Question for Quebec: Whose fault is it that other provinces are growing and you are not?
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Showing posts with label Quebec. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Who's Fault Is It BC Alberta and Ontario are growing and Quebec Is Not?
Ontario, BC, and Alberta communities are seriously under-represented in Parliament. Parliament feels the need to tip-toe around the issue because Quebec will lose clout if the government does the right thing and increases representation in these provinces.
Question for Quebec: Whose fault is it that other provinces are growing and you are not?
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Question for Quebec: Whose fault is it that other provinces are growing and you are not?
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Saturday, July 09, 2011
Quebec City Ponders 2022 Olympics Bid; Eschews Federal Government Aid
Image via WikipediaQuebec City mayor Regis Labeaume's press secretary said Wednesday the mayor will meet with Quebec Premier Jean Charest, members of the Olympic task force Team Quebec and Marcel Aubut, president of the Canadian Olympic Committee. [condensed]
"We will take the time to think this through before making a decision, and we have other people to consult," said Paul Christian Nolin.When asked about the possibility of federal support and funding, Quebec's mayor reportedly stamped his feet and said, "No, no, no. No way, José. We are the national capital of the nation of Quebec; we stand on our own two feet, while at the same time being proud to contribute to the financial well-being of the rest of Canada. But to seek financial assistance from Canada and Canadians would simply not be the Quebec way".
Just kidding -- can't let the whole "we're-a-nation" thing get in the way of federal government funding!
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Down With Monarchical Parasites, Boo The White Limousine (And Save The Clock Tower)!!!
MONTREAL — The protesters’ “Down-with-the-monarchy” chants competed with cries of “Will and Kate” as a crowd of several hundred waited for the Royal couple outside the Sainte-Justine children’s hospital.
Before the couple’s arrival, organizers read a manifesto, laying the blame for the “linguistic cleansing” of North America at William’s feet.
Their grievances ranged from the deportation of the Acadians(*) in 1755 to the federal government’s funding of anglophone community groups in Quebec.
At one point, the protesters interrupted their speeches to boo a passing white limousine, realizing belatedly that it contained not royalty but a wedding party....For some reason this last line makes the Ball Bounces think of John Lennon's white tuxedo -- maybe the druggy psychedelic absurdity of the protest event (not to mention white limousines). But where would the Quebec psyche be without a centuries-old grievance to nurse and billions in annual subsidies from the dastardly Anglais to soothe their perpetual sore?
(*) I went on a tour of Acadian PEI once. The government-funded tour guide told us, with an expression of evident satisfaction on his face, how the expelled Acadians later got to kill some English in a battle south of the border. Sounds about right for Canada -- blood-lust, government-funded, as long as it's blood lust of the right kind.
Imagine the howls if it were the reverse. Speaking of "imagine"...
* * *
Imagine there's no Anglais
It's easy if you try
No one there to fund us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Speaking French patois...
And that, my friends, is the way Le Boule bounces.
(photo source National Post article)
Friday, June 03, 2011
Quebec And The New Anti-Democratic Party
Image via WikipediaLet me get this straight.
Quebec isn't even sure it wants to be a part of Canada, yet in the face of a shrinking relative population insists that its current representation in the House be maintained?
Boo hoo hoo.
Meanwhile, the NDP appeasement campaign is in high gear:
Veteran NDP MP Joe Comartin argued that any redistribution must ensure that Quebec receives a minimum 25 per cent of the seats in that House, its traditional share. The NDP is now the dominant party in Quebec at the federal level.How can any reasonable Canadian oppose democratic reform that improves proportional representation?
If this keeps up, they should call themselves the New Anti-Democratic Party.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Racial Profiling: Dripping With Irony
Image via WikipediaRacial profiling must be outlawed and Quebec schools, police departments and government agencies must lead by hiring more visible minorities, says a report by the Quebec Human Rights Commission.Did you get that? In order to stamp out racial profiling we need more government-initiated, government-sustained, government-monitored racial profiling, now!!!
Quebec society may have a tinge of racism; it probably does, given the whole pur laine thing and the constant projection of superiority they display towards "English Canada" (while condescending to accept our perpetual handouts!).
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Saturday, May 07, 2011
Quebec Judge Orders Three-Year-Old Into Daycare
Image via WikipediaDoes this surprise anyone?
The parent-perps are anti-social home-schooler types. Or, to put it in the language of The Prisoner, they are "unmutual". Must be taught a lesson. By the state.
There is nothing more dangerous, harmful, or intolerant than western government-appointed judges exercising their undeserved, unearned powers in the name of Secular Tolerance.
They are a positive menace. And, I suspect based on the latest election outcomes, a slumbering Canada may be waking up to this fact.
If it weren't for activist judges, the definition of marriage in Canada and the US would still be rooted in biology, and our children would still have the presumptive right to a mother and a father.
Friday, May 06, 2011
Speaking of Quebec...
Image via WikipediaLet's get busy creating the New Canada that reflects present-day realities.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
What Do the NDP and Quebec Have in Common?
What Do the NDP and Quebec Have in Common?
The assumption that someone else will foot the bill.
The assumption that someone else will foot the bill.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
BallBounces Poll: Elizabeth May or Gilles Duceppe in the Debates?
Image via WikipediaI am interested in hearing what you think about this. If it had to be one or the other, who do you think should be in the federal debates -- the leader of the Green Party (which has federal aspirations and seeks to be a national party) or the leader of the Bloc Quebecois (which seeks to represent one region only).
Monday, April 04, 2011
New BallBounces Poll: "Turning Our Backs On Quebec"
“Denying our aspirations, indifferent to our interests and opposed to our values, the Conservatives have permanently turned their backs on Quebec.”
Whose words are these?
Don't forget to vote in the latest BallBounces poll, with an accelerated, election-paced three-day best-by date!
Whose words are these?
Don't forget to vote in the latest BallBounces poll, with an accelerated, election-paced three-day best-by date!
Friday, April 01, 2011
Breaking News: Quebecers Don't Hate Alberta
Image by wallyg via FlickrQuebecers don’t hate Alberta according to a poll released Thursday by a Montreal-based think-tank trying to deepen a relationship between the two provinces rife with “bad blood.”Why would they? Alberta subsidies keep proud, independent Quebec afloat.
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Monday, March 21, 2011
The Perfect Canadian Headline
Image by color line via Flickr(Hint: it has something to do with Quebec.)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Quebec Shoots Itself In The Economic Foot (Again)
Image via Wikipedia(In Canada, you don't have to work for prosperity; it's a right. We are reminded of this every time there's an election as the parties fall over themselves to offer us unearned, undeserved entitlements under the magical understanding that someone else will pay for them. If you fail as a person, you are entitled to no-questions-asked welfare; if you fail as a province, ditto; it's called equalization payments. So, making rational choices that lead to prosperity at either the personal or provincial level is not a Canadian priority, and Canada is structured as a nation to subsidize failure and penalize success.*)
Then, this:
But these newcomers don’t all speak the language of Moliere. The challenge for Quebec is to attract people who do, or are willing to learn. Fair enough: to work and advance, immigrants require a solid grasp of their new country’s main language. Otherwise they risk becoming a burden to the state.Memo to Tasha: the country's main language is English, not French -- and that is the language in which these immigrants in fact wish to raise their children. French is, for better or worse, a distinctly secondary language; you can file this one under "facts of life".
Learning English gives you access to the world; learning French gives you access to a much narrower slice of it. It is rational for parents to want to give their children the best possible advantage in life, and it is perverse and mean for the French-speaking authorities in Quebec to seek to deny parents this right.
No wonder Quebec suffers a people-drain.
*Note: I am not against welfare for the truly needy. I know of persons who are handicapped in one way or another and am happy to support them with my tax dollars.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Killing Disabled Children: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Image via WikipediaThe West's shaking off of God's fetters in the 60s lead to the humanist religion of personal rights; these rights were expressed in militant sexual immorality, the undisciplined procreation of children, easy divorce, the glorification of single-parenting (and its denying the child a father's or a mother's love while insisting all will be well) and the grand climactic sacramental rite that marks a nation that has rejected the Giver of Life: abortion.
In some of the more progressive western countries, there is also the cutting-edge-right-to-end-it-all-when-you're-done -- euthanasia.
So, sexual libertarianism, the undisciplined procreation of children, abortion, and, when you're tired of it all, euthanasia. And Liberals look on all of this and call it "good".
In Canada, the first province to embrace euthanasia will be la corrupte province, Quebec. The first national party to embrace it will be the NDP with the Liberals looking on, taking some polls, and wondering if they should climb on board.
So, the question is not will our moral slide continue, the question is how low will we go. We are still, in Canada at least, living on the fumes of a past Christian society, and Christian ideas, such as how we treat our neighbour (e.g., the Good Samaritan) are still deeply imprinted on the Canadian psyche. But time and the secular hell-bent of governments will continue to erode the Christian legacy of the present course is maintained. So, time will tell.
Killing children with disabilities is in the news and "on the table". A British commentator has come out in favor of it and it is at least considered a respectable topic of conversation. For links, go here, or here.
Will we routinely kill our disabled children? We already kill perfectly formed pre-born children, and we have yet to plumb the depths of the post-Christian neo-pagan mind. So, with Canadian newspapers such as the National Post now turning their lonely eyes to prostitution and euthansia-loving Amsterdam as an example to emulated, I wouldn't bet against it.
As Jeremiah said, the heart of man is desperately wicked.
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