I described the Quebec Charter as the 'Know your place' Charter.
It's an easy description to make knowing the source of whence it comes from.
Bob Rae offers his thoughts about Quebec. I'm no supporter of Rae's socialist bent but he reminds readers of the PQ's ethnic nationalist mean streak - though not this reader who knows this all too well.
If you were to give a PQ biography to an outsider they'd immediately connect the party to whatever tribal party in their own country.
Rae describes when Peladeau senior once said 'the Jews take up space.' Which is pretty much in line with Quebecois xenophobia. Quebec has always distrusted the Jews. Which probably explains why Arabs are an ethnic minority that gravitates more than any other to that party. Still, I have no idea how any ethnicity would join a party that in its heart, doesn't consider anyone outside their small definition of what constitutes 'Quebecois.' The so-called 'pure-laine.' Which of course, as is the case with all entities that defines itself along ethnic lines is largely rooted in myths and deception.
These days, Quebec hasn't abandoned its racism. It has double-downed. It now has a problem with other ethnics. I don't really care what they say, but their language obsession is a form of racism. Sure, whatever you say, harassing restaurants for words like 'Trattoria' and 'Pasta' is not racist. Whatever you say you degenerates.
Recall the drunken Jacques Parizeau's retarded statement of claiming Quebec lost the 1995 referendum because of 'money and the ethnic vote.' As a neighbor said to me at the time, 'it's true but he shouldn't have said it.' Right. Keep your racism hidden so I can't see it. That's how fucking stupid they are. They believe they're being honest. Sorta like how the KKK believes blacks needed to know their place.
Bernar 'Bernie' Landry (seriously, get that guy a Bernie from Sesame Street sweater) goes around town demanding people speak to him, as if he's some damn Duke, in French should they have the gall to say hello to him in English. Hockey commentator and former NHL coach, Michel Bergeron declared on a hockey show that Dave Tallon wasn't really a Quebecer which is right in line with Pierre-Karl Peladeau's assertion that the Molson's weren't really Quebecers. Never mind that film maker Felardeau (I forget his first name) once called Canada 'a nation of assholes' on another primetime Quebec tv sports show.
And these are just some of the comments we've heard over the years. I don't include those personally hurled towards me. There have been many more but they escape memory. It doesn't take much digging since some of it has been logged while all one needs to do is ask any person of non-Francophone stock what xenophobic slurs they've heard these buffoons utter in the past.
Don't be fooled by the PQ's bambi-like arguments about only wanting to defend themselves. It would be acceptable if they wouldn't be so damn punitive in their measures. But it's not because all they do is use the law to attack and state-sanction discrimination. Theirs is a foul and twisted vision of what constitutes a free and civil society.
One I want no part of.
It's an easy description to make knowing the source of whence it comes from.
Bob Rae offers his thoughts about Quebec. I'm no supporter of Rae's socialist bent but he reminds readers of the PQ's ethnic nationalist mean streak - though not this reader who knows this all too well.
If you were to give a PQ biography to an outsider they'd immediately connect the party to whatever tribal party in their own country.
Rae describes when Peladeau senior once said 'the Jews take up space.' Which is pretty much in line with Quebecois xenophobia. Quebec has always distrusted the Jews. Which probably explains why Arabs are an ethnic minority that gravitates more than any other to that party. Still, I have no idea how any ethnicity would join a party that in its heart, doesn't consider anyone outside their small definition of what constitutes 'Quebecois.' The so-called 'pure-laine.' Which of course, as is the case with all entities that defines itself along ethnic lines is largely rooted in myths and deception.
These days, Quebec hasn't abandoned its racism. It has double-downed. It now has a problem with other ethnics. I don't really care what they say, but their language obsession is a form of racism. Sure, whatever you say, harassing restaurants for words like 'Trattoria' and 'Pasta' is not racist. Whatever you say you degenerates.
Recall the drunken Jacques Parizeau's retarded statement of claiming Quebec lost the 1995 referendum because of 'money and the ethnic vote.' As a neighbor said to me at the time, 'it's true but he shouldn't have said it.' Right. Keep your racism hidden so I can't see it. That's how fucking stupid they are. They believe they're being honest. Sorta like how the KKK believes blacks needed to know their place.
Bernar 'Bernie' Landry (seriously, get that guy a Bernie from Sesame Street sweater) goes around town demanding people speak to him, as if he's some damn Duke, in French should they have the gall to say hello to him in English. Hockey commentator and former NHL coach, Michel Bergeron declared on a hockey show that Dave Tallon wasn't really a Quebecer which is right in line with Pierre-Karl Peladeau's assertion that the Molson's weren't really Quebecers. Never mind that film maker Felardeau (I forget his first name) once called Canada 'a nation of assholes' on another primetime Quebec tv sports show.
And these are just some of the comments we've heard over the years. I don't include those personally hurled towards me. There have been many more but they escape memory. It doesn't take much digging since some of it has been logged while all one needs to do is ask any person of non-Francophone stock what xenophobic slurs they've heard these buffoons utter in the past.
Don't be fooled by the PQ's bambi-like arguments about only wanting to defend themselves. It would be acceptable if they wouldn't be so damn punitive in their measures. But it's not because all they do is use the law to attack and state-sanction discrimination. Theirs is a foul and twisted vision of what constitutes a free and civil society.
One I want no part of.
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