Extortion And Separation
It is nothing short of infuriating that a Canadian province has a population that maintains a provincial party whose intention it is to lead the province out of the federation, and that it votes into power another, supporting party dedicated to the same intolerable mission. What makes this such a damnable situation is that both the provincial and the federally-designated parties squeeze and demand out of Canadian taxpayers one concession after another and the funding to go with them.
Their immense sense of entitlement to match their sense of aggrievement that they are an island of French-speaking, French-cultured first-founders whose specialness is never adequately recognized is a source of constant friction between the majority English-speaking population of the country and the hubristic French-speakers. The Province of Quebec within the federation of the provinces that make up Canada is, in fact, a self-selected apartheid state.
They consider themselves nationalists, aspiring to achieve nationhood for their province. And they scorn those francophones in the province who consider themselves federalists, content to have their province remain within Confederation. And while Quebecois in the majority do seem to feel they would prefer to remain within Canada, they have not been averse to playing Devil's advocate.
They support the Bloc Quebecois to send it as an irritant to sit in the House of Commons, much like an oyster hosts a grain of sand that irritates the oyster compelling it to cover the speck of sand with a material that eventually turns into a precious pearl. For Quebecers that pearl is extravagant transfer payments and other monetary considerations in reflection of Quebec's expertness in turning the screw of ransom.
The rest of Canada is so anxious to retain Quebec within the federation, so eager to please Quebec, that it agrees to permit itself to be held to ransom, and this state of affairs has continued over the years to the point where finally many in the rest of Canada are beginning to question the utility and the futility of it all. Why bother? They want to leave; leave and be done with it.
The verbal atrocities emanating from the just-concluded Parti Quebecois conference that resulted in a resounding re-affirmation of its leader Pauline Marois with a 93.1% vote of confidence, is reflexively gagging. Ms. Marois stating that Ottawa would be judged harshly by resisting Quebec's demands for more power. By whom? The ever-resourcefully-blackmailing Bloc?
There was a defeated proposal to outlaw English on commercial signs. The time is not yet ripe for that initiative; it is yet to come. Bill 101 will receive a proposal to incorporate an additional restriction disallowing francophones and the children of immigrants to choose to attend English-language colleges. All in the name of cementing into law the primacy of the French language.
Delegates to the conference voted to ensure French is "the priority language" in all provincial courts and tribunals in Quebec, inclusive of those under federal jurisdiction. And the language police will be further instructed to become more diligently vigilant and more intrusive and more offensively aggressive.
Under consideration is the investigation of whether anglophone hospitals and municipalities serve sufficient numbers of anglophones to justify continued English-language operation.
"It is another way to show how sovereignty is necessary for our identity, for our language and even for the development of our cultural economic and social programs", Ms. Marois exulted. For none is as exceptional as francophones. In the interests of solidifying its position Quebec is prepared to invoke the notwithstanding clause to override the Charter's protection of rights and freedoms.
In other words, leaving anglophones, allophones and immigrants with few choices but to accept the mandated status quo. Quebec is close to a provincial election. The currently-ruling Liberal party is at an extremely low popularity level. Cue the Parti Quebecois.
Which is prepared, once it is re-installed in power, to insist from the federal government on new powers and control respecting language, environment, culture, economic and regional development, and immigration budgets. There is never enough funding for Quebec, which prides itself on its social programs paid for courtesy of the rest of Canada.
And the once very-catholic Roman Catholic Church-dominated province moves ever closer to complete social secularity, for a new Parti Quebecois government will be prepared to put religious orthodoxy in its public place, barring public servants from wearing conspicuous religious symbols.
And the Bloc, its partner in secession?
The unconscionable part of all of this is that the Canadian taxpayer across this great country is paying for the PQ and the Bloc to perform their nasty little dance of extortion and separation.
Their immense sense of entitlement to match their sense of aggrievement that they are an island of French-speaking, French-cultured first-founders whose specialness is never adequately recognized is a source of constant friction between the majority English-speaking population of the country and the hubristic French-speakers. The Province of Quebec within the federation of the provinces that make up Canada is, in fact, a self-selected apartheid state.
They consider themselves nationalists, aspiring to achieve nationhood for their province. And they scorn those francophones in the province who consider themselves federalists, content to have their province remain within Confederation. And while Quebecois in the majority do seem to feel they would prefer to remain within Canada, they have not been averse to playing Devil's advocate.
They support the Bloc Quebecois to send it as an irritant to sit in the House of Commons, much like an oyster hosts a grain of sand that irritates the oyster compelling it to cover the speck of sand with a material that eventually turns into a precious pearl. For Quebecers that pearl is extravagant transfer payments and other monetary considerations in reflection of Quebec's expertness in turning the screw of ransom.
The rest of Canada is so anxious to retain Quebec within the federation, so eager to please Quebec, that it agrees to permit itself to be held to ransom, and this state of affairs has continued over the years to the point where finally many in the rest of Canada are beginning to question the utility and the futility of it all. Why bother? They want to leave; leave and be done with it.
The verbal atrocities emanating from the just-concluded Parti Quebecois conference that resulted in a resounding re-affirmation of its leader Pauline Marois with a 93.1% vote of confidence, is reflexively gagging. Ms. Marois stating that Ottawa would be judged harshly by resisting Quebec's demands for more power. By whom? The ever-resourcefully-blackmailing Bloc?
There was a defeated proposal to outlaw English on commercial signs. The time is not yet ripe for that initiative; it is yet to come. Bill 101 will receive a proposal to incorporate an additional restriction disallowing francophones and the children of immigrants to choose to attend English-language colleges. All in the name of cementing into law the primacy of the French language.
Delegates to the conference voted to ensure French is "the priority language" in all provincial courts and tribunals in Quebec, inclusive of those under federal jurisdiction. And the language police will be further instructed to become more diligently vigilant and more intrusive and more offensively aggressive.
Under consideration is the investigation of whether anglophone hospitals and municipalities serve sufficient numbers of anglophones to justify continued English-language operation.
"It is another way to show how sovereignty is necessary for our identity, for our language and even for the development of our cultural economic and social programs", Ms. Marois exulted. For none is as exceptional as francophones. In the interests of solidifying its position Quebec is prepared to invoke the notwithstanding clause to override the Charter's protection of rights and freedoms.
In other words, leaving anglophones, allophones and immigrants with few choices but to accept the mandated status quo. Quebec is close to a provincial election. The currently-ruling Liberal party is at an extremely low popularity level. Cue the Parti Quebecois.
Which is prepared, once it is re-installed in power, to insist from the federal government on new powers and control respecting language, environment, culture, economic and regional development, and immigration budgets. There is never enough funding for Quebec, which prides itself on its social programs paid for courtesy of the rest of Canada.
And the once very-catholic Roman Catholic Church-dominated province moves ever closer to complete social secularity, for a new Parti Quebecois government will be prepared to put religious orthodoxy in its public place, barring public servants from wearing conspicuous religious symbols.
And the Bloc, its partner in secession?
"More united than ever. We have only one task to accomplish: elect the maximum number of sovereigntists in Ottawa and then we go to the next phase. Electing a PQ government. A strong Bloc in Ottawa. A PQ in power in Quebec. And everything becomes possible." Gilles Duceppe
The unconscionable part of all of this is that the Canadian taxpayer across this great country is paying for the PQ and the Bloc to perform their nasty little dance of extortion and separation.
Labels: Canada, Culture, Government of Canada, Politics of Convenience
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