Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Why?

Why would the CBC ask Nick Bergamini for an interview only if it would be bookended by a "representative from the other side"? What would possess a news agency- state-owned or otherwise- to employ someone to excuse or explain an attack with a machete?


Why would Gilles Duceppe say something like this:

"I would say that Newfoundland was once a nation . . . so, it's different from Alberta, but it's your decision," he said. "I don't want to talk about what you have to decide. It's your own decision."

Mr. Duceppe, who is touring the country 20 years after the failure of the Meech Lake accord to gauge Canadians' views on the idea of Quebec becoming a sovereign nation, said that although they have differences, people in Alberta and New Brunswick will say they're Canadian, but in Quebec, people say: "We're Quebecers."

A rock can separate but not a financially prosperous province?


Why would a university offer a degree in crappy vampire novel studies when it is clear we need doctors, teachers and engineers?

6 comments:

Patrick Ross said...

Gilles Duceppe lives in a fantasy world.

He insists that Canadian confederation offers nothing to Quebec. Apparently not even the billions of dollars that the ROC (and particularly Alberta) pump into Quebbec to keep their social programs flush with cash despite their unsustainability.

RuralRite said...

SEPARATE PLEASE. Nice to know you but the parties over. Time to go back to France.

Osumashi Kinyobe said...

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, Patrick Ross.
We have no business propping up ANY special interest group or province. This is Canada. If we spend money, everyone should benefit, not the whining masses.
Furthermore, smaller government would be like a tonic for this old rock we call our home and native land. You know- the one that our sons command.
My points are stopping coddling Quebec and leave the anthem the way it is.

Osumashi Kinyobe said...

Ruralrite, the Quebecois aren't continental French but Canadian. There is nothing for them to go back to. I like Quebec and I get the feeling that, by and large, the people there are good. It is the Bloc Quebecois and various little upstarts who want to split this country. If Ottawa would call their bluff and demand that THEY, not Quebec, leave, we'd see the separatists' true mettle. Do they really think people will put them on welfare or that La Grande Pays France will welcome them? Fat chance!
Just my thoughts.

RuralRite said...

And who voted for the Bloc-heads?
The socialism mentality in Quebec is the same as France. Sure there are plenty of unselfish, good people in Quebec but not enough to get rid of the Bloc.

Osumashi Kinyobe said...

But the French in Quebec and in France are different. Perhaps the Quebecois don't realise it. They think that the continental French would welcome them as brothers. Nope.
The Bloc Quebecois should NOT be a party. No arguments there.
Perhaps someone should remind the Quebeckers how lucky there are to have the rest of Canada.