http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/look+Harel+record/1662995/story.html
anglo-basher (critics of megacities are anglo colonialists), ignoring Franco anti-mergerites
opportunist (took over established party without a leadership debate); but will be "coronated" later
borough powers are regulated by the province, not the city (as she wishes)
architect of the megacity by fiat, not referendum; refused consultation on the issue; her party (PQ) had not run on the issue, even disavowed it
set up commission to study megacity proposal; when it recommended against it, she ignored it
Her good examples:
* Boston: in reality, that area had many more munis than MTL
* Europe (34 countries had passed laws against forced mergers)
* Toronto (costs had risen, not fallen)
* would curb urban sprawl (has not)
* would redistribute wealth (was not the best way to do so)
supports super-majority requirements to leave the megacity (but leaving Canada requires a simple majority)
a centralist, says the boroughs are too powerful ["quasi-villes"]
a unilingualist in a cosmopolitan city
an "evil sovereignist" (selon Fagstein)
Showing posts with label sovereignty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sovereignty. Show all posts
27 October 2011
13 August 2011
Quebethnic nationalism
http://rabble.ca/babble/central-canada/quebec-election-partie-deux
Quebec continues to save Canada from a permanent Conservative majority, time and time again. Even the [Action Democratique du Quebec] failed in almost every outing. The [Bloc Quebecois] is the most effective progressive force in parliament. There's no question that Quebec is the most progressive part of Canada. Certainly no evidence that Quebec would elect an ADQ-style government, since the ADQ was just destroyed.The ADQ was the official opposition in the previous provincial election leading to a minority government. That is the kind of failure the Ontario New Democratic Party dreams of at night. And the federal NDP has not the record of "support the bourgeois parties' minority government now, campaign on your platform later" of the Bloc Quebecois. The NDP has almost always tried to make Parliament and the country) work to the best of their ability.
"Ethnic nationalism" is at a low because what the [Parti Quebecois] practices is no longer ethnic nationalism, it's as civic as Canadian nationalism, which is hardly as pure as the driven snow. ... it's posts like yours that make me want to support the efforts by some in Quebec to get out of Canada. If that attitude sums up Canadian nationalism (or should I say Ontario nationalism?), better off outside Canada."Let us put aside the debate as to whether Quebec belongs in Canada. Just tell us when in recent history an official opposition in English Canada said "speak white, hostie, or lose the right to vote or run for public office"?
28 July 2011
Que reigne Andre Pratte
"38% plus un"
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/editorialistes/andre-pratte/200812/16/01-810773-38-plus-un.php
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/opinions/editorialistes/andre-pratte/200812/16/01-810773-38-plus-un.php
Au cours d'une entrevue diffusée dimanche à l'émission Les coulisses du pouvoir (Radio-Canada), le chef du Bloc québécois a fait deux affirmations éminemment contestables. Plongés dans leur habituelle léthargie, les adversaires politiques de Gilles Duceppe ont laissé passer ces déclarations qui auraient dû les faire bondir.
Interrogé sur la popularité de l'option souverainiste, M. Duceppe a déclaré: «Sur 200 élus québécois à Québec et à Ottawa, il y en a 101 qui sont souverainistes, les 49 du Bloc, les 51 du Parti québécois et M. Khadir de Québec solidaire. Ça fait 50% plus un.»
Quel calcul tordu que voilà! Dans les faits, le Parti québécois, le Bloc et Québec solidaire ont obtenu 38,5% de tous les votes exprimés au Québec lors des élections fédérales et provinciales de l'automne. Les indépendantistes sont donc loin de leur mythique 50% plus un. Ils en sont plutôt à 38% plus un... et ce, même si le PQ et le Bloc ont tous deux répété, durant leur campagne respective, que l'indépendance n'était pas un enjeu des élections ...
20 June 2011
"The friends of Pauline"
"PQ leader donates to Jeunes Patriotes du Québec, the sovereignist goon squad"
The source of the threats remains unclear. But any such threats should have been taken seriously, considering the organizations that put pressure on the concert's producer, the C4 agency, to cancel the performances.
These organizations are the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal and the Association culturelle Louis-Hébert de Rosemont/St-Michel, an offshoot of the SSJB-M and a sponsor of the concert.
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Young men prepare to march in the May 18, 2008 parade organized by the Jeunes Patriotes du Québec.
JOHN KENNEY, THE GAZETTE
Both have close ties to the Montreal-based Jeunes Patriotes du Québec, the radical "street sovereignists" known for creating politically motivated disturbances, usually at federalist gatherings but once even at a meeting of the Parti Québécois ...
19 June 2011
Fine company
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/le-droit/elections-quebecoises-2008/200811/21/01-803262-villemaire-savoue-des-affinites-avec-le-pen.php
Pour le moment, déplore-t-il, les seuls vrais Québécois sont les « Québécois de souche ». « Et un vrai Québécois de souche, c'est quelqu'un dont les ancêtres sont arrivés ici avec les Français », précise Jean-Roch Villemaire.
... Il mentionne entre autres que Jörg Haider a interdit l'affiche bilingue en slovène et en allemand dans sa province. Une mesure que le Parti indépendantiste appliquerait dans le contexte québécois en interdisant l'affichage en français et en anglais permis par la Loi 101 ...... Quant à Jean-Marie Le Pen, président du Front national en France, Jean-Roch Villemaire dit s'en être inspiré pour proposer un moratoire sur l'immigration au Québec, le printemps dernier. Depuis, M. Villemaire s'est rallié à la proposition de son parti qui consiste à réduire à 20 000 (donc de la moitié) le nombre de nouveaux arrivants, dans le but de protéger les emplois détenus par les Québécois ...
Pour le moment, déplore-t-il, les seuls vrais Québécois sont les « Québécois de souche ». « Et un vrai Québécois de souche, c'est quelqu'un dont les ancêtres sont arrivés ici avec les Français », précise Jean-Roch Villemaire.
À ses yeux, les immigrants actuels deviennent des citoyens canadiens avant d'être des citoyens québécois. « Ce n'est pas de leur faute, je ferais la même chose à leur place. Quand ils arrivent ici, les immigrants reçoivent un petit drapeau du Canada et doivent chanter l'hymne national. »
Le Parti indépendantiste promet de faire la souveraineté immédiatement après l'élection d'un gouvernement. Une fois au pouvoir, il s'assurerait que les immigrants signent un contrat d'entrée, dit M. Villemaire. Ils devraient notamment s'engager à respecter certaines valeurs comme la laïcité, l'égalité homme-femme et la langue française. En cas de bris de contrat, l'immigrant serait expulsé ...
10 February 2010
Psycho-history of la nation
... PQ Cabinet Minister Dr. Camille Laurin ... used to muse about how he went into politics to administer "psychoanalysis" on the Quebecois people. [He believed they] suffered from a collective [Oedipal] complex [towards] the English, that could only be cured through [voting] YES in a referendum on [sovereignty].
29 January 2010
QS rally, circa November 2008
from the Quebec solidaire website:
Montreal, on November 23 - Solidary Quebec held a large partisan gathering today in Montreal, in the company of songwriter and performer Dan Bigras, the militant ecologist Daniel Breton and the founder of Équiterre, Laure Waridel.
Following the short speeches, the partisans were invited to take part in a door-to-door blitz in the districts of Gouin and Draper, before going to a musical performance in the evening.
In front of a tightly packed room, the spokesperson of Solidary Quebec, Francoise David (Gouin) delivered a speech in which she stressed the importance of electing Solidaire deputies on December 8.
“If we are not in the National Assembly, who else will speak about these teachers with the overloaded classes and the insufficient teaching resources? Who else will say that we must put an end to tax avoidance by the large companies and large fortunes? Who else will say that the era of gas and oil is finished? Who else will speak about living together without complacency and without intolerance?
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“If these stakes will not be raised in the National Assembly without Quebec Solidaire, you do not wait either to find them raised with the debate Tuesday evening. Without Solidaire Quebec, this debate of the chiefs will be as artificial as dull, so much the programs of the ADQ, the PQ and of the PLQ are similar. ” Francoise David concluded her speech by saying that it hoped to be invited to the debate of the chiefs to his manner, in spite of the refusal of the consortium and the political parties.
The Solidaire spokesperson of Quebec Amir Khadir (Draper) for its part pointed out that sovereignty is in the middle of the Solidaire project. “As Richard Desjardins said it very recently, Solidaire Quebec is the only party with still speaking about sovereignty. And we will continue to speak it about it does not matter the economic situation, it does not matter where the wind turns. “As many Quebec we believe that sovereignty must be associated with a project removing for Quebec. The Québécois Party proposes to us since too a long time an emptied sovereignty of its substance. Does Solidaire Quebec propose with the Inhabitants of Quebec to give again a direction with sovereignty because after all, which sovereignty wants to say if we are unable to control our economy? What wants to say sovereignty if we are unable to protect our environment and our employment? ”
Montreal, on November 23 - Solidary Quebec held a large partisan gathering today in Montreal, in the company of songwriter and performer Dan Bigras, the militant ecologist Daniel Breton and the founder of Équiterre, Laure Waridel.
Following the short speeches, the partisans were invited to take part in a door-to-door blitz in the districts of Gouin and Draper, before going to a musical performance in the evening.
In front of a tightly packed room, the spokesperson of Solidary Quebec, Francoise David (Gouin) delivered a speech in which she stressed the importance of electing Solidaire deputies on December 8.
“If we are not in the National Assembly, who else will speak about these teachers with the overloaded classes and the insufficient teaching resources? Who else will say that we must put an end to tax avoidance by the large companies and large fortunes? Who else will say that the era of gas and oil is finished? Who else will speak about living together without complacency and without intolerance?
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“If these stakes will not be raised in the National Assembly without Quebec Solidaire, you do not wait either to find them raised with the debate Tuesday evening. Without Solidaire Quebec, this debate of the chiefs will be as artificial as dull, so much the programs of the ADQ, the PQ and of the PLQ are similar. ” Francoise David concluded her speech by saying that it hoped to be invited to the debate of the chiefs to his manner, in spite of the refusal of the consortium and the political parties.
The Solidaire spokesperson of Quebec Amir Khadir (Draper) for its part pointed out that sovereignty is in the middle of the Solidaire project. “As Richard Desjardins said it very recently, Solidaire Quebec is the only party with still speaking about sovereignty. And we will continue to speak it about it does not matter the economic situation, it does not matter where the wind turns. “As many Quebec we believe that sovereignty must be associated with a project removing for Quebec. The Québécois Party proposes to us since too a long time an emptied sovereignty of its substance. Does Solidaire Quebec propose with the Inhabitants of Quebec to give again a direction with sovereignty because after all, which sovereignty wants to say if we are unable to control our economy? What wants to say sovereignty if we are unable to protect our environment and our employment? ”
15 June 2009
L'Affaire Bloodshot Stew
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique-quebecoise/200906/15/01-875808-fete-nationale-st-pierre-fustige-les-souverainistes-radicaux.php
L'exclusion de deux formations musicales anglo-montréalaises d'un spectacle de la Fête nationale a été dénoncée sans réserve lundi par les libéraux et les péquistes.
La ministre de la Culture, Christine St-Pierre, a pointé du doigt la frange «intolérante» du mouvement souverainiste tandis que le porte-parole de l'opposition officielle en matière de langue, Pierre Curzi, a appelé les responsables à faire marche arrière.
M. Curzi et Mme St-Pierre s'opposent à la décision de l'Association culturelle Louis-Hébert d'exiger le retrait des groupes Bloodshot Bill et Lake of Stew du spectacle alternatif «L'Autre St-Jean», qui aura lieu le 23 juin à Montréal ...The concert is called "L'Autre St-Jean (not L'Autre Fete nationale), but then the holiday has both names even officially.
Reality check: French is not the only official language in Quebec, but the only official one of the provincial government. Meanwhile, I pay my Quebec taxes, licences, etc., in English.
So will the anglos acts finally "accepted", sing in French only? Or both French and English? English only would be true liberty. But also irrelevant to a fake "national" holiday, if the nation has only one official language.
Also, there is a regulation that official St-Jean festivities must be conducted in French.
Also, there is a regulation that official St-Jean festivities must be conducted in French.
The Louis-Hébert association – which has ties to the sovereignist Société St. Jean Baptiste AND the JPQ, had insisted all acts be in French.
However, the organization distanced itself from statements by an association vice-president who first set off the controversy.
Instead, the association said yesterday that its concern about the participation of the anglophone artists is because of a rumoured protest at the event and worry the city would cancel it. (They didn't.)
Still, to assuage irate nationalists, spokesperson Julien Larocque-Dupont (also of the JPQ) reiterated the English artists' small part, saying "there's no question here of a bilingual show." (News flash: if the show is presented in both French and English, it is bilingual.)The other artists on the bill, even the franco and sovereignist ones, support the anglos being there.
However, the organization distanced itself from statements by an association vice-president who first set off the controversy.
Instead, the association said yesterday that its concern about the participation of the anglophone artists is because of a rumoured protest at the event and worry the city would cancel it. (They didn't.)
Still, to assuage irate nationalists, spokesperson Julien Larocque-Dupont (also of the JPQ) reiterated the English artists' small part, saying "there's no question here of a bilingual show." (News flash: if the show is presented in both French and English, it is bilingual.)The other artists on the bill, even the franco and sovereignist ones, support the anglos being there.
The festivities are supported by tax dollars (provincial, and ultimately federal transfers).
«Ils sont québécois et on les accepte comme québécois, a-t-il indiqué. On n'a absolument rien contre le fait qu'ils chantent en anglais. Mais la Fête nationale, ça se passe en français.»
Une réunion tenue vendredi n'a pas permis de trouver un compromis. Pour [Mathieu Bouthillier], c'est donc officiel : les Anglos ne seront pas de la fête. «Pour nous, le dossier est clos», a-t-il affirmé.
Premature categorical statement:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2009/16/c7284.html
"Il y a des débats qui sont difficiles au Québec, voire même "divisifs". Cela ne veut pas dire que nous devons faire l'économie de ces débats, mais cela signifie que nous devons les faire comme il se doit. Pour l'heure, nous voulons que cette 175e édition souligne ce qui nous unit et nous demandons à tous de respecter cette volonté. Pour nous, l'incident est clos", ajoutent les représentants du Mouvement national des Québécoises et Québécois, du Comité de la Fête nationale à Montréal, de l'Association culturelle Louis-Hébert et de C4 Productions.
L'autre candidate à la mairie, Louise Harel, a pris ses distances face aux groupes qui réclamaient le départ de Lake of Stew et Bloodshot Bill. Elle estime que la Fête nationale devrait être celle de «tous les Québécois».
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