Quebec Is A Lapped Entity

When Sun Life, the story goes, left Montreal for Toronto it hastened the fall of this city as Canada's business leader. The move was followed by Royal Bank, BMO and other companies relocating to Toronto making it permanently the financial boss of Canada.

And Quebec just gave it away for linguistic reasons.

No, Quebec is not a business hub of any kind. It doesn't naturally attract foreign investment. Not with a mindset that prioritizes culture - specifically language - above business. Add an unhealthy dislike of business and capitalism in general and we have what we get: A low growth, low-productive, have-not province shooting itself in the foot repeatedly.

Already Canada has a hard enough time attracting business because of its proximity to the U.S. and so relies on luring companies with tax breaks and credits. But when those things run out, it risks companies leaving because we don't have a business environment they may need.

If Francois Legault exemplifies the general outlook of Quebecers (and I think he does), there's no fixing this. This is Quebec's 'minding'. In a recent statement, Legault said Quebecers need to adjust their expectations for 'grand projects'. So we're stuck with fiddling around with roofs on dated stadiums pretending it's some sort of important project because, as one person put it, the Olympic Stadium is our Eiffel Tower.

There aren't enough face palms.

This is how that story goes. It will cost around $835 million to replace the roof. $2 billion to tear it down. Ergo, it's more 'economical' to replace the roof. Except, this is Quebec Grift City where that $835 will easily triple making it as costly as just taking dynamite to it. 

Now if we were truly a serious society committed to the 'green economy' as Legaul likes to yap on about like a good Motherweffer, what they'd do is scrap the stadium and REBUILD it according to all the new standards and codes of the modern era. Look up Allianz Stadium - home of Serie A giants Juventus. Look at the marvel of ingenuity it is. It was green before it was hip to be green. Here's Quebec's chance to actually give something for places to emulate.

Nope. Let's fix the roof for a stadium no one likes. The 2026 World Cup is in North America. Guess what? Vancouver and Toronto have games. Montreal doesn't. 

Canadians are incapable of putting money where their big-ass talk is. Chirp, chirp, chirp. Ban plastic and tax carbon instead. 

Combine this mentality with linguistic bigotry on full display (and yes, Francois you're a bigot as are anyone who cheers on your attacks on English. You're fooling no one. Europe has no such linguistic tensions and neither does the USA. Just Quebec. 

Our actions and attitudes come with real-life consequences. I guess it's better to all be collectively miserable as long as it's in French seems to be the message.

So now McGill has been attacked as the province seeks to 'Franchisize' the internationally famous honourary Ivy League institution. In other words, Quebec nationalists want to get in there, squat and ruin it like they do everything. All in French.

And CAE was recently audited to ensure they're not afoul of Quebec's onerous and unproductive language laws imposed on businesses.

If I'm those two institutions. I bolt. Spark another exodus. Let the word out more that Quebec doesn't value not only business but sane policies. As usual, Quebec demands respect and other work to protect them while offering neither to the rest of the country.

As one Quebecer put it, 'Let McGill fall'.

Imagine that. And then they get upset when we call them parochial hayseeds. Mississippi North this place.

Here's another thing that needs to be pointed out. Quebecers often scream Canada is an officially bilingual nation whenever they feel French is being disrespected. Technically, indeed. Canada is bilingual even though very little French is needed or required in most of the country but in the spirit of unity, it maintains the status (however a facade it may be). No province has declared itself unilingual.

Except one. Guess which one that is?

Quebec. 

Quebec can't have it both ways. It can't complain about language issues while it's officially unilingual. It made its bed. So why would they care if Saskatchewan doesn't do enough French? In any event, they don't even care about the Francophone fact in other provinces. They just care about Quebec.

You have a separatist party in Ottawa that is permitted to speak French (and keep a Federal pension paid for by the very same people they want to separate from), but in Quebec, it's not permitted to speak English. Who is the more enlightened part of the country then?

Quebec has been lapped and it doesn't even realize it. 

Keeping it real folks.