tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post1476208543308047350..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: Statistics Can Say Anything- It's a Matter of PerspectiveEditorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-23044301480708754552010-04-06T22:51:11.783-04:002010-04-06T22:51:11.783-04:00Reply to Anon at 3:40 PM;
True enough, but only i...Reply to Anon at 3:40 PM;<br /><br />True enough, but only in Quebec. The English language is fine elsewhere in Canada and the Anglos who left Quebec just settled elsewhere. They weren't really 'lost' to the community as a national whole, from a demographic standpoint. In contrast the Franco communities outside Quebec are melting away. One more reason why I favor Swiss-style language region laws. Canada is becoming like that de-facto anyways. I say make it de-jure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-6455169067471477182010-04-06T15:40:02.694-04:002010-04-06T15:40:02.694-04:00Here is ANOTHER statistic that cannot be fudged: t...Here is ANOTHER statistic that cannot be fudged: the Anglophone population of Quebec has been decimated during the past forty years because of draconian French language laws adopted by the Quebec government.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-22038813827666831532010-03-31T01:29:53.092-04:002010-03-31T01:29:53.092-04:00There is ONE statistic that cannot be fudged. The ...There is ONE statistic that cannot be fudged. The Francophone share of Canada's population has been in steady decline since at least 1950.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-87277967717057913102010-03-31T00:55:07.808-04:002010-03-31T00:55:07.808-04:00"Les athlètes québécois se sont surpassés aux..."Les athlètes québécois se sont surpassés aux Jeux de Vancouver (Quebeckers outshone the rest of Canada at the Olympics)."<br /><br />You're being a bit over dramatic on the translation, it should read, "Quebeckers surpass expectations at Olympics" or " Quebec athletes self excel at the Olympics" Nothing in that title mentions the rest of the Canadian athletes.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-84202413516125051102010-03-30T14:12:49.593-04:002010-03-30T14:12:49.593-04:00Hey, I was the one pointed out about Jenn Heil and...Hey, I was the one pointed out about Jenn Heil and Clara Hughes at vigile.net. You should have credited me! :-D Just kidding.<br /><br />I also pointed out at another thread at vigile.net here:<br /><br />http://www.vigile.net/Mon-bilan-des-JO-de-Vancouver<br /><br />I pointed out the fallacy of the writer's opinion that the percentage of Francophones Canadian winning the medal is 50%. After I wrote that it is about 70 - 30, another poster just changed the criteria. Now medals won by a team with Francophones in it is considered as "Francophone's medal". No matter what the fact is, those fools always have a way to spin it to fit their premise.<br /><br />On another note, what is "non-Quebec Quebeckers"? Are you following Louis Prefontaine's stupid premise that non-francophone people who live (often times also were born and raised) in Quebec are not Québécois?Ryannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-41870697463063407892010-03-30T09:00:15.683-04:002010-03-30T09:00:15.683-04:00@Tym: “I took them from Adski, the so-called moder...@Tym: “I took them from Adski, the so-called moderate who dares to compare the PQ to LePen Front National in France and the BNP in England.”<br /><br />Well, Tym, you are making that connection yourself. I said that every country has its crackpots, and I named a few without drawing a direct parallel between any of them. But you did, which means there is something to it.<br /><br />The BQ and PQ, which you are sort of defending right now, take a good care of their image and deny any accusations of racism, however difficult that task may be for parties deeply rooted in ethnic nationalism, as the PQ and BQ certainly are. So despite their best efforts, the truth comes out in slip ups and blunders. As in the “ethnic cities” comments by one of pequiste ideologues currently working in Montreal’s city hall.<br /><br />The fact is that as hard as I try to give the PQ and BQ the benefit of the doubt, sometimes they leave me no choice. Case in point – La Marche Des Patriotes where chants like “Le Quebec aux Quebecois” are a recurring theme and conjure up the images of the BNP marches in the 1980’s. What does it have to do with the PQ/BQ, you ask? Well, none other than Gilles Duceppe, the fearless leader himself, was there to give a speech and whip up some passions amongst the marchers. <br /><br />http://adski77.blogspot.com/2009/11/every-society-has-its-scoundrels.html<br /><br />So the connection is rather direct, wouldn’t you say?<br /><br />Editor: “on the nationalist vigel.net”<br /><br />The site’s address is actually: http://www.vigile.net/<br /><br /><br />Editor: “when Gilles Duceppe speaks I'm apt to check every fact that he claims and every error of omission that he makes.”<br /><br />When I’m walking down the street on a nice sunny day, and a Quebec nationalist comes to me and says “what a nice sunny day”, I instinctively look up to the sky to check if it is really a nice sunny day. Just to make sure.<br /><br />Editor: “the YES side used a campaign poster to intimate that the Loony”<br /><br />They also wanted to keep the Canadian citizenship in 1995. It’s hard to say whether these people are genuinely confused and don’t know what they want, or whether they are master manipulators. I’m leaning towards the latter. People like Duceppe, Parizeau, Marois, don’t want anything else but power and prestige. And it is more prestigious to be president of a country, than a provincial premier. But unfortunately for them, the country they are trying to dismantle for their personal ambitions is no Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, but in fact one of the most prosperous countries in the world. So they have to use manipulation and lies to reach their goals. They have no choice. What is sad is that a third of this province actually falls for it.adskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196014962059056067noreply@blogger.com