Hashtag Of The Entitlement Class

Quebec version of the Bolsheviks storming the Winter Palace.

Quebec’s reality of whiny hippie wanna-be's looking for more free handouts.

Great Ad.

I think Charest is going to get it.

The Quebec protestors remind me of the horses-petards who were the Occupy gang. Claiming poverty in their Gucci shoes and $1500 cameras.

The pan banging is extremely unfortunate as it copies the Guatamalean protests back in the '80's.

The completely clueless look on her face as she struggles to figure out how to bang saucepan lids ...something most toddlers manage rather quickly...is priceless.

More like she fancies herself a Latin American rebel, Ken.

Of course, when the Chileans banged their cooking pots first it was decent Chilean housewifes who were furious that Salvador Allende had left nothing in the shops to feed their husbands and children with. Empty pots really do make the most noise.

We all know how that ended. Had this actually been Latin America, this nonsense would have been stopped months ago and the Olympic Stadium would have finally been put to a fair use---somewhere big enough to hold all of Quebec's traitors and communists until loyal Canadians were ready to punch them all their one way tickets back to their master.

Be careful what you wish for, Pauline. If all that happens is that all your own cooking pots wind up empty (because the young Quebeckers you betrayed come to their senses and leave for English Canada, and tell the likes of you where you can go with your Quebec government pension), you'll be a very lucky woman.

I don't understand. Does this mean she WANTS to put a lid on pot, or that she DOESN'T want to put a lid on pot?

Inquiring minds (what's left of them) need to know.

I guess it's true that some people never grow up.

Why are so many Canadian politicians such utter retards? She looks demented. And I mean that in a clinical sense.

Yeah I don't get this. I'm guessing it's an ad about senility and the need to grow up.

Quebec has certainly seemed out of sorts the last little while -- whether its dumping the Bloc and voting NDP or the "cassarole"/"student protest" thing, something's not quite right.

I'm of a mind that it all has to do with the dog and its tail: "Why does a dog wag its tail? Because the dog is smarter than its tail." (remember the beginning of Primary Colors?). In this context, it seems to me entirely explainable why Quebeckers "hate" Stephen Harper at the moment: it has nothing to do with with him not being warm and cuddly (as the Toronto papers seem to think); instead, I think it has to do with folks discovering that the dog actually has a brain, and they're not happy about it.

Which leads me to a couple of scenarios that I think might happen. "Separatism/sovereignism" might reassert itself in a big way (for the sole purpose of intimidating the rest of us back into letting the tail wag the dog; a tail without a dog doesn't really have the best future, as my Rottweiler, George, could attest if he could talk). Alternatively, in an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" moment, we might end up with 65 or so Conservative MPs from Quebec. Or, we might get some combination of the two.

I sense that Quebeckers are not really satisfied with either alternative, which accounts for their restiveness at the moment. Nevertheless, I'm not seeing the status quo holding -- Quebec wants back in and I'm reasonably sure that something dramatic along the lines suggested is going to happen.

But can she chew gum?

Aw, they've taken it down.

That's not a casserole, it's this mornings dose of makeup.

At least she doesn't bow.

David Southam @ 6:22:
I live in BC so have no real knowledge of Quebec other than what is told me by relatives. IMHO the only thing that keeps Quebec in Canada is their bottom line fear of going it alone economically. Much of the country's economy in the 60's & 70's & '80's was reconstructed to provide benefits for Quebec. Have a look at the ethnicity of the federal public service in Ottawa to have an rough idea.

Recent talk of Canada putting marketing boards on the international trade negociations truly scares the hell out of Quebec. Dairying in Canada is a direct subsidy to Quebec as they produce far in excess of their proportional share both in white milk and hughly so in the value added cheese etc.

The Canadian Space Agency was moved to Montreal decades ago without much national debate. This has resulted in billions of spinoffs. Let's not even talk about Bombardier and the hundreds of millions of low interest loans to sell their trains and airplanes. Much of which was quietly written off by friendly Libel governments.

Each year my small BC town is swamped with young Quebecers who come to pick fruit. What never fails to astound me is that their education system taught them how they have been net givers to the rest of the country and not vice versa. Not all but many have utter distain for the ROC.

ct 11:09a.m.:

Your comments, IMHO, are entirely valid.

I happen to like Quebec: it has been been an inimitable part of our past and, hopefully, our future. I only like a few countries, and I'm overwhelmingly glad I was born and live here, in no small measure because of what Quebec gives us.

Nevertheless, Quebec's current schtick is way too old. It needs new material in a big way (this, from an Ontarian!) The NDP is nothing more than a new half-way point, a stop-over, if you like: part (mostly) threat, part opportunity (at the end of the day, utterly implausible, in light of the new world Stephen Harper is creating).

The message that really resounds is the one in the CAPP commercial from the CEO of Prevost bus-makers: "I can see the oil-sands from 4,000 kilomtres away" (or words to that effect)