Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ooooh!! Look What Was Happening in Canada...

...while I wasn't watching:

Give Quebec $5 billion or we vote against the budget

Au revoir La Belle Provence. Au revoir.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

How long are Canadians of the ROC going to put up with this Quebec shakedown racket. (Mark Steyn's descriptive words, but I personally agree with them.)

January 27, 2011 10:06 am  
Blogger Louise said...

We should have fixed this problem years ago. (Heavy sigh) Sadly, Canadian politics revolves around Ontario and Quebec, where the votes are.

Western Canada would do just fine if Canada broke up. I'm not sure how the east coast would fare. Maybe they could join the US. Ontario would have a hissy fit, and that's about it, which would make we Westerners chuckle.

What would the reaction be in the US? No invasions, please. Perhaps a few of you could join us tho.

January 27, 2011 10:35 am  
Blogger Dave in Pa. said...

IMO, a Canada without Quebec but with everyone/all territory otherwise would get along just fine.

How Quebec would do, having to pay it's own bills and not being able to suck at the federal teat, is another question. THAT is why the ROC ought to call Quebec's bluff.

(No invasions, except by tourists, contemplated. :-)

January 27, 2011 10:40 am  
Blogger Louise said...

Watching Quebec have to pay it's own bills would be such exquisite entertainment. That alone would be almost worth the hassle of splitting up.

Although I have relatives in Ontario, I don't feel particularly connected to that part of the country, either. Kissing Toronto goodbye would in and of itself be very satisfying. In my dreams I see a massive migration of conservative types from Ontario heading West and a corresponding horde of lefties leaving the West, heading in the other direction. Sorta like a mid-course correction. After losing all its brains and taking on all that dreck, poor Ontario would go down the tube almost overnight.

I would imagine the shock waves sent round the world would also be quite entertaining. Canada (via Ontario) has always projected itself as so saintly and holier than anyone and everything else in the world, especially the Great Satan.

We've invested so much time and cash in building up institutions whose primary purpose is to keep us all together, like the CBC, it would be a great relief to finally let all that non-sense go and let the chips fall where they may.

Oooh, I'm in a stinking mood. It feels good.

January 27, 2011 11:17 am  

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