What a funny issue
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Just less than 10 post to reach 1600 post way to go in order to beat that old topic "What do you know about the Dutch"
Keep it up
Keep it up
Well, first off, let me assure you, there will be no continental rupture. That's just uh, not how reality works. As for the army part, there's two ways to disprove that, you can do it mathematically and ideologically. Mathematically, Canada has more money and more people then Québec, and you know, actually has tanks, planes, boats, etc. Québec doesn't. But you could say "But they could build up an army!" That's where the ideological argument comes in. The Québécois are pacifist. Sure there's been the occasional revolt, the Patriotes Rebellion being the most important one and there was the FLQ, but that was justified as self-defence, and the latter was particularly frowned upon. But Québec has strongly opposed practically every, if not all, wars. There was a debate recently, should a sovereign Québec have a genuine army or a security force? The Bloc Québécois unanimously adopted to have an army, but it would be a very thin army, and it would have a role of international peacekeeping and reconstruction. Many Québécois think army = people to help you out in disasters, and nothing more. So there will be no Québec tanks flooding in Ottawa from the Gatineau bridge.
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
Québec Sovereignty Myth #1:
"The seperatists want to destroy Canada!"
While some sovereigntist hardliners might dream up particularly violent scenarios where the House of Commons is in flame and a group of guerilla Québécois are shouting "'THAT'S FOR BURNING DOWN OUR PARLIAMENT IN 1849!" the sovereigntists do not want to destroy Canada. In fact, many of them actually like Canada, but insist that it's not their country, that it is the English Canadians'.
And even if they wanted, they couldn't. Think about it, how would Québec go about destroying Canada? Would a majority "Yes" vote on a referendum spontaneously give Québec a powerful army and a nuclear bomb to lob on Toronto? Or, wait, I know, if Québec seperates, the continent will be torn apart as Québec tears itself away from North America to go off and float in the Atlantic Ocean.
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
"The seperatists want to destroy Canada!"
While some sovereigntist hardliners might dream up particularly violent scenarios where the House of Commons is in flame and a group of guerilla Québécois are shouting "'THAT'S FOR BURNING DOWN OUR PARLIAMENT IN 1849!" the sovereigntists do not want to destroy Canada. In fact, many of them actually like Canada, but insist that it's not their country, that it is the English Canadians'.
And even if they wanted, they couldn't. Think about it, how would Québec go about destroying Canada? Would a majority "Yes" vote on a referendum spontaneously give Québec a powerful army and a nuclear bomb to lob on Toronto? Or, wait, I know, if Québec seperates, the continent will be torn apart as Québec tears itself away from North America to go off and float in the Atlantic Ocean.
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
We've determined that Canada will not be physically harmed by Québec's independence. Some say that it would be Canada's identity that would be shattered forever.
I don't know if anybody noticed, but Canada's official policy is no longer biculturalism, it's multiculturalism. That means that Canada's identity is English and French, but also Chinese, Indian, First Nations, Arab, African, Greek, Jewish, so on, so forth. There's even going to be 1 million French Canadians remaining in Canada after Québec's seperation. Sure Canada might no longer be officially bilingual, but the Canada of the 21st century will be multilingual, as you can see from initiatives like Service Canada, which offers their service in 12 languages, or like how in Vancouver you can take your car license test in English, French, Punjabi and Mandarin. There's also very little people outside of Québec else then the francophone communities like the Acadians, the Métis, the Franco-Ontarians and so forth, that speak both French and English. Some English Canadians can, and others can speak a little bit, much like how the francophones can usually speak a bit of Spanish by having a course or two in it at school and picking up some words here and there. But English Canadians do not define themselves as bilinguals. So de facto, there is no such thing as a bicultural Canadian identity, you're either English or French, you're not both unless you're the rare exception (something a bit like me.) Whether Québec is there or not, it changes nothing to your personal identity. It certainly changes the landscape, but at the end of the day, if you live in Canada, you'll still be Canadian, with or without Québec.
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
I don't know if anybody noticed, but Canada's official policy is no longer biculturalism, it's multiculturalism. That means that Canada's identity is English and French, but also Chinese, Indian, First Nations, Arab, African, Greek, Jewish, so on, so forth. There's even going to be 1 million French Canadians remaining in Canada after Québec's seperation. Sure Canada might no longer be officially bilingual, but the Canada of the 21st century will be multilingual, as you can see from initiatives like Service Canada, which offers their service in 12 languages, or like how in Vancouver you can take your car license test in English, French, Punjabi and Mandarin. There's also very little people outside of Québec else then the francophone communities like the Acadians, the Métis, the Franco-Ontarians and so forth, that speak both French and English. Some English Canadians can, and others can speak a little bit, much like how the francophones can usually speak a bit of Spanish by having a course or two in it at school and picking up some words here and there. But English Canadians do not define themselves as bilinguals. So de facto, there is no such thing as a bicultural Canadian identity, you're either English or French, you're not both unless you're the rare exception (something a bit like me.) Whether Québec is there or not, it changes nothing to your personal identity. It certainly changes the landscape, but at the end of the day, if you live in Canada, you'll still be Canadian, with or without Québec.
http://quietrevolution20.blogspot.com/
If Quebec does eventually separate, will the 1 million French outside of Quebec be worse off? -- i.e, will the importance of French in what remains of Canada be diminished?
<If Quebec does eventually separate, will the 1 million French outside of Quebec be worse off? -- i.e, will the importance of French in what remains of Canada be diminished? >
I wouldn't be concerned as leaders of both sides have agreed on one thing. To protect the minorities on both sides if separation does go ahead.
I wouldn't be concerned as leaders of both sides have agreed on one thing. To protect the minorities on both sides if separation does go ahead.
C'est tu sérieux ?
Y vas-tu y avoir une manif en ce 21 janvier prochain ?
En plein samedi Apres-Midi du Jour du Drapeau du Québec !!!
2 jours avant le jour J !!!
A cette meme place du canada ou s'est tenu le fameux ''love-in '' de 95 !!!
http://album.gourgane.com/JMS95GMP2005/JMSRV1995GMP_23
http://album.gourgane.com/JMS95GMP2005/JMSRV1995GMP_24
Je l,sais pas mais c'est ca que j'ai vu sur le forum du Conseil de la Souverainetée.
Cliquez sur l'image pour acceder au sujet; ''manif'' su le forum du Conseil...
Y vas-tu y avoir une manif en ce 21 janvier prochain ?
En plein samedi Apres-Midi du Jour du Drapeau du Québec !!!
2 jours avant le jour J !!!
A cette meme place du canada ou s'est tenu le fameux ''love-in '' de 95 !!!
http://album.gourgane.com/JMS95GMP2005/JMSRV1995GMP_23
http://album.gourgane.com/JMS95GMP2005/JMSRV1995GMP_24
Je l,sais pas mais c'est ca que j'ai vu sur le forum du Conseil de la Souverainetée.
Cliquez sur l'image pour acceder au sujet; ''manif'' su le forum du Conseil...
Le camp fédéraliste n'a pas gagné honorablement.
Il doit s'expliquer sur les gestes douteux lors du référendum de 1995.
Montréal, le mardi 10 janvier 2006 – « Les doutes que nous avons depuis 10 ans se confirment. Petit à petit, le rideau se lève à l’égard de gestes commis avec un financement occulte par le camp fédéraliste lors du référendum de 1995, dont Jean Charest en était le vice-président. Par son aveuglément fédéraliste, M. Charest s’est trouvé complice de ces gestes. Dès aujourd’hui, il doit les expliquer, les condamner et s’excuser auprès des Québécoises et des Québécois pour avoir contrevenu aux règles élémentaires d’une saine démocratie. » C’est en ces termes qu’a réagi le chef du Parti Québécois, André Boisclair, aux diverses informations contenues dans le livre Les secrets d’Option Canada de MM. Normand Lester et Robin Philpot.
http://partiquebecois.org/nv/index.php?pq=4&it=1081
Il doit s'expliquer sur les gestes douteux lors du référendum de 1995.
Montréal, le mardi 10 janvier 2006 – « Les doutes que nous avons depuis 10 ans se confirment. Petit à petit, le rideau se lève à l’égard de gestes commis avec un financement occulte par le camp fédéraliste lors du référendum de 1995, dont Jean Charest en était le vice-président. Par son aveuglément fédéraliste, M. Charest s’est trouvé complice de ces gestes. Dès aujourd’hui, il doit les expliquer, les condamner et s’excuser auprès des Québécoises et des Québécois pour avoir contrevenu aux règles élémentaires d’une saine démocratie. » C’est en ces termes qu’a réagi le chef du Parti Québécois, André Boisclair, aux diverses informations contenues dans le livre Les secrets d’Option Canada de MM. Normand Lester et Robin Philpot.
http://partiquebecois.org/nv/index.php?pq=4&it=1081