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  1. ET…excellent essay on Quebec leaving,but you left out one thing. They also only get the land that was theirs originally, i.e. the SE shore of the St. Lawerence from Quebec City to Isle Royal. The rest,well tough titty. The Indians and the ROC owns it.

  2. Also, ET and Justthinkin, I think all agreements signed with the PROVINCE of Quebec should be made null and void when they become the COUNTRY of Quebec…so that cozy electricity deal they made with NFLD / LAB would be gone!
    And no more Prime Ministers from Quebec!
    Woo Hoo!
    C’mon everybody, all together now…Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out! Kick them out!
    Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye!

  3. just thinking – yes, I agree; they only get the original land base at the time of ‘Wolfe-Montcalm’.
    I’ve found it hilarious to hear people in Quebec, and quebecois separatiste is one of them, state with absolute certainty, that the natives have ‘no right’ to separate from Quebec. Heh.
    If Quebec assumes the right to separate from the rest of Canada, then, the natives, who lived and worked that land long before any Europeans came, have the same right to separate.
    Land bases are, after all, political entities, which is to say, they are ‘human constructs’. There’s no such thing as a land which belongs, by some a priori, essentialist, almost biological property, to a particular ethnic group, religious group. Many Quebecers, however, view the land as an ‘essentialist, biological property’ of The Quebec people. That’s actually a fascist idea, that sense of the land as essentially linked to a particular people…
    But, if Quebec wants to leave, I myself have no problem with such an act. After all, we cannot conclude that Quebec offers much to the ROC. We, on the other hand, support it via industrial subsidies (and yes, the milk quota is one of them), via federal funding of many of their programs, federal assistance in so much of their infrastructure (roads, trains); and, bilingualism has meant an enormous francophone bureaucracy (eg, Hull-Montreal-Ottawa).
    If it left, politically and economically, it would have to form its own market-driven economy, rather than loafing on the couch of a subsidized and protected economy. So, for example, rather than filing a lawsuit against Wal-Mart for refusing to put in a store in a Quebec town, where all the locals could work – Quebec would have to develop its own Wal-Mart style stores.
    It would have to work hard to attract competitive international business, it wouldn’t be able to rely on federal subsidies that enable it to lower its prices; it would have to stand on its own.
    I see no fiscal or political loss to the ROC with such a move; after all – it would still be there, and I’m sure Montreal and Quebec would still welcome the ROC as tourists! Indeed, it would very much want to attract tourism!
    So, I’m against keeping a population that don’t want to remain in a federation. Unhappily for such as quebecois separatiste (+atheist), the majority of Quebecers still don’t want to leave. And that means – we, in the ROC, still continue to subsidize them. And put up with the political and economic costs of bilingualism…remember, Quebec refuses bilingualism.

  4. ET:
    I’m not an organizer of the protests and does not know any of the organizers, so am unable to answer your questions about the specifics of the protests. I side with the Serbs because I do not want to see Mohammedans get away with their demographic Jihad to grab land. Read this post on the Mohammedans’ morbid interest in Canadian demographics.

  5. spread the news.
    I think you could answer some of my questions, for example, why would the Serbs want to retain a population that doesn’t want to remain in a federation?
    And, how do riots show that the Serbs want the people of Kosovoa to remain in the federation?
    I think you can answer those two questions.
    Why do you call them ‘Mohammedans’? Do you mean Muslims?
    When you refer to their ‘demographic jihad to grab land’, does this mean that you consider that the Serbs have the ‘inherent right’ to the land of Kosovo?
    With regard to your link, this is not a ‘morbid interest’. Do you know what ‘morbid’ means? It means ‘diseased’ or ‘gloomy’. That’s a strange adjective to use. Could you explain why you are using it?
    As for a religious or other ethnic group being interested in Canadian demographics, I assure you, that such an interest is shown by ALL ethnic groups – and other ‘groups’ as well. After all, Canada has an Official Policy of Multiculturalism; it actually provides financial benefits and funding for ethnic groups. So, an ethnic group would want to know the demographics of an area; then, it could set up a school and community centre, based on that population size, and apply for a gov’t grant.
    I think that you could answer the above questions, even though you are not a member of the march’s organizing committee.

  6. As a meteorologist, I belong to a lot of weather discussion email lists. On the list today came a link to surfacestations.org, which Kate has been mentioning for a LONG time, pointing out the obvious deficiencies in the input into the forecasts of the future climate. Someone on one of the lists (obviously a moonbat) said:
    “What bugs me is that he insinuates that because there’s a few weather stations placed in bad positions this invalidates all the entire global warming evidence. Do people not understand stats at all?
    And it’s from a conservative site… Ok, ok, I’m staying away from politics.”
    To which I responded (to the whole list):
    “What bugs me is the insinuation that the input from a few bad stations (actually about 75% of those surveyed thus far, and not even close to all of them have been surveyed) has no effect on the GCMs used and which are taken as gospel, and that “the science is settled”. Do people not understand finite differencing to partial differentials, error propagation, damping schemes and their degradation of the approximations derived therefrom, the limitations of computer models and the fundamentally skeptical nature of science at all?”
    It has come to my attention that I’m one of very few conservatives on the list. There are quite a few meteorologists on the list, too. Let’s see how this works out–whether the scientists actually argue sound science.

  7. Kevink,
    All over MSNBC eh? OK, guess they didn*t make it into our 85 plus Shaw cable channels here on the Pacific shores.
    For a small refinery fire, that*s one heck of a group of blazing blackness the Big Springs Herald gives us.
    http://www.bigspringherald.com/
    Gas here on Vancouver Island is $1.14 L today Feb 21/08.
    ========================
    3 Human feet belonging to three different persons found washed up on the beach off gulf Islands not very far from Saltspring Island just up from Victoria BC.
    DNA testing underway. What a nasty business that is likely to be.
    BOUR3 at 12:37 has a link above. = TG

  10. Re Kosovo: The issue with Kosovo, and the reason that the rest of the world should be concerned with the precedent, is the fact that 50 years ago the area was 90% Serbian and 10% Albanian. now those figures have been reversed. I don’t know the reason for that. It probably has a lot to do with the fact that communist Albania was an even bigger dump than communist Yugoslavia. If a change in ethnic makeup there can change who a territory belongs to, what makes anywhere else in the western world any different. If everyone in Yorkshire is Pakistani, why shouldn’t Yorkshire become part of Pakistan? Why shouldn’t the Lower Mainland become part of China? Why shouldn’t Paris become part of Algeria? This can, and probably will happen. If anyone can tell me why it can’t I’d love to here what you think.

  11. I just watched a little bit of incredibly twisted logic on CTV. A pedophile has been released into the Toronto area after serving his sentence. He is deemed to be at a high risk to re-offend. But,the neighbourhood where he will be living is not being named because that would give the rest of the city a false sense of security. WTF ????

  12. minuteman – at one time, the USA didn’t exist; at one time, Canada didn’t exist. At one time, Russia existed; then became the Soviet Union; then became Russia.
    Geographic areas are one thing. Defining them politically is a human construct, and this definition can change. It depends on the people who live there.

  13. Why is Russia defending the Serbs?
    KosovoIsSerbia.com = KievisRussia.com
    Holy sites and cradles of nations to ethnic groups who don’t live there anymore.
    Why does Putin want to nuke Kiev as Ukraine gets closer to the West?
    Mohammedans who have uncovered single women dancing with unrelated men while drinking champagne and locally brewed beer.

  15. South Russia = Ukraine
    South Serbia, West Bulgaria, Northern Greece = Macedonia
    Deny that the majority population of a territory is different and repeat it often, then the differences might disappear.

  16. Nope, maple stump/AQS, your comment is irrelevant (as well as fallacious, ie, ad hominem isn’t an argument).
    The FACTS remain, and you, who want Quebec separatism, (and many of us in the ROC support your wishes)..have to deal with FACTS.
    1) Your ridiculously low university tuition fees means that the taxpayers of the ROC support your universities. Support your students. Support all those non-Canadian students from France, Belgium, Algeria etc, who are charged the same low tuition as Quebec students. While Canadian students (that’s in the same country as Quebec)are charged almost twice as much! When/If you separate, you’ll have to deal with those costs, because we in the ROC, won’t be paying them.
    2)All the other subsidies paid for by the ROC, such as that special dairy allotment, the subsidies to businesses, the many federal offices in Quebec. The repairs to roads, airports, etc etc.
    3)As noted, we wish you the best in your goal. It will certainly be economically much better for the ROC. Politically, as well, we won’t have to always ensure that ‘someone on the committee, research team, board, management..etc’ is from Quebec.
    Sure, we’d be more than willing to establish strong economic ties with the Sovereign Quebec Nation. But, it will be for VALUE produced by Quebec. Not subsidies, not special deals, not make-work projects.
    Cheers and best wishes for a ‘Free Quebec’ (bound as it is in the repressive connections of federal subsidies and largesse). Heh.

  17. wouldnt bother me one bit if the big pink bit at the top of the map had a splotch of green in the middle. east canada canada could be renamed as Bangthedish as Danny “whine for wine” williams has so many times illustrated. bang the dish and ask for more.

  18. Actually ET, my comment is relevant. I wasn’t trying to debate you or criticize your text. On the whole, I agree with you, with some exceptions of course. But overall, your comments on the situation in Quebec are pretty well bang on. No, what irks me about your situation is that you do not consider it relevant to your argument. Well it is. In the same way that a politician who denounces homosexuality, but has a gay lover. In the way that a letter to the editor that is signed by an individual who is actually a paid insider. Omitting relevant facts is intellectual dishonesty. You are just like a member of the Bloc Quebecois that is only too pleased to cash the paycheck and the pension of the institution he wishes to leave. Fact: You are part and parcel of the group that you denounce and from which you profit. You denounce the union that got you that hefty paycheck and pension package. You denigrate the university system under which you flourished. Just come out and say it’s been profitable for you.
    And BTW, you don’t know me from Adam. I’m not a separatist. For someone who insists on facts, you’re pretty quick to make them up to bolster your point.

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