And whatever use the process might serve is ground into dust under the omnibus juggernaut. Not only is it difficult to properly scrutinize so many disparate pieces of legislation in such a short time, but it makes it impossible to know what Parliament’s intent was. Did it really mean to give its assent to each and every item in the bill? Or was it, effectively, given no choice: pass the whole thing, or none of it, up or down?<br /><br />What we are left with, in short, is a largely ceremonial body: the form of parliamentary government, but not the substance. The problem grows worse with each passing year, and with each passing year grows more difficult to reverse. By their actions this week, McGuinty and Harper have pushed us that much closer to the point of no return.<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-35347454238964590272012-10-25T01:37:49.160-04:002012-10-25T01:37:49.160-04:00Oh, come on! As an Ashkenazi Jew, you must surely ...Oh, come on! As an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews" rel="nofollow">Ashkenazi Jew</a>, you must surely be familiar with the geography of Eastern Europe. I’m a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile" rel="nofollow">Gentile</a> and know that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad" rel="nofollow">Kaliningrad</a> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclave" rel="nofollow">exclave</a> of Russia, located between Poland and Lithuania.<br /><br />There’s this new thing called Google that helps to you learn stuff…<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-29524740478586518472012-10-25T01:27:07.275-04:002012-10-25T01:27:07.275-04:00It's on TVA
Quote from the video on TVA's...<a href="http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/regional/montreal/archives/2012/10/20121024-155834.html" rel="nofollow">It's on TVA</a><br /><br />Quote from the video on TVA's website : "In these circumstances and knowing that the family would understand us, we thought that speaking French was the best thing to do."<br /><br />It's unfortunate that the paramedic seemed to be a little arrogant, however lots of version of the story are saying that the paramedic used French to allow the process to go faster, not slower. People are acting in bad faith when they say that the paramedic endangered the life of the young girl and that he was trying to make a political stance.<br /><br />Mark Bergeron also gave an interview to the 98.5, a francophone radio station <a href="http://www.985fm.ca/audioplayer.php?mp3=150879" rel="nofollow">You can hear it here! (It starts at 10:45) </a><br /><br />While she was still convulsing, Bergeron kept asking for services in English but it's not like he had no clue what the paramedic was saying. In a perfect world all paramedics would be bilingual. However, what's even more important than languages is health. The life of this young girl was saved and we should all be thankful for that. I don't see how a situation where a paramedic spoke in French to a guy with a very good level of French can be considered a life-threatening situation.<br />Guillaume Légarénoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-56795714353203619612012-10-25T00:09:50.337-04:002012-10-25T00:09:50.337-04:00The reason the Queen is involved in Canada is beca...The reason the Queen is involved in Canada is because she heads the British Empire and we are a member of that. The British Parliament has nothing to say about Canada. The Empire now known as the British Commonwealth is an association of countries which gives security in having allies. India was thankful for the empire during WWII. Along with Australia they were kept safe from invasion. Oddly enough the Queen operates the office of the widespread Commonwealth on her own with only 7 employees.<br />She works 40 hour weeks like everyone else and does not take a salary. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-13169055846398559672012-10-24T23:49:20.572-04:002012-10-24T23:49:20.572-04:00Partition: I cannot answer your question for I hav...Partition: I cannot answer your question for I have never been to Alaska and I don't know where Kaliningrad is, if it exists at all.Mr. Sauganoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-77210042049039095122012-10-24T23:32:05.171-04:002012-10-24T23:32:05.171-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-31255708123708357582012-10-24T23:30:01.174-04:002012-10-24T23:30:01.174-04:00Some of the students at Concordia are actually lea...Some of the students at Concordia are actually learning English as they go, although they aren't Francophones, or even Canadians - although they've recently be shown to be cash cows for crooked businessmen and indirectly the university. Ah, corruption! Is there any part of Montreal life you haven't tainted?<br /><br /><a href="http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/3227" rel="nofollow">Chinese Student? Don't Speak English? No Problem! Call Peter Low!</a>Calgarian in Montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-26116410990023005362012-10-24T23:27:30.992-04:002012-10-24T23:27:30.992-04:00EDM: This is truly despicable of you. Are you actu...EDM: This is truly despicable of you. Are you actually this delusional? The National Post comments are not at all in favour of the paramedic (never mind “overwhelmingly”).<br /> <br /><strong>"What if I went to Japan and demanded to be served in French?"</strong><br /><br />Are you being serious? You can’t possibly be serious. What if I went to Botswana and demanded to be served in Norwegian? What if I went to Chile and demanded to be served in Burmese??<br /><br />“When in Rome…”??? They’re not being asked to speak Russian or Swahili, but a local language that has been spoken here for over 250 years. Emergency responders need to speak the language of the community, which is often majority-English or else significantly-minority English here in Quebec. If they don’t want to serve the public appropriately, they should seek employment opportunities elsewhere rather than endanger people’s lives.<br /><br />Despite your insinuations, the father IS fluent in French… but when your 2-year-old daughter is having convulsions on the floor, the appropriate medical terminology may not always be readily apparent. <br /><br />You too seem to be suffering from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome" rel="nofollow">Stockholm Syndrome</a>.<br />The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03505395670925907216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-59796540765067852562012-10-24T23:21:14.625-04:002012-10-24T23:21:14.625-04:00I agree. Cutie03's idea of drawing the boundar...I agree. Cutie03's idea of drawing the boundaries of the new province based on the electoral districts seems to be the best way of avoiding a situation where federalist communities would be left behind.EDMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-12491802720950270662012-10-24T23:15:03.334-04:002012-10-24T23:15:03.334-04:00Then again, Yannick, just because they're Engl...Then again, Yannick, just because they're English doesn't necessarily mean that only Anglophones attend them. You hear an awful lot of French spoken around Concordia, and one of Option Nationale's candidates in the last election was a McGill graduate. To the best of my knowledge, both of these universities (not sure about Sherbrooke) have regulations guaranteeing that assignments and exams may be submitted in French, although a) the professor must be advised that this is the student's preference at the beginning of the semester b) the work might be graded by another faculty member should the professor not read/write French sufficiently well. In other words, that 40 % is not exclusively covering the costs of Anglophone students. On the other side of the equation, I'd be curious to know how many Anglophone students choose to attend Francophone universities. I imagine the number is considerably lower - though I know of one Anglophone from BC who's planning on studying Urban Design at U de M, and is improving his French in order to do so. Calgarian in Montrealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-64732137697039225282012-10-24T23:10:36.127-04:002012-10-24T23:10:36.127-04:00The paramedics' version (in French)<a href="http://www.985fm.ca/audioplayer.php?mp3=150839" rel="nofollow">The paramedics' version (in French)</a> Guillaume Légarénoreply@blogger.com