Critics Be Damned

"These labels attached to francophones sustain lasting prejudices. These abusive accusations create division and provoke fear and mistrust among new arrivals and anglophones, alienating them from Quebec or French-Canadian society."
"Many of these media perhaps should be examining their consciences. We will probably never know if there was a causal link between the attack and murder perpetrated the night of the Parti Quebecois election on September 4, 2012, and the francophobic campaign spread in certain media, but one thing is for certain; it did not contribute to and is still not contributing to lowering the tension."
Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste report "United Against Francophobia" study

A statement signed by 101 Quebecers whose luminaries of the public Quebecois weal include former PQ premier Bernard Landry claim that anti-Quebec insults have been brought to a "rare and troubling intensity". The propulsive that has caused the incendiary rise in anti-Quebec consideration appears to have arisen from the government's recently proposed charter of values and the conflicted debate that has surfaced from all quarters, pro and con.

Those in support of the measures that Quebec proposes to take, in its zeal to present itself as a proudly secular state whose overwhelming desire to grant all its citizens equality and speed them on to the comfort of fraternity are to be congratulated for their social wisdom and perspicacity in recognizing a noble ideal when it comes before them. Those who have been damning in their resistance against aiding the government of Quebec to install a forward-looking and just society, must be recognized for the social barbarians that they represent.

Their mind-clanging resistance to the inevitable within a secular Quebec that has shunned centuries of traditional church-dominated pressures holding the province back from achieving the kind of moral and social advances it requires to propel it into sovereignty simply emanates from ignorant backwardness on the part of those who don't wish to understand the lofty ideals of Equality, Liberty, Fraternity espoused by France, the mother-country.

French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, right, greets Quebec Premier Pauline Marois prior to a meeting at the Hotel Matignon in Paris. Friday, Dec. 13, 2013 (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Where even now Paris teeters on the brink of a socialist ideology that cries out for redemption from past colonialist attitudes consigning "Arab-Oriental" citizens of the country to second-class status, demeaning to their Islamic traditions. Where a new report commissioned by the government in response to doubts over rising racism and the country's ethnic divisions recommends the teaching of Arabic and African languages in schools, Quebec stoutly proclaims French-first, and non to religious symbolism.

Some of the Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste report's findings are truly horrendous, going a long way to explaining how and why the 101 francophone elite were so eager to sign on to the 25-page study condemning the dire situation in Quebec. Details of the "grim findings" were messages scrawled on the walls of "the washrooms of popular Montreal downtown restaurants". Quel Horreur!

Innocent, informative and important-to-democracy election signs defaced with graffiti. A swastika etched on a statue of Camille Laurin, instigator of Quebec's language law, Bill 101. Vitriol, horrible images on social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter, where anonymous social deviants are enabled to spurn decency and fairness by scribbling their infantile rejection of all that is meaningful in Quebec society.

A photograph discovered on the Internet portraying Quebec Premier Pauline Marois as Adolf Hitler. Intolerable! Unforgivable. What kind of mutant monsters exist in the province? Tasteless images, disturbing messages, obvious signs of widespread "discourse of intimidation and contempt". And the Societe Saint-Jean Baptiste will not stand for it! Something must be done. Something will most definitely be done.

Harsh critiques expressed over government policy. A lawless, chaotic, frenetically anarchic streak of sinister underground operatives have clearly gained a distressing measure of entitlement to express themselves in disgustingly unforgivable terms in their absurd disgruntlement over the needed new initiatives of the Parti Quebecois government in its goal of transforming the province into a responsible, self-governing nation of proud Quebecers.

Former union leader Gerald Larose, former PQ MNA Pierre Curzi, singer Paul Piche, former premier Mr. Landry, and far far more and honourably representative guardians of the public weal in Quebec will staunchly stand together to express their support for the noble yearning of Quebecois to be masters in their own house, and critics be damned...!