The art of political nonsense is always pushed to new heights in Quebec. A thoroughly socialist and unionized society, Quebec nationalists think with nothing but dead organs. They are, I suppose, nothing more than a collection of parochial pagan alchemists.
The insidious notion of demanding that a pro-sovereignty book - Parlons de Souveraineté å L'école (Speak of Sovereignty at School) using precarious history facts to espouse their political agenda is an affront to high civil discourse. Quebec is a place that lives partly in a surreal dream world. Sound economic and business models that remotely resemble American ideals are distrusted to ridiculous fervor here.
The real moral question is not the romantic demands of a people who forever consider themselves oppressed (nice work if you can get it) but whether they can still justify using tax dollars to pay for this sad sordid mess.
Once and for all it should be explained to Quebecers the true cost of running away from the Confederation using smoke and mirrors will be. Lay the cards out on the table and see where they stand. If the people buy it so be it.*
Quebec -as they wish to believe- is not an intellectual sophisticated place. It's completely unhinged when it comes to this issue. Quebec has far more serious issues to attend to. At least Alberta - with no less of an excuse - has the cash to do so. When, if ever, will it all end?
The school system has no place for trash history. Leave that work to the self-serving impostors of contemporary society (where the art and discipline of history is under attack) via the likes of Michael Moore and Dan Brown.
*The debate continues as to whether the separatist threat will ever succeed. One the one hand demographics (and by extension the larger global geo-political landscape) seem to be pointing to an inevitable dissolution of Canada. Yet, many French-Canadians are growing resltess over the dabte as they are slowly emerging from the Quiet Revolution with a sense that they are once again being short-changed by their masters - first it was the Church and now it is their leaders. Why do Quebecois leaders send their children to American institutions to learn or seek private care in the U.S. when French Quebecers themselves are not allowed to? It's a question circulating and answers will be demanded. It can be presented that French-Quebecers share more in common with certain American values than they care to acknowledge.
Good article.
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