I don’t have much interest in Quebec politics, but I know others do. You can play pundit in the comments.
12 Replies to “Boisclar Walks Away”
If Duceppe was smart (there’s one hanging over the plate waiting to be hit out of the park if ever there was one) he won’t jump to the PC. Further, he should make the BQ a national party. I guarantee if they ran in the next election on taking Quebec out of Canada, they’d get a majority. I’d vote BQ if it got Quebec off my teat.
Not the least surprised at his departure but it is much faster than many of us expected though.
I heard that Duceppe topped up his M.P. pension plan last week knowing that he was about to jump.
Kubeckkers, over time, have come to realize that separation is silly and only has value as a threat from time to time.
Boisclaire, who, with his record of snorting coke strings and his shady buddies from the hood, is the last nail in that coffin.
How the dimwit crowd could have ever overlooked his baggage will be a miracle to ponder in Canadian politics. = TG
It is an interesting scenario. I think Quebec has realized that it has little to gain from genuine separation and that separation is primarily useful as a strategic threat to the ROC and to the gov’t, to keep pumping privileges and political power into Quebec. These privileges and power are actually more than Quebec could obtain on its own. It is a travesty of our constitution and charter that we have set up our country within such a structure.
Now, will Duceppe want to continue the farce?
Or, will Dumont’s vision of federation, which is more akin to Harper’s decentralized federation, become the dominant ideology? As well, Dumont has a different vision of Quebec than the PQ and the Bloc. They view Quebec as a socialist welfare state – and are quite insistent that the funding for this comfort should come from the ROC.
Dumont has seemingly accepted Bouchard’s excellent analysis of 2005, which exorted Quebecers to ‘wake up’ and move out of this dependent welfare statism and ‘start to work’. Rather similar to Sarkozy’s view in France.
So, considering that both the Bloc and the PQ are rigged to a completely out-of-date agenda – are they under the impression that all it takes to rejuvenate this agenda is a new leader?
Wouldn’t it be great if the Bloc were to disappear? Unfortunately, the Bloc MPs are hooked on their personal benefits from the ROC – their salaries and above all, their pensions. So, they’ll probably continue as a party, covering themselves with their separatiste rhetoric, while the real agenda – is their salaries and pensions.
Here’s a man who is a signpost of all things modern–he is progressive, homosexual, and very liberal; but the man lacks leadership qualities, the things most voters care about.
To all you progressives out there, next time, extol the virtues of leadership and ability, not of private matters of sexual preference and liberalism.
somedays CBCpravda can even go to understatement.instead of saying openly mocked the leaders of this and other nations -they say this……
As Quebec’s first openly gay political leader, Boisclair also deflected intense criticism in December 2006 after he participated in a television parody of Brokeback Mountain, a film about homosexual cowboys
Quebec politics? They have politics there? I thought that they Quebec selected its government using a series of jousts (not that it’s terribly different here in California).
Let’s go easy on the guy – who’s got time for concentrating on politics when there are smooth young boys bearing cocaine about?
Wonder if Sheila is interested in going for the leadership. Maybe Belinda could win that one.
Funny how losers spend the rest of their days trying to hurt the people that refused to vote for them. Maybe Bosclair will run for leadership of the Bloc.
If Duceppe was smart (there’s one hanging over the plate waiting to be hit out of the park if ever there was one) he won’t jump to the PC. Further, he should make the BQ a national party. I guarantee if they ran in the next election on taking Quebec out of Canada, they’d get a majority. I’d vote BQ if it got Quebec off my teat.
Wow, that was quick.
Faster than you can say jihad http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070508/terror_arrests_070508/20070508?hub=TopStories
“dignified” and “tears sprang to his eyes”
hasnt been this nice of article in cbcpravda since svend got pinched pinching the ring.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2007/05/08/qc-boisclair0508.html
no mention of the undignified behaviour on the lead up.
Not the least surprised at his departure but it is much faster than many of us expected though.
I heard that Duceppe topped up his M.P. pension plan last week knowing that he was about to jump.
Kubeckkers, over time, have come to realize that separation is silly and only has value as a threat from time to time.
Boisclaire, who, with his record of snorting coke strings and his shady buddies from the hood, is the last nail in that coffin.
How the dimwit crowd could have ever overlooked his baggage will be a miracle to ponder in Canadian politics. = TG
It is an interesting scenario. I think Quebec has realized that it has little to gain from genuine separation and that separation is primarily useful as a strategic threat to the ROC and to the gov’t, to keep pumping privileges and political power into Quebec. These privileges and power are actually more than Quebec could obtain on its own. It is a travesty of our constitution and charter that we have set up our country within such a structure.
Now, will Duceppe want to continue the farce?
Or, will Dumont’s vision of federation, which is more akin to Harper’s decentralized federation, become the dominant ideology? As well, Dumont has a different vision of Quebec than the PQ and the Bloc. They view Quebec as a socialist welfare state – and are quite insistent that the funding for this comfort should come from the ROC.
Dumont has seemingly accepted Bouchard’s excellent analysis of 2005, which exorted Quebecers to ‘wake up’ and move out of this dependent welfare statism and ‘start to work’. Rather similar to Sarkozy’s view in France.
So, considering that both the Bloc and the PQ are rigged to a completely out-of-date agenda – are they under the impression that all it takes to rejuvenate this agenda is a new leader?
Wouldn’t it be great if the Bloc were to disappear? Unfortunately, the Bloc MPs are hooked on their personal benefits from the ROC – their salaries and above all, their pensions. So, they’ll probably continue as a party, covering themselves with their separatiste rhetoric, while the real agenda – is their salaries and pensions.
Here’s a man who is a signpost of all things modern–he is progressive, homosexual, and very liberal; but the man lacks leadership qualities, the things most voters care about.
To all you progressives out there, next time, extol the virtues of leadership and ability, not of private matters of sexual preference and liberalism.
somedays CBCpravda can even go to understatement.instead of saying openly mocked the leaders of this and other nations -they say this……
As Quebec’s first openly gay political leader, Boisclair also deflected intense criticism in December 2006 after he participated in a television parody of Brokeback Mountain, a film about homosexual cowboys
Quebec politics? They have politics there? I thought that they Quebec selected its government using a series of jousts (not that it’s terribly different here in California).
Let’s go easy on the guy – who’s got time for concentrating on politics when there are smooth young boys bearing cocaine about?
Wonder if Sheila is interested in going for the leadership. Maybe Belinda could win that one.
Funny how losers spend the rest of their days trying to hurt the people that refused to vote for them. Maybe Bosclair will run for leadership of the Bloc.