Conservative Majority will Crush Quebec

While Quebec voters continue to delude themselves that it's in their best interest to vote massively for the Bloc Quebecois, the penny has finally dropped on Quebec commentators who are starting to widely report what I've been saying for almost a year now, that Harper has more or less abandoned the interests of Quebec in favour of an English only based majority government.

“...Mr. Harper, utterly frustrated by the betrayal, decided to write off Quebec for good and rule with a minority, while seeking a majority, outside the borders of  Quebec.” NoDogsOrAnglophones- April 2, 2010

“Quebeckers have finally convinced Stephen Harper that Quebec is a dead end, a place where governments go to die, not to find majorities. Coldly turning his back on the Province, Harper is slowly and deliberately setting out to take Quebec out of the Canada equation and like the oblivious frog in the pot of cold water, the heat is being turned up.” NoDogsOrAnglophones- May 17, 2010

 A realistic analysis of the death of 'Quebec Power" in Ottawa, was written last week  by commentator Joël-Denis Bellavance in La Presse

 "Mr. Harper and his senior aides were so firmly convinced that further gains in Quebec would allow them to gain a majority in Parliament...

But the results of the federal election of October 2008 shattered that belief. After a difficult electoral campaign and despite a respectable record in Quebec, the Conservatives won only 10 seats (they have since made a gain at the expense of the Bloc in Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup). At the same time, they won a dozen more seats in Ontario without a campaign of seduction.

Since then, the political Quebec-Alberta axis has officially been replaced by a new coalition: Ontario/Alberta. For conservatives, obtaining a majority in the House of Commons passes through Ontario." Read the full story (fr)

Last week's cabinet shuffle underscored this Alberta/Ontario axis, with those promoted to the cabinet representing Albertan and suburban Toronto area ridings. The promotion of Peter Kent, a unilingual Torontonian was particularly galling to Quebec as well as the newly-elected Julian Fantino, a "big C" conservative who is also no friend of the province.
No Quebec minister lost their job, but none were promoted. For hard-working Steve Blaney, of Levis, Quebec, it's a bit of a disappointment. Link fr

It's clear that Harper is looking to high-profile candidates to knock off Liberals in the riding rich suburbs of Toronto, known colloquially as the the 905's (after the area code.) Building a conservative majority now runs through southern Ontario and while nothing is sure, it is the only viable option left to the Conservatives.

That's because in Quebec, the Conservatives realize that they are dead.

The Bloc Quebecois MP summed it up neatly, not realizing that his analysis, underscore why Quebeckers shouldn't vote for the Bloc;

"They're picking people from Ontario because we are possibly on the eve of a federal election. There is a political message here. He's winking  at Ontario, noting that he obviously cannot improve his score in Quebec . Mario Laframboise, Bloc québécois

For separatist journalist Josée Legault, it's somehow unfair that the Prime Minister has turned his back on Quebec.
As a longtime advocate of squeezing Ottawa for whatever Quebec can get, whilst pursuing a sovereignist agenda, a policy that has been quite successful over the years, the fact that the gravy train has pulled into the station and parked, is particularly hard to take.
In a blog piece appropriately entitled Bye Bye Québec, Ms Legault reports rather bitterly that Quebec no longer figures in Harper's plans.

Whether Harper can actually pull off a majority government is debatable, he certainly can't do it today. Most likely Harper will work on southern Ontario over the next months and recruit more 'star' candidates with promises of cabinet positions.

If the Conservatives do achieve a majority, it will be nothing less than apocalyptic for Quebec.

Free from a large Quebec presence in the caucus or the cabinet, Harper will get down to payback, punishing Quebec for turning its back on the Conservatives.
Quebec can expect him to follow through on all those ant-Quebec legislative initiatives that have been impossible to pass under a minority government.

First he will finally add those thirty seats to parliament, diluting Quebec and the Maritimes political weight in Parliament. Out of those thirty seats, the Conservatives will probably win about two-thirds.

Next he'll pass legislation removing federal subsidies to political parties, a move which will cripple the Bloc Quebecois, since they don't really raise any money on their own. Quebeckers have shown themselves the least generous Canadians when it comes to reaching in their pocket and so the next time Mr. Duceppe wishes to visit Washington to speak, he'll be riding a Greyhound bus.

Most importantly, Harper will curry favour in the ethnic communities of Toronto and that means no decrease in immigration levels, which stands at a devastatingly high level, that is slowly, but surely eroding Quebec's demographic position.

These policies are a given, but it could get worse if the Conservatives decide to 're-work' equalization payments or fiddle with bilingualism.  

For Quebec, a Conservative majority government represents a grave threat, one that is starting to scare the crap out of political commentators in Quebec.

But oblivious as usual, expect Quebec voters to send the Bloc back to Ottawa in force, not believing or realizing that four or five years of a majority Conservative government will destroy what is left of 'Quebec Power' and change this country forever. 

Quebec may react by voting in a separatist government, but without enough votes for independence, it will be another case of the worst possible outcome.

For Quebec there's nothing left to do but to cross their fingers and pray for the good fortunes of the federal Liberals., otherwise......

PAJU Continues Boycott of Shoe Store!

As I mentioned in a recent post the last thing Amir Khadir needs is the boycott of LE MARCHEUR to continue.
I also predicted that the masochists at PAJU would continue the boycott despite the fact that it has blown up in their face and actually increased sales in the store.

The PAJU boycott continues tomorrow at 1:00PM

Boycott Israeli apartheid!!

We are drawing a line in the sand : NO MORE ASSOCIATION WITH ISRAELI APARTHEID!!!
Invite the owner of the boutique Le Marcheur to take the moral decision to remove the shoes made in Apartheid Israel !
Saturday, January 8th 2011
Between 1PM and 3PM, corner Duluth and St-Denis

If you wish to confront them or buy shoes tomorrow is a good opportunity.

If you are a St. Denis merchant and would like PAJU to boycott your store as well, you can make this request tomorrow.
Remember stores lucky enough to be targeted will see sales swell to unprecedented levels!

Who is the Real Terrorist?

 I thought I'd point out a reader comment left on an older post, because not many of us follow older threads and this one is definitely worth viewing;

"My father's uncle is Wilfred Vincent O'Neil who was killed by the FLQ! It's too bad what happen back then as our family still misses him yet today! "

Posted by Crystal O'Neil (Gaspesie,QC)  Jan.05/11     The War Measures Act- 40 Years Later

It's been forty years since the deadly FLQ attacks took place, but for the families of those murdered, time doesn't erase the pain of having lost a loved one. For those who suffered through injuries and amputations, the reality of those barbaric acts linger. The FLQ perpetrated over 170 acts of violence which resulted in eight deaths and a multitude of injured.

Sgt. Wilfred V. O'Neil, was the first fatal casualty of the FLQ reign of terror. A night watchman at the Canadian Army Recruiting Centre in Montreal, he was killed in January 1963, when he tried to remove 10 sticks of dynamite from a container.
"In February 1969 - the FLQ set off a powerful bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive destruction and seriously injuring twenty-seven people." Link 

"The FLQ sent a bomb to a Quebec shoe manufacturer, to show their solidarity with the union. Therese Morin, 64, the secretary to the general manager was killed when it exploded in the office May 5, 1965. She had just returned from lunch .....
.....On April 19, 1964, some of the FLQ raided a gun shop in Montreal for weapons. They murdered store manager Leslie MacWilliams, 56.
....Sgt. Major Walter Leja, 42, had both hands blown off as he was trying to defuse the last of three FLQ bombs in a mailbox in the Westmount region of Montreal. The bombers were just warming up." LINK

Today these deaths are largely forgotten and even Quebec schools make sure to gloss over the FLQ.
It's little wonder, as the author of the actual book used to teach history has characterized the death of Pierre Laporte at the hands of the terrorists 'accidental' and that the other deaths were 'collateral damage.' LINK
In Quebec, especially among  young francophones, the FLQ is nothing more than folklore, it's barbaric image successfully rehabilitated by sympathetic journalists who have contributed to a historical makeover par excellence.

A review of the French press will reveal that the word 'terrorist' is never used to describe the members of the FLQ, with the sanitized term of 'Felkist,' (FLQer) much preferred.

The political revisionism is reminiscent of Stalinist apologists who created the myth for decades that 'Uncle Joe' was a swell guy.
The success of the campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of the FLQ is underlined by the welcoming arms that accepted the terrorists  back into mainstream Quebec society, where many of the terrorists have worked  for unions, government and as esteemed journalists, their terrorist past, never much of an issue.

Many will say that it is fit and proper that those who commit crimes be re-integrated back into society once the offender has paid his debt.
But the fact remains that the FLQ terrorists were treated rather lightly, with some receiving nothing more than a slap on the wrist or a couple of years in the pen. The largest sentence served was but eleven years, and the majority of the terrorists never apologized to the families of the victims, nor expressed any remorse whatsoever.

Many went back to a life of activism and in the case of Rhéal Mathieu, a return to terrorism itself, when he was convicted of involvement in the firebombing of a Second Cup coffee shop in 2001. LINK

Mr. Mathieu remains a prolific and honoured contributor to vigile.net as well as convicted FLQ terrorist Pierre Schneider who also writes for the militant website and who signs his articles with this beauty (proud member of the 1st FLQ-1963)

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Mr. Schneider, according to Wikipedia remains a member of the Réseau de résistance du Québécois.


So it was with utter disgust that I witnessed the forces of order move at light speed in reaction to a complaint  by the Parti Quebecois against Colonel James Angus Brown over 'terrorist threats' over his blog posts at Parkavenuegazette.com.

Read my post my Anglo Website Triggers Charges of Racism

Had the blog posts called for the death of, say, Jewish Imperialists or Anglo Imperialists or Christians of any sort, we'd be looking at a three year wait for the police to even consider any action.

Think I'm joking?
Read an account here of the pursuit of an Internet hate-monger from Toronto that has taken years to prosecute. LINK

So the poor colonel is a threat to society.... Hmmmm

In a recent post on vigile.net, convicted terrorist Rhéal Mathieu reprinted a hate letter which was sent to homes in Westmount threatening all sorts of hell in the case of partition, including the burning of Westmount Square. LINK

Did the police pick up Mathieu or force him to remove the offending article?
When a twice convicted terrorist makes a threat, shouldn't the police take it seriously?

Colonel James Angus Brown a terrorist?  Hardly....

Only in Quebec can real terrorists be labelled harmless and the bombastic as terrorists.

It's  a question of what language the threatener speaks.

Even Separatists Agree. Montreal is English!

After yesterday's post, which seemed to push a particularly angry button among readers, let's do something a little on the humorous side today.

But before I continue,  I want to congratulate those readers who enriched the debate with a plethora of thoughtful comments yesterday. I do believe it was the best batch of comments ever written on this blog and no, it had nothing to do with the fact that 'ALLCAPS' was silent!!

Unfortunately I deleted an important comment from 'Appartchick' by accident. Too bad, it was excellent. How about a re-post?

Onward!
I read with amusement a post by Quebec City blowhard Rejean Labrie on vigile.net who wrote a pathetic lament about what he perceives as the sad reality of English in Montreal. He reluctantly admits that Montreal is what it always was, a bilingual city, something he abhors.
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"Come and  settle in Montreal where you can live exclusively in English"

"Venez vous établir à Montréal, où l’on peut vivre exclusivement en anglais"

Perhaps the language militants are finally accepting reality.

He makes the point that immigrants can easily assimilate into the English cultural community without any difficulty and that they can successfully function without French.
While it isn't easy for anyone to function without French in Quebec, his point about many immigrants adopting the English culture is quite valid and while for him it represents a sad reality, I'm reminded of the old adage- 'One man's meat is another man's poison.'

"...you can never count on these people to join the nationalist cause that drives us, this is a very unfortunate fact, but a fact. And it's not because we haven't reached out to them generously. No, they have no intention of joining the majority culture of Quebec, it's just that there's no incentive for them to do so. In one word or a thousand, they couldn't care less about preserving our culture."

As for our English community, which has lost 300,000 members through emigration over the last forty years, survival is based in renewal. It's a fact that immigrants have rallied to help save the English community. As a grateful anglophone, I welcome them to our ranks!

As for Mr. Labrie, I'm sure he was rubbing his hands in glee, all those years, watching the anglos leave his beloved Quebec, purifying the population as they left.  

The pain that he manifests so clearly in his post, over those cursed immigrants that ruined his separatist plans, can only bring a smile to my face and perhaps to yours.....

But enough of that, I said humorous!.....

Mr. Labrie added a photo collage of store signs showing an arrogant use of English to the exclusion of French.
Yup, never mind bilingual, these signs showed an utter contempt for Bill 101 in that nary a word of French was to be found.

But there's something wrong!

The longer I looked at the pictures, the more I believe them to be fraudulent.

Can you play detective and spot the giveaways?

Here's some 'think music' to help you concentrate, click on the arrow and study the pictures. Then scroll down to compare thoughts!

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• The bottom right hand photo is what got me started. It has a date of 2004, indicating that these photos are seven years old! Who uses seven year old pictures to prove a point about today?

• It also seems that all the photos seven years old, too. Why? Because two of the signs have a 473-XXXX telephone number, indicating that they were both taken in the same neighbourhood. Then there is no area code in front of the telephone number. Today we use 10 digit dialling in Quebec, so these pictures are were probably snapped at the same time and place as the photo with the 2004 date.

• The "473=XXXX numbers would put the business' in the francophone dominated town of St. Eustache, Quebec, where trust me, no business would dare post in English exclusively.

•  In Quebec, even in English the word is spelled "CENTRE" when referring to a place (Shopping centre) and "CENTER" when referring to the middle of something (like a target.) The use of "Center" to denote a place is used in the USA and in the Maritime provinces in Canada.

• The signage is just too amateurish or corny to come from Montreal. 

In fact none of these pictures were taken in Montreal!

At little research shows that most or all the photos were all taken in Grand Falls, New Brunswick.

The giveaway was the phone number and business name, "473-4644 +Speedy Auto Glass" which is easily be traced back to Grand Falls via a simple Google search. Some of the businesses seem to be closed, but at least two others also trace back to Grand Falls!

Mr. Labrie you are so BUSTED!!!

$2,000 Fine for Speaking English?

There's a certain amount of anglo-bashing that one can expect when perusing fringe website sites such as vigile.net where every crackpot, racist, separatist, terrorist and language extremist can have his or her say.
It's part of the package that freedom of expression provides and something we've all learned to accept.

That being said, the mainstream press is supposed to be responsible. Editors monitor content to make sure that racism, sexism, hate material and all the other bad 'isms' stay where they belong.
Like porn, hate literature remains available if one wants it, but common convention and good sense keeps it out of the mainstream press.

So the fact that English and anglos get bashed rather cruelly in some web sites is of no never mind, but when it crosses over to regular television or the mainstream press, it's time to denounce these racist attacks in no uncertain terms.

I nearly fell out of my chair, watching an episode of conservative Mario Dumont's television show, where he interviewed fellow journalist Martin Pelletier, who decried the fact that there are too many anglos in Laval, a Montreal suburb and second largest city in Quebec.
Too many anglos in Laval. Oh my!

Mr Pelletier presented some statistics showing that the anglo population is growing at an 'alarming' rate and that soon it will 'threaten' the francophone majority.

Between 1996 and 2006, the city saw a 35% increase in anglophones, which he blamed largely on the anglicized Greek and Italian communities who have created 'ethnic' neighbourhoods, in the hitherto linguistically pure Laval.

As the interview progressed, his rage grew to a boil, as he recounted the story that in Carrefour Laval, a mega shopping center, English was being spoken quite openly and that merchants had the audacity to greet customers in English. Horrors!!!!

Disparaging the mall by calling it "Crossroads Laval,'  Mr. Pelletier was outraged that such a terrible catastrophe could happen. He then actually proposed that English be banned in the mall, as well as other retail establishments! 

You heard me, I'm not making this up, I couldn't, even if I tried.

Martin Pelletier called for a $2,000 fine for merchants who greet customers in English.

 Even Mario Dupont, conservative in every aspect, every aspect except language, that is, didn't think it appropriate or necessary to call him out. Shame!

I wonder if Mr. Pelletier was caught up in the moment or actually believes that in this country of Canada, of which as I last checked, Quebec remains a part of, one should be fined for speaking English!

I'm sure if you ask Mr. Pelletier if he is a racist, he will be insulted.
I'm sure he'll tell you that he has nothing against the English and is merely defending the French language and culture.
But racism is racism, no matter the motivation.

And so, the hysteria vis-a-vis English and Anglos has transcended the lunatic websites into mainstream television and media.

The above video is by no means an isolated event, it is the current vogue in anglo-bashing.

Discussing Anglos as if they are some sort of a problem, is too reminiscent of other historical racist attacks on minorities.

Think I'm exaggerating?

What if the word 'anglophone' would be interchanged with 'Black," "Jew" or "Native." Imagine a television graphic showing that the Black, Jewish or Native population had grown by 35% in a town or city.
Imagine a commentator sounding the alarm that too many Jews/Blacks/Natives is affecting the social 'balance!'

The sad part of it all, is that Quebeckers still perceive Western Canadians as rednecks.

Could you imagine a Saskatchewan television commentator, decrying the fact that too many natives are moving into Regina? Could you imagine a television producer allowing a graphic to appear on the screen denoting this rise in the numbers of this native community? ...I don't think so.

Led by noted anglo-basher Louis Prefontaine, whose moronic and self-serving anglo-bashing statistics are now quoted as a legitimate source of data in the mainstream media, the attack on Anglos continues unashamedly. LINK

The real question is where all this is going... I wonder.

The fear of an English Laval has spawned groups like the Mouvement Laval français, whose stated goal is to check and reverse the creeping English influence in city.

Groups like these always claim that they are not anti-English, just pro-French. They claim that they are defending a heritage in danger of being lost to Mongol hordes,  outside influences.

We've all heard these ethnic 'purity' arguments before, be it in Germany, Bosnia or Afghanistan.  I shall let readers draw their own analogies.

My question is this. How exactly are militants going to defend French? How is this modern Barbarian Invasion to be confronted?

Mr. Pelttier's answer to fine people for speaking English in public may be a start, but it won't do anything to keep the Greeks and the Italians out of Laval.

Perhaps a letter should go out to all property developers reminding them that it's their responsibility not to sell new homes to these  'undesirables'.

Perhaps Laval should change its welcoming road sign to read;

"Population 400,000 Quebecois,  60,000 Anglaises/Ethnies"

Presque tout les monde Bienvenu!

Perhaps the Mouvement Laval français  should advise real estate agents and those wishing to sell their homes of the Francophone 'first' policy.
Perhaps Catholic priests should be encouraged to advise their congregations against fraternization and above all, horrors of horrors, inter-marriage.
Perhaps the cable companies should be forced to remove English and ethnic channels from their grid and perhaps English newspapers and magazines should be banned.

Of course English schools would be banned, that's a no-brainer.

Perhaps those persons who show up to an emergency room describing their injury in English should be refused admission or fined $2,000.

Perhaps Mr. Pelltier or Mr. Prefontaine would suggest Laval, in order to maintain its francophone purity, open German style concentration camps for recalcitrant anglos or send those with
some hope of rehabilitation to Ho-Chi-Minh style re-education camps.

Perhaps Laval can set-up a Soviet-style Gulag for English refusniks on the grounds of the defunct  St-Vincent-de- Paul Penitentiary, where dangerous multi-cultural politicos can be safely ensconced so as not to infect the purity of the francophone majority.

Perhaps a clandestine group of francophone radicals can don white-hooded costumes and burn crosses in front of Laval synagogues and mosques, hoping to drive the impure back across the river to the heathen land of Montreal. 

Ridiculous?..damn right.

Almost every major city in North America has had to deal with the reality of immigration and the changing face of citizens.

Only in Quebec do people believe they can arrest reality and wind back the clock to a time of ethnic purity.

As for English in Carrefour Laval, too effing bad!