tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post5102398172357105323..comments2024-02-17T03:22:53.951-05:00Comments on No Dogs or Anglophones: Is Justin Trudeau the Real McCoy?Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05699783315783642466noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-22909888188990746032013-05-03T12:57:59.171-04:002013-05-03T12:57:59.171-04:00Yea! Another reasonable francophone that also wis...Yea! Another reasonable francophone that also wishes the IF would disappear from our sight never to return. The fact that the city provides free accommodation to this group has to be challenged by Gatineau people. This building could be put to much better use such as offering free french and/or english courses to those that are interested in improving their skills in the other Canadian official language. Are you listening Gatineau City Councillors? This is a very important matter and I resent paying taxes to support this militant anti-English language group of malcontents. They are adversely affecting everything in our community from our "good neighbour" policy to our real estate values. Time to get rid of this bunch to somewhere that would appreciate these kinds of intimidation like Saguenay or elsewhere up the line in quebec. Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-74467271834705014022013-05-03T10:00:33.838-04:002013-05-03T10:00:33.838-04:00Why don't you tell me where most of the Schizo...Why don't you tell me where most of the Schizos are from? Also I know I don't stand with a WASP supremacist. You can stand with him and where the white robes and cone masks together.Jarry Streetnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-83154108875806786372013-05-03T08:18:01.208-04:002013-05-03T08:18:01.208-04:00Mr. Potatohead adds his 2 cents. We all know what ...Mr. Potatohead adds his 2 cents. We all know what your opinion is worth. Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-77369391472215196342013-05-03T08:00:00.696-04:002013-05-03T08:00:00.696-04:00@troy
"what is so fundamentally wrong by bei...@troy<br /><br />"what is so fundamentally wrong by being an American?"<br /><br />there's nothing wrong with "being an american". but there is also nothing wrong in not wanting to become one. the point here troy is about a culture vanishing and not about the moral value of "being an american". you were slightly off.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-30335479287398561132013-05-03T07:50:33.172-04:002013-05-03T07:50:33.172-04:00@the rationalist
"Certainly a lot better loo...@the rationalist<br /><br />"Certainly a lot better looking."<br /><br />why do you bring this up?studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-68584023788261615412013-05-03T01:18:41.138-04:002013-05-03T01:18:41.138-04:00Only someone who has no understanding of either Ca...Only someone who has no understanding of either Canada or the United States could possibly say something so patently foolish.<br /><br />When you are trapped in the Quebec bubble, you are unable to see anything beyond language.The Conquesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07377113471835829077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-33178502725211402362013-05-03T00:20:53.149-04:002013-05-03T00:20:53.149-04:00It's a very good question Troy. In my opinion ...It's a very good question Troy. In my opinion there is nothing fundamentally wrong by being an American. On the contrary. What is fundamentally wrong it's the fact that English-Canadians don't accept they are Americans. They have the same language and the same culture!! The American and the English-Canadian watching Hawai 5-0 are axactly the same!! Nothing differianciate one from another.Y.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15963004725359187733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-83109770466337216862013-05-03T00:18:43.472-04:002013-05-03T00:18:43.472-04:00Imperatif Bilingue, not!
https://www.bulletinaylme...<strong>Imperatif Bilingue, not!</strong><br />https://www.bulletinaylmer.com/en/imperatif-bilingue-not/2013/05/02/<br />By BULLETIN | Published: MAY 2, 2013<br /><br />I totally agree with the writers of two letters in the last Bulletin, Madelaine Prévost and David Desjardins, about Impératif Français. Mr. Perreault’s French-only club serves no purpose but to divide the population and discriminate against Anglophones. His linguistic witch hunt has been fired up by the PQ’s Bill 14.<br /><br />Abolish English in Quebec hospitals? So if an Anglophone visitor is admitted to the Gatineau Hospital, it will be illegal for the nurses and doctors to provide help in his/her own language, even if they are fluently biligual? That’s obscene!<br /><br />Another example is at the Aylmer Marina. The safety regulations for the beach are only in French. How can something as important as this, in a sector with a large Anglophone population, be justified? Who accepts responsibility if someone has an accident because they were unable to read the Code? Mr Perreault? Ms. Marois? Nope! The blame will be on the victim for not being able to read French.<br /><br />My son and I were at Outaouais en fête last year, as we do every year, and after winning one of the games, my son chose a Quebec cowboy hat and flag because he’s proud of his province. The man running the game asked, “Are you a real Quebecois?” to my then-5 year old son. I replied that, yes, my son and I are true Quebecois! Since when did being a Quebecois means being Francophone?<br /><br />My family, as well as many others here, are Anglos and have been here for 50-plus years. We belong here, and are proud to call Quebec our home. We fully respect that Quebec is a French province and choose to live in harmony here.<br /><br />I’m nervous about this year’s Outaouais en fête. Thanks to Bill 14, I’m sure Mr Perreault’s speech will be a ‘Rallying the Troops’, causing trouble with some festival-goers after a few<br />visits to the beer tents.<br /><br />In the 21st century, there is no place for the intolerance that Impératif français and Mme Marois are trying to stir up. I believe there are more pressing issues. Why not rename themselves Impératif bilingue and promote unity and harmony in our great province, instead of generating animosity?<br /><br />Dave Beauchamp<br />AylmerJosephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-91158916587736996862013-05-02T23:53:10.894-04:002013-05-02T23:53:10.894-04:00Would you buy a used car from this woman?
http://...Would you buy a used car from this woman?<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ1k20Zr0Y4<br /><br />There are quadruple the dislikes already!<br />R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-56745151231341109822013-05-02T23:14:36.605-04:002013-05-02T23:14:36.605-04:00Bananarama? Sorry, I do not follow.Bananarama? Sorry, I do not follow.Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960771543572680283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-34091355948795851592013-05-02T23:13:06.558-04:002013-05-02T23:13:06.558-04:00Y.L,
You raised the point of being Americanized. ...Y.L,<br /><br />You raised the point of being Americanized. I believe S.R raised that point too some time ago and yet I remember a number of those who claimed to be sovereignists also raised this point.<br /><br />My question then, what is so fundamentally wrong by being an American?Troyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960771543572680283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-45693712716977612032013-05-02T23:04:05.286-04:002013-05-02T23:04:05.286-04:00Well, at least you know where he stands.
Unlike J...Well, at least you know where he stands.<br /><br />Unlike Jarry..or Yannie...where do you stand.<br /><br />On the fence? <br /><br />I think most of the Schizos are from where? <br /><br />Metis..you think all those French guys kept things in their pants?<br /><br />Doubt it.<br /><br />Westernernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-49864892217772677112013-05-02T22:49:54.004-04:002013-05-02T22:49:54.004-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-85578128634833028032013-05-02T22:39:40.088-04:002013-05-02T22:39:40.088-04:00From The Rationalist:
"only detail here is t...From The Rationalist:<br /><br />"only detail here is the only source available for this "fact" is justin trudeau himself. err... can you spot the weakness in the point you're trying to make, mate?"<br /><br />Justin Trudeau and the folks who run the LSAT. If he were lying it would come out. And it would bury him. The stakes are too high for him to have lied. So like it or not he's smarter than you or me. And probably a lot smarter that Stephen or Tom. Certainly a lot better looking.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-12352117153656322612013-05-02T22:32:12.104-04:002013-05-02T22:32:12.104-04:00@diogenes
"I guess my IQ must be higher that...@diogenes<br /><br />"I guess my IQ must be higher that Ed's because I think you're blowing smoke."<br /><br />you? hum... i'd say around 100.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-71545730837032972672013-05-02T21:31:25.806-04:002013-05-02T21:31:25.806-04:00FROM: Spoiled votes saga nears end
The long-runn...FROM: <a href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=c4a98eea-9586-486d-bbf2-8f0ef02dd5af" rel="nofollow"><strong> Spoiled votes saga nears end</strong> </a><br /><em>The long-running saga of the spoiled ballots from the last Quebec referendum looks destined to end in anticlimax.</em><br />BY HUBERT BAUCH, THE GAZETTE (MONTREAL), APRIL 21, 2008<br /><br />The long-running saga of the spoiled ballots from the last Quebec referendum looks destined to end in anticlimax. <strong> It now seems likely that all will never be told about the extent to which the separatist side tried to rig the vote</strong>, given the impending destruction by powers that be of vital evidence in the affair. A Superior Court hearing is scheduled for the last day of this month to entertain a request by Quebec's elections chief for leave to finally put the 4.8 million ballots from the 1995 sovereignty referendum to the shredder. And presumably to the recycling bin after that.<br /><br />At the heart of the case are the 86,501 ballots from that vote that were deemed spoiled because of improper marking, and thus not counted toward the final tally of 50.6 per cent for the federalist No side and 49.4 for the sovereignist Yes. Their number was substantially greater than the 54,288-vote federalist margin of victory, but at 1.82 per cent of the overall vote not out of line with the spoilage rate in recent elections and the previous sovereignty referendum in 1980.<br /><br /><strong> What raised a stink about the counting, starting on referendum night, was the aberrant rejection rate in a few ridings, which just happened to be be staunch federalist enclaves </strong> where the No was expected to rack up Soviet style majorities. In the Chomedey riding in Laval, almost 12 per cent of the cast ballots were rejected in the counting, more than six times the 1.82-per-cent average; in the Montreal Island ridings of Marguerite-Bourgeois and Laurier-Dorion, the rejection rate was 5.5 per cent and 3.6 per cent, respectively.<br /><br />Doubts surfaced immediately that voters in these ridings suffered such disproportionately poor penmanship in the marking of ballots, and suspicions have flourished since that there was a plot hatched at the height of the Yes organization, controlled by the Parti Québécois, to prevent No votes from registering by, among other things, declaring them invalid because of improper marking. […]<br />R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-80421995356918481092013-05-02T21:29:46.587-04:002013-05-02T21:29:46.587-04:00Regarding the referendum on Quebec sovereignty in ...Regarding the referendum on Quebec sovereignty in 1995: “Controversy arose over whether the scrutineers of the Chomedey, Marguerite-Bourgeois and Laurier-Dorion ridings had rejected numerous ballots without valid reasons, mostly by being overly strict on what marks voters could use to indicate their choices (for instance, rejecting ballots with check-marks or “X”s that were crooked, too large, made with a pen instead of a pencil, etc.). In these ridings the “No” vote was dominant, and the proportion of rejected ballots was 12%, 5.5% and 3.6%. In the riding of Chomedey, an average of 1 of every 9 ballots were rejected. <strong>Thomas Mulcair, member of the Quebec National Assembly for Chomedey, told reporters after the vote that there was “an orchestrated attempt to steal the vote” in his riding.” </strong> (<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/what-voting-can-look-like.html" rel="nofollow">link</a>)R.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16447818623561947563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-1338958401182236122013-05-02T21:07:35.341-04:002013-05-02T21:07:35.341-04:00Ed, I hear what you're saying and it's muc...Ed, I hear what you're saying and it's much the same as Cutie. If reading what a poster writes makes you unhappy, skip over it. You know by the bold faced type at the top of each comment who the author is, so when you see one by Un Gars, leave it unread and drive on to the next. I almost never read S.R.'s post because he writes in french and every time in the past I've gone to the bother of working out the translation, it hasn't been worth the effort. So now I see his name and skip to the next. Do I feel I missing something? No because I know the odds are it's crap. <br />The problem is <i>not</i> what Un Gars writes. The problem is that you let it bother you AND you persist in reading it. Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-22024476168135301062013-05-02T20:50:55.870-04:002013-05-02T20:50:55.870-04:00Dudent said: "i don't believe you bench 1...Dudent said: "i don't believe you bench 147 ed. according to my evaluation your iq is somewhere between 100 and 110."<br /><br />Pretty bold statement for someone who hasn't mastered the Shift key yet.You're "evaluation"? Quiet everyone, Dr. Sigmund Dudent has pronounced his "evaluation." I guess my IQ must be higher that Ed's because I think you're blowing smoke. I call bullshit on you having any sort background outside of your imagination that would give you the licence to "evaluate" anyone's IQ to a 10-point range. Show us your credentials. Show us your proof.<br />I generally try to cut you some slack because of your lack of maturity but every once in a while you hook up a fire hose to your alleged brain and hose us all down with whatever drivel happens to be sloshing around in there at the time. This is one of them. Please, grow up soon.<br /><br />Diogenesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-85013342886043320162013-05-02T19:11:05.173-04:002013-05-02T19:11:05.173-04:00@the rationalist
"I don't think the Edit...@the rationalist<br /><br />"I don't think the Editor was aware of Justin's LSAT score. A 98 percentile LSAT score gets you into a very exclusive club - Mensa."<br /><br />right. only detail here is the only source available for this "fact" is justin trudeau himself. err... can you spot the weakness in the point you're trying to make, mate?<br /><br />"I am much more interested in what Justin is thinking and what Justin has to say than the meandering onanism of Josée Legault's..."<br /><br />of course. we all are. but josée legault's point is precisely that the man has not said anything apart from a contradiction here and there. that is of course if, like me and her, you don't consider all the canada is my dream and we should all get along mantra that he served during the "debates" between the lpc contenders. on sensitive stuff like quebec's distinctiveness he's repeating his dad's shit word for word. and we can see where this has lead. on constitution he's just repeating people don't want to hear about it, even though it's false and even if it wasn't, a politician who doesn't care about the constitution he hopes to be sworn in by is a total absurdity.<br /><br />"...you don't think Justin can do likewise?"<br /><br />though call at this point. i hope not. he's not worthy.<br /><br />"j'tanné"<br /><br />if you're tanné try something new. liberals with junior might not be the one for you.<br /><br />studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-68115060356478443722013-05-02T19:02:54.247-04:002013-05-02T19:02:54.247-04:00You're just mad because we conquered you.You're just mad because we conquered you.The Conquesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07377113471835829077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-73241612941577023292013-05-02T18:05:04.576-04:002013-05-02T18:05:04.576-04:00i don't believe you bench 147 ed. according to...i don't believe you bench 147 ed. according to my evaluation your iq is somewhere between 100 and 110. 147 types don't believe everything they read on the internet. plus they wait until a dude comes up with a program before giving him their vote.studentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-3270349729329168252013-05-02T14:16:12.523-04:002013-05-02T14:16:12.523-04:00By the way - who are "all" these people ...By the way - who are "all" these people I call separatists? Only un gars (and he is, just for different reasons, does not change the fact that he is a separatist) and all along I've said at heart you are - you just can't reconcile that in your own mind. If you were positively a federalist, you would not make excuses, whatever they may be, to break up Canada. That is black and white - there are no grey areas here. The federalist areas of quebec will remain federalist and the areas that are determined to go are the ones that we must let go, to end this. If you don't see this, then you recognize their right to push out all the federalist votes they can, before THEY call the next referendum. That is why we have a right - and the responsibility - to decide when the referendum(s) are held. We must not delay this for much longer or they will have cleansed quebec of our votes which they are intentionally doing every day and every minute of every day. God - does that make it clear yet?Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-86952191266191181222013-05-02T14:08:49.962-04:002013-05-02T14:08:49.962-04:00I agree with your assessment, above, Mr. Sauga.
B...I agree with your assessment, above, Mr. Sauga.<br /><br />By the way, could you explain "Trudeauopolous" I am intrigued by this moniker!Tony Kondakshttp://www.whycanadamustend.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963035472241877292.post-62665054426395022452013-05-02T14:07:40.571-04:002013-05-02T14:07:40.571-04:00I don't care why he's a separatist - black...I don't care why he's a separatist - black and white - he's a separatist nonetheless. Why do you have to complicate everything so much? Sometimes things are just as simple as black and white and you read far too much into everything and I mean Everything! It wouldn't matter whether the anglophone apologized for 100 years over a war that happened 250 years ago; the separatists would still keep being the nasty, mean spirited people they are - they have proven this with Bill 14 - What is wrong with you that you don't see that? Nothing but partition of this province and letting those areas leave that want to leave will bring an end to this debate. Why on God's earth do you think it is up to them to bring this mess to an end? Why can't the federalists bring it to an end? What is wrong with that idea? You are the most stubborn individual I've ever run across as you do not try to find an end to this never ending debate and I want to get this to hell over with before real problems become totally out of hand! Why can the federalists not hold referendums? Why is it up to the separatists to call the time and opportunity to call these referendums? They make all the rules and you think this is acceptable - I do not agree with that - find fault with what I'm saying vs what they are saying and maybe you will finally understand what the hell I'm getting at. Cutie003https://www.blogger.com/profile/09298173716590278098noreply@blogger.com