Iggy and Quebec
Good bye to both of you.
Labels: Iggy, Michael Ignatieff, Quebec
posted by Louise at 7:10 am
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
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6 Comments:
I don't think our mutual friend from BC agrees but I think Canada would be far better off without Quebec. From everything I've read, the ROC is much less leftist and without Quebec's hard left pull on Parliament and the national fabric, would be much better off. IMO, this is what indirectly majorly contributes to Western Canada's sense of alienation from Canada.
At the least, if there's another resurgent separatist movement, the ROC should simply reply goodbye and here's your share of the national debt.
Yup. I never understood why so many people in "English" Canada rallied to keep Quebec in Confederation. I've always supported Quebec's aspirations to be an independent nation. It was the "Association" part of "Sovereignty and Association" that I didn't find favour with. Seems they wanted the best of both worlds.
I also agree that Western alienation is, in large part, a response to the endless squabbles and kowtowing that goes on between Ontario and Quebec. The elitist snobbery in Toronto toward Westerners is secondary, as far as I'm concerned, but it also contributes.
I have one word for QuebecGO..
The words of Oliver Cromwell, dismissing the Long Parliament, seem apropos of Canada vis a vis Quebec:
"You have sat too long for any good you have done. Depart, I say; and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!"
About the ROC being less leftist, I'm not so sure about that. Manitoba and BC seem to wobble back and forth between conservative (not necessarily calling themselves Conservative or even Progressive Conservative) and dipper governments. And Saskatchewan!! Cripes!! The birthplace of the NDP and a whole slate of left leaning political movements prior to that. The birthplace of medicare. As far as I know, the only province to nationalize some of its primary industry, creating a pall that hung over our heads for decades.
Alberta has been the only province to remain more or less conservative throughout all this time and, if the election there earlier this week is any indication, they are drifting toward the "progressive" end of the PC movement.
Ontario used to be very staid and conservative, but not so much today.
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