[DomQuebec]

Je vais quand même faire une courte traduction-résumé du texte de Galganov, parce qu'il pourrait y avoir une coupe de pas bilingues qui pourraient ne pas apprécier, des pas bilingues qui commandent du «same thing» dans les restos aux États-Unis!


Le Québec ne devrait pas, selon lui, avoir de statut spécial, c'est une province comme l'Ontario et l'Alberta.

Le Québec est en faillite et existe encore grâce aux autres provinces, telles l'Ontario et l'Alberta.

Selon lui, on accorde trop d'importance au Québec. Surtout qu'on est une bande de «losers» (perdants) xénophobes et que le Québec ne devrait pas exister.

Mais, ça serait une bonne chose si les Conservateurs feraient en sorte de faire sortir le Québec du Canada...

Tk, disons que son article n'est pas digne d'un intellectuel universitaire...




http://www.galganov.com/editorials.asp?ID=475



Even In A Federal Election - Why Is It Always About Quebec? Thursday, June 03, 2004

Canada By Howard Galganov


I went to the Conservative Party's Web Site to see what they had to say about their platform and candidates. And it struck me that they listed two campaign offices on their Home Page. One in Ottawa. The other in Quebec.

What gives?

If Harper is going to list Conservative Party offices, shouldn't he list them all? Or in his Party's mind, is Quebec equal to the rest of Canada?

Why does Quebec have its own identity and place of special importance on the Conservative Web Page and not Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta, since all of these Provinces are where the Conservatives are going to either win or lose the forthcoming election?

Stephen Harper will be lucky if his Conservatives come close in any Quebec ridings, even the West Island ridings with substantial English speaking populations.

So what's up with Quebec?

Quebec is a nearly bankrupt province existing on the largesse of the rest of Canada, especially from Ontario and Alberta. Yet; for the same "corrupt" reason that has haunted Canada since Confederation (1867), Quebec receives an incredibly disproportionate amount of national significance and political muscle.

The "corrupt" reason is power.

It has always been a given, that Quebec's large population will carry the day for the federal politician who is most generous to Quebec's many needs. But not this time.

The Bloc Québécois will probably win half or more of Quebec's 75 seats, with the Liberals winning the balance. The Conservatives and NDP will most probably be shut out.

Yet all of that said; the NDP are promising to declare Quebec to be a Nation if they are elected. And the Conservatives refer to Quebec as a part somehow outside of Canada, but still somehow a part thereof.

Every time I pause to wonder if I'm being too harsh on Quebec, I rethink the realities of how they've played the rest of Canada for the past 137 years, and then I see what is happening before my eyes in this election.

Even political Parties with absolutely no chance in hell of getting anything from Quebec are bending over backwards to appease and distribute a level of importance to this ethnocentric, xenophobic, loser province that should not exist.

To say that I am flabbergasted is an understatement of all proportions, and leaves me politically cold. Here we have Quebec Separatists sitting in Canada's federal House of Commons making decisions on the welfare of all of Canada.

And we have federalist Parties who are disliked by Quebec and Quebecers who want to give Quebec nationalists and Separatists more legitimacy.

I really expected much more from Stephen Harper and his New Conservatives.

The only redemption I can see for this behavior, is if the Conservatives are creating the groundwork to help Quebec more or less leave Canada.

But somehow, I don't think the rest of Canada is going to get that lucky.
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Un match de hockey sans bagarre, c'est comme un hiver sans neige.

[DomQuebec]

Une autre déclaration de ce Galganov:

«Si tous les Saoudiens disparaissent de ce monde, ils ne nous manqueront pas, surtout pas moi.»


«If all the Saudis disappeared from the face of the earth right now; they will not be missed. At least not by me. And the world would be a far better place for their departure.

Take away oil - their ONLY resource which they can't even get out of the ground themselves, and all you will have are nutcase Islamic fundamentalist Arabs eating dust, riding camels, and beating their woman in their macho society.»
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Un match de hockey sans bagarre, c'est comme un hiver sans neige.

[Stephen]

[Stephen]

[Past]

Écoutez, s'il faut aussi commencer à écouter ces imbéciles de Monsieur Je-Sais-tout pour parler de notre pays on a pas fini. Des gens comme lui y'en a partout dans le monde et ils ne sont jamais aimer, le seul vrai défaut de celui-là c'est qu'il a l'argent pour diffuser sa pensée... Alors soit on diffuse la notre plus fort, soit on l'empêche de le faire (Hacker... chasseur de prime... tueur en série... lachez vous lousse... )
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Past
-- Méfie-toi de tes pensées, elles sont le début de tes actions... (Proverbe chinois)

[Stephen]

[Necro99]

Ce n'est qu'un stupide fermier arriéré. Je suis surpris qu'il sais écrire.
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Partia ou Muerte! Vive le Québec libre!
Le Pouvoir politique sort du canon d'un Fusil - Mao Tse-Tung

[Past]

Ouin, mais quand on y pense, la liberté d'être Raciste et xenophone à pas apporter grand chose... J'suis d'accord pour dire qu'on doit davantage éduquer les conservateurs qui comprennent rien au Québec, mais la liberté d'expression c'est un droit acquis pour aider les gens, pas pour nuire à une minorité...

[GuillaumeC]

Sa, ctin croté, pis un n'osti d'croté rare, chk ben si y vient pas de l'Alberta, c'te connard la. Esti d'fermier qui connais rien, mais absolument rien.
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Comme l'a déja dit un grand homme dans des temps plus anciens : Vive le Québec libre !