Dear Readers; Conrad Black, as usual, puts things back into ‘Perspective’ for us when the subject is the Quebec election. —————————————————————– The campaign is so lacklustre because all the parties are dancing around the Quebec problem without addressing it. Most Quebecers are not really interested in Canada, but aren’t especially hostile to it, dimly recognizing [...]
It seems that a growing number of Canadians are getting fed-up with the province of Quebec and specifically Quebec ‘sovereignists.’ With the separatist Parti Québécois leading the polls ahead of next month’s election, a Sun News/Abacus Data survey says that one in four in the rest of Canada are ready to kick la belle Provence [...]
A huge Montreal rally in support of Canadian unity on Oct. 27, 1995, three days before Quebecers voted in a referendum. A new poll suggests many Canadians outside of Quebec are now ambivalent about the idea of the province separating. John Ivison Back in 1969, when six members of a young comedy troupe were mulling [...]
<– Quebec’s Premier Jean Charest, left, with the Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois prior to the questions period at the National Assembly in Quebec City, Feb. 14. A new poll shows the PQ leading in the province at 30%, with the Liberals stable at 29% and the CAQ falling five points to 26%. Dear Readers; [...]
Dear Readers; Seems Justin Trudeau has one quality he inherited from his father …… he doesn’t know when to shut up! ——————————————————- Trudeau backpedals on separatism comments By Jessica Murphy, Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA – Liberal MP Justin Trudeau says he’s no separatist and vows to fight for Canada “with his very last breath.” The son [...]
Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country? That is the question Scotland’s separatist First Minister, Alex Salmond, proposes to put to Scottish voters in a referendum sometime in late 2014. Ten words, no subordinate clauses, its meaning incapable of confusion. Compare it with this little essay in obscurity: Do you agree that [...]