Shane Doan 3; Bloc MP Luc Malo 0

Hello Mr. Malo, my name is Shane Doan. I did my job today. I scored three goals for Canada. I gave back to Canadian taxpayers. Hey, did you know Matthew Lombardi is from Quebec? Probably not. Anyway, what did you do today besides consume a Federal pension? Hey, I hear unemployment is up to around 20% in the outlying regions of Quebec. Among other things. Man, they need you up there. Chop, chop.

PS: Sorry for writing in English.

Good show, Shane Doan.

--There's an awful lot of theorizing going on here based on little hard facts. And if there are they are twisting and distorting them out of context. The television show 110% is a French language sports talk show (110% pure garbage some will say) here in Quebec. I don't generally watch it because for the most part they know absolutely nothing about life and sports outside Quebec. But tonight the producers of the show pulled a good one.

They invited hard core separatist and film maker Pierre Felardeau*- equipped with bad teeth - to come on the show to talk about what they call "DOANGATE." He was dressed in his best street drifter apparel. I have no idea why they did this. It makes no sense. Shows you the type of people run the show. Anyhow, all night they complained about the injustices that are constantly hurled upon their pristine society and so on.

As they meandered in and out of surreal drivel, Mr. Felardeau took dead aim. He called Canada a country of "TROU DU CUL." I may have missed the slang spelling but this generally translates into a nation of assholes. Of course, not one of the panelists flinched.

Impressive stuff.

So will an apology be forthcoming from TQS? I suspect not. Should we call an inquiry into the matter? Yeah right. Wouldn't want to hurt and already wounded person. Where is Denis Coderre when you need that little sucker? We hear he has time on his hands.

Indeed, in their minds it is not slander if you are spewing insults in retaliation. Eye for an eye so to speak. A hockey player - who spoke to his team mate - hurt their feelings. In return, they insult an entire nation? They are no better.

Granted, TQS - like Le Journal de Montreal - generally panders to the lowest common denominator. This is why they invited men of low character on their show.

"Shane Doan est un raciste!" One of his close friends is Buffalo Sabres forward Daniel Briere - who is on record defending Doan. In fact, multiple people from the hockey establishment - French and English - have done so. At every turn, their assertions are refuted and yet they continue - being the French-language press - breathe new life into this. They honestly believe they have a story. To any observer removed from the historic French versus English thing, it becomes glaringly apparent that it is the French side of the equation that has not moved on. They remain stuck in 1837. They are good - as Jean Page obsesses about - to quip senselessly about les anglophones this and les anglophones that.

No one cares, Jean. Go chant gens du pays somewhere else.

If there was truly a malicious intent on the part of Shane Doan or Ladislav Nagy to hurl racist remarks at Quebecers this blog would be dead set against this offense. But there clearly is no evidence of this. In fact, it becomes painfully clear that it was uttered in the heat of the moment. Doan did express wishing he did not choose even the mild comment he made. We all make mistakes. Move on.

Nonetheless, we just sat there...in stunned silence listening to some of the most infantile and useless piece of hack journalism we've heard in a long time.

My lord, I'm watching my fellow Quebecers fall apart - OVER A HOCKEY PLAYER.

*Felardeau once wrote to a local paper describing how the Quebecois were Palestinians in Canada. Yeah, I know. Funny stuff. Two cars in each driveway, pretty autonomous and no fatalities at the hands of terrorists or Ottawa - Quebecers have it real bad. As for the Team Quebec farce: And who will pay for your Team Quebec experiment? The Feds? We all know - and let's call a spade a spade here - Quebec is not with too much wealth. Will you lead the Republic into hockey battle? You're taking it for granted that Quebec players would play for Quebec. I'm not sure this would be an easy task.