Why should Canada separate from Quebec

Why does Quebec need Canada?
How much of its trade is "foreign" (i.e., out or province)?
How many bilinguals have they?

The Gerald Tremblay Record

- supported the megacity after campaigning (and winning) against it

- runs a sleazy administration; 6 criminal probes in as many months

- has seen services (sidewalk de-icing) run down

- tried to change the name of Park Avenue to Robert Bourassa without consultation

- runs most things from City Hall in camera

- rigged the Agglom Council in his favor by handpicking the members

- interferes with press freedom (will not answer La Presse, over a story that he himself originated)

Franco sovereignists

There is now egg on their faces but don't think for a moment that they have learned a lesson. This is but one simple victory for common sense in a long-standing kerfuffle rife with insanity.

http://napoleon.fastpuppy.com/blog.php

franco artistes

The outpouring of shame, followed by outrage, ridicule and then acceptance of the anglos was heart-warming. The language zealots looked downright silly and some backtracked as fast as they could when they realised that other proud nationalist artists publicly disagreed with their myopic stance.

http://napoleon.fastpuppy.com/blog.php

"A hootenanny in any language"

Quebec culture minister Christine St. Pierre said this demonstrates that “there are people that are very intolerant and would prefer that we live in some sort of bubble.”

http://napoleon.fastpuppy.com/blog.php

Franco press

More often than not, slights against anglos go woefully unnoticed in Quebec's French media. A front-page humiliation in the English press, if we are allowed to use that term, might make a page-seven brief in La Presse. Or page 21 in Le Journal de Montréal — if at all.

http://napoleon.fastpuppy.com/blog.php

Is the Bloc loss a sign of things to come in Quebec?

Is the Bloc loss a sign of things to come in Quebec?

"The province of Quebec has no opinions, it has only sentiments," said Sir Wilfrid Laurier at the turn of the last century.
Now it has mood swings, like an adolescent with ADHD. Only four years after impulsively swinging to the right with Action democratique du Quebec in the 2007 provincial election, it has swung just as hard to the left with the New Democrats.

Quebec VoteCompass

Agree? Disagree? Explain:

'The Conseil supérieur de la langue française recommends that free choice be maintained for entry into Quebec's CEGEPs, allowing students graduating from French high schools to continue enrolling, if they wish, in English CEGEPs.'

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Conseil+advises+free+choice+CEGEP+entry/4565395/story.html#ixzz1Ilxf8sPq

'[The] working language in this province should be the one spoken by over 80% of the population'

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pierre-beaudet/2011/04/harper-can-lose-out-quebec

'The agreement to fund new Newfoundland's hydro power lines is seen as anti-Quebec, because similar facilities in this province have not been subsidized in the past by Ottawa'

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pierre-beaudet/2011/04/harper-can-lose-out-quebec

Macpherson: Charge of Quebec-bashing handy tool for the intellectually lazy

Charge of Quebec-bashing handy tool for the intellectually lazy

Maybe it's because Jean Charest knows that a lot of Quebecers blame him rather than Maclean's for the magazine's cover story calling Quebec "the most corrupt province in Canada."
But his letter to the magazine demanding an apology is a halfhearted gesture.
His office didn't even mention the letter until yesterday, three days after it was sent, and then only when journalists asked whether one had been sent.

Macpherson: What is (and is not) Quebec Bashing

Quebec-Born Filmmaker of Color Says Quebec Cinema Ignores Minorities, Faces Backlash | Epress News

When Marco Fortier wrote last month in his blog on the popular news site ruefrontenac. com that Quebecers are rude, it was followed by a mostly civil discussion in the blog’s comments section, writes Don Macpherson in Canada’s The Montreal Gazette.

Nobody dashed off a post angrily suggesting that Fortier move away if he didn’t like it here.

That’s because Fortier had kept it in the family. He had satisfied three unofficial conditions for exercising his freedom to express public criticism of Quebecers.

He had done so in French, and to a French-speaking audience. And most important, as a French-speaking Quebecer, he is a member of the family himself.