Defending Michael Chong
2006-11-28 15:57:00
The author of this column is certainly not a warm supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada led by Stephen Harper. Nonetheless, in the House of Commons, when 266 votes vs 16 approved the motion that recognizes "Québécois" as a nation "within an united Canada", Michael
Chong, the former Intergovernmental Affairs minister, did the right thing by repudiating this weird motion that wouldn't make Quebeckers' house more beautiful.Michael Chong, who is now replaced by Peter Van Loan, is certainly one of the rare MPs who gave his opinion. Is he right when he says that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion about Quebec is an "ethnic recognition"? The answer is yes. However, what many people don't know is that Stephen Harper, although he says that he's not racist, has a "nativism" (an expression that belongs to Larry Zolf) that is rooted deeply into his individual mentality.Besides, Chong is probably one of the few MPs on the Parliament Hill who saw that this useless semantic debate
Ignatieff and the separatists
2006-10-16 14:44:00
Yesterday, the eight candidates for the leadership race of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) verbally fought each other in a debate. This fifth and last debate was held in Toronto at the Roy Thompson Hall. Obviously, it gave to the 1500 supporters who were present the occasion to see some candidates showing their heavy rhetoric artillery.From left to right: Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff
and Stéphane Dion during yesterday's debate in Toronto.As time goes by, many people are trying to predict who will be the successor of Paul Martin. At the light of what we heard from this debate, Michael Ignatieff doesn't certainly have what it takes to be a Prime minister. If Ignatieff became not only the successor of Paul Martin, but also the Prime minister of Canada, will he deal softly with Quebec's separatists?We still don't know yet, but his constitutional vision paradoxically elates the separatists, because Ignatieff wants the province of Quebec to be recognized as a nation in the Canadian cons
The US missile-defence program
2006-10-05 14:04:00
In a very explosive report that was published yesterday, the members of Canada's Senate committee declared that this country must join the US missile-defence
program. As far as we know, last year, the government formed by Paul Martin (the former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada) declined the proposition that came from George W. Bush.You might find it very strange, but most members of the Senate have ties with the Liberals. However, it's not the ties that should tell us the look of the arguments, but rather their report that should tell us why it is part of Canada's national interest to join such a military program that few citizens here understand. Since I don't have the report with me, a few recommendations of the Standing Committee on National Security and Defence will be published at the end of this blog entry.As for the Conservative Party of Canada, they are convinced that Canada should join that American military program since 2004. I do agree that Canada is starting
A feminist political party
2006-09-24 09:11:00
I really don't have anything to write today in my blog, but yesterday, Ergo Te Lina talked about a new feminist
political
party that will make its appearance in the Canadian federal political landscape. This party, for your information, is called the Feminist Initiative of Canada and I don't need to tell you that this party is openly feminist. Hey guys don't worry, this political party believes in the virtue of equality between men and women.Feminist Initiative of Canada was gradually being created since the two last years. According to journalist Jennifer Hourihan, Feminist Initiative of Canada directly comes from the project WISE (Well-being through Inclusion Socially and Economically). Well, only History will tell us what their election platform will look like in the next election.From left to right: Angela Scotton, Chrystal Ocean and Daphne MoldowinFrom what I've read on this party that is led by Chrystal Ocean, Daphne Moldowin and Angela Scotton, Feminist Initiative of Can
Inaccuracy and lies
2006-09-18 18:05:00
Read this very shocking article from the newspaper The Globe and Mail and you'll see how the Canadian government, back in 2003, was using ethnic discrimination to enforce our laws that were apparently inherited from the British colonization. Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was sent by the Canadian authorities to the USA and then, my Southern neighbours sent Arar to Syria. Once he arrived in Syria, Arar was thrown behind bars and the Syrian government tortured him. Three years later, the Canadian government discovers that Maher Arar was a victim of inaccurate intelligence reports of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). All that being said, the Canadian government believed that Maher Arar had some ties with Al-Qaeda, but it turns out to be all rubbish according to a federal report made by the judge Dennis O'Connor. After you've read the article of The Globe and Mail, you'll have an idea of what it means to have a government that is often politically paranoid just like certai
Constitutional debate in Canada
2006-09-15 09:00:00
When the new Canadian constitution came into effect in 1982, the province of Quebec's Premier René Lévesque didn't want to sign it because the Quebecker government was claiming for more provincial autonomy. However, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, the Prime minister of Canada
in these days, perfectly knew that without the signature of Quebec, the Constitution couldn't be adopted since Quebec has a veto. After all, that constitution went on to be adopted by Canadians.As Canadians witness the leadership race in the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), many front-runners such as Bob Rae, Michael Ignatieff and Stéphane Dion expressed their viewpoint on the Canadian constitutional debate. From what we can see, Stéphane Dion doesn't seem interested to re-open this old debate while Bob Rae, on the other hand, would like to tackle one issue at a time in this constitutional problem.Stéphane DionSpeaking about the Canadian constitution, Stéphane Dion, the former Minister of Environment, doesn't seem
Jack Layton and the republic
2006-09-08 09:30:00
Among the members of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), John Manley, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, has once said publicly that the Canadian parliamentary monarchy was useless. Thus, Manley is labelled as a republican who advocates the abolition of the parliamentary monarchy. Even though the abolition of the parliamentary monarchy is a very popular idea among the French-speaking people in Canada, it's not a very popular idea for most of the English Canadians. Now, Jack Layton
, the leader of the weak socialist-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP), wants to bring the idea about the creation of a Canadian republic to conquer the hearts of voters from Quebec.At this very moment, I'm sure that Jack Layton is firmly believing that his new ideas will help him to win seats in Quebec. However, is that idea of creating a republic really enough for Layton? Even though most Quebeckers viscerally desire the abolition of the parliamentary monarchy, it definitely takes more than this idea t
Does Ignatieff sound like Trudeau?
2006-09-01 09:29:00
As an intellectual figure who has an international reputation, Michael Ignatieff
, one of the eleven candidates in the leadership race of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), definitely has the technique when he wants to say ludicrous things. As a former university teacher, people expect Ignatieff to be very intelligent, but his remarks often illustrate a disconnection with reality. Furthermore, if you're a foreigner, don't wonder why so many Canadians compare him to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Prime minister of Canada 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.Obviously, as opposed to Michael Ignatieff who didn't have any experience in Canadian politics before the federal election of the 23rd of January 2006, Pierre Elliott Trudeau has been the Minister of Justice in the government of Lester B. Pearson, which means that Trudeau did have some experience before he became at the same time the leader of the LPC and eventually Canada's Prime minister.In this article written in French, it is repor
Michael Ignatieff divides the Liberals
2006-08-30 09:20:00
Michael Ignatieff
Photo Canadian PressWhile Michael Ignatieff, one of the eleven candidates in the leadership race of the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC), is organizing on his web site auctions that allow people to "date" a deputy that is supporting him, we can be sure that the LPC is not really able to take advantage of the contempt that most Canadians have for the Conservative Party. I'm not a hard supporter of the LPC, but in my opinion, one of the problems that the Liberals
have is their division that can clearly be seen in the actual leadership race that is taking place in their party.The reason why the Liberals can't really take off in the public opinions can also be explained by the division that tears their party as it was said in the introduction. When Stephen Harper, the Prime minister of Canada and the leader of the Conservative Party, have proposed in the House of Commons to prorogate the mandate of the Canadian troops in Afghanistan, some of the Liberals were against that p
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Canadians detest their pro-American government
2006-08-25 22:19:00
The newspaper Journal de Montréal shows us that the Conservative Party, the governing party that is led by Stephen Harper, lost some support according to the latest survey made by the group SES Research. With a low score of 36% nationwide, the Tories are getting back to where they used to be right before the general election of the 23rd of January 2005. Furthermore, 42% of people coming from the province of Quebec said that they'd vote for the Bloc Québécois.Even though a sample made of 1003 persons, who responded to the surveys from the 18th to the 23rd of August, was used, it shows us that the dream of Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper to form a majority in the House of Commons is gradually fading. Obviously, Harper has hit a low because some Canadians
have seen that he can't really defend the interest of Canada.In the conflict over the issue of the trades of softwood lumber that opposed Canada to the USA, Canada could only get $4 billions out of the $5.3 billions that
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Climate Change: Canadian Arrogance on the Agenda
2007-06-04 16:55:00
On Wednesday, Canada's Prime Minister will take part to the G8 summit in Heilingendamm, a city in the North of Germany. Moreover, climate change will be on the agenda. Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, affirmed that members of the G8 are to reduce 50% of their greenhouse gas levels by 2050 while using 1990 as the baseline. Before he said that Canada is not in a good position to suscribe to Merkel's vision, Stephen Harper said that Canada can be a role model for countries like India, China and the USA.Harper spent his time blaming the Liberals for not doing anything while it was them who signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol! After all, the leader of the Conservative Party is not necessarily wrong when he blames the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC). Nonetheless, that doesn't give a reason for Harper to take people for idiots. He also has his share of responsibility in the pollution of Canada. In short, Canada has no lessons to give to other countries in environment.While the Kyoto
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Environmentalists' Smallness of Thoughts
2007-06-08 16:48:00
According to environmentalists and politicians of opposition parties, John Baird, Canada's Environment minister, must resign, because he didn't bother to respect the Kyoto Protocol in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What if Stephen Harper was right about the very usefulness of these people's sacred cow? Now, this is the inconvenient truth: respecting the Kyoto Protocol by the book won't be of any help to Canada.The Kyoto Protocol's weakness lies in its denial of any given country's own domestic particularities. In fact, France, Germany and Great Britain can reduce their emissions of greenhouse gas more easily than Canada because their economy is not mostly built on natural resources (ex: oil and natural gas).Do people know what are the protocol's objectives? Apparently not in some cases. Nevertheless, far from me be it to state that climate change is a nonsensical theory! Canada must do everything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All in all, this nation's fight aga
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American Military Money in Iraq
2007-06-12 22:20:00
Yesterday, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) announced the release of its annual yearbook on armaments, disarmament and international security. According to the SIPRI's report, “world military expenditure in 2006 was [worth] $1204 billion in current dollars, [which means a 3.5%] increase since 2005.” Obviously, the USA outranks every countries with its military spending of $528.7 billion meant for the war in Iraq
and Afghanistan.During the press conference, one interesting statement was made.“It is worth asking how cost-effective military expenditure is as a way of increasing the security of human lives, if we talk about avoiding premature deaths and disability due to current dangers[,]” said Elisabeth Sköns, the SIPRI Military
Expenditure and Arms Production Programme Leader.Of course, the statement of Sköns can be applied for the context in Iraq. Therefore, is the American
government's financial management of the war in Iraq effective as a way t
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L'absence de valeurs communes au Canada
2007-02-23 19:17:00
Ceci est le dernier d’une série de quatre éditoriaux concernant l’enquête sur le racisme au Québec menée par la firme de sondage Léger Marketing durant le temps des fêtes. L’analyse socio-historique qui se dégageait de chaque éditorial fut la banalisation du nationalisme ethnique (ou racial) tant chez bon nombre des descendants des peuples fondateurs du Canada
que chez bien des personnes issues des ethnies minoritaires.Conséquemment, cet éditorial fusionnera les deux derniers éditoriaux dans le but de traiter d’une manière synthétique le vide idéologique absolu auquel nous faisons face, en tant que Canadiens, en raison de la Loi du multiculturalisme à cette époque de post-modernité. Pour ce faire, il faut remonter vers le 19e siècle et déboulonner certaines idées reçues.La fondation du CanadaQuoique nos politiciens disent, le Canada, au cours de son histoire, n’a jamais eu un ensemble de valeurs communes. En effet, rappelez-vous qu’avant la signature d
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French Election, Nicolas Sarkozy and J.R.R. Tolkien
2007-06-15 08:20:00
In two days, the second round of the French
legislative election will be held. Apparently, Nicolas
Sarkozy
's own political party is seen as the leading party to the point that some French people actually fear the upcoming political context in France. In fact, that fear can be seen in this video that I found on the blog Place de la République and there are also other things that will be shared. So watch the video and tell me what you think about it.Besides, have a look at the image that you can find on the web site Vivre avec Sarkozy, an anti-Sarkozy web site.
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Visible minorities and slow integration
2007-01-13 12:15:00
When I bought yesterday’s edition of The Globe and Mail, I read a very interesting article of Marina Jiménez, the immigration reporter. In her article, she declares that visible minorities (and their children) “identify less and less with the country (Canada)”, according to a report made by Jeffrey Reitz, a University of Toronto sociologist, and Rupa Banerjee, a doctoral candidate. The question at the centre of that report was: “what it means to be Canadian – and specifically how that identity resonates with immigrants and their Canadian-born offspring.”In this report made with the co-operation of 40,000 respondents, Reitz and Banerjee found that visible minorities who have difficulty to integrate into the Canadian society are mostly from China, South Asia and the Caribbean. Moreover, that report also said that in general, “visible-minority immigrants are slower to integrate into Canadian society than their white, European counterparts, and feel less Canadian”. If a nu
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Quebeckers Incomprehension on Afghanistan
2007-06-23 14:55:00
Yesterday, a military parade was held in Quebec City. It was formed of 2000 soldiers who are part of the 5th Mechanized Brigade and the Royal 22nd Regiment, which will be sent in Afghanistan
in July and August for 6 months. Apparently, 70% of Quebeckers are against the mission. No surprise here. Quebec have always had a mainstream tradition of being opposed to Canada's military commitments oversea.However, this opposition to this country's presence in Afghanistan can hypothetically be due to most Quebeckers' lack of information on the mission itself, according to Jocelyn Coulon, the director of the University of Montreal's Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations.According to many anti-war protesters who talked yesterday, Canada is taking part to an "imperialist" adventure. In a poll conducted by Léger Marketing, 62% of Quebeckers believed that Canadian troops are in Afghanistan so that Canada can be in good terms with the USA rather than participating to the restoration o
Italian Neo-Realism and Iraq
2007-06-22 12:25:00
With my daily visit on the web meant to feed me in terms of news, I saw a very interesting thing on the web site of Radio-Canada. Today, journalist Sophie-Hélène Leboeuf shares with us a very interesting news on Iraq
. If you look at what she said, she was talking about a new way to write History. From what I know, in the previous centuries, people used to write what they felt in their memoirs or even a notebook.When the camera was invented, many people started to make on their own their movies even though they knew it sucks like hell. Now, with the quick development of Internet, it is now possible to become known around the world. Why is that so? Well, you don't need the budget of a James Bond movie to promote your art work and be part of the marketing process.An American company called Chat the planet was part of a web project called Hometown Bagdad. Since March, this web project is actually part of a vlog (meaning video blog for the ignorant people out there :-P) that shows you 38
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Quebec's Educational Conundrum
2007-06-20 20:39:00
Quebec is currently facing a shortage of teachers. For instance, a science teacher in High school can hardly be found that Quebeckers schools hired 142 teachers last year. These 142 science teachers didn't even have a teaching licence.Talk about so much open-mindedness from Quebec's educational system! If you're not qualified to teach any given subject, maybe you'll be hired if you studied in a Quebecker university. Unfortunately, many people don't notice Quebec's lack of open-mindedness towards qualified immigrants when it comes to granting teaching licence.For instance, this is what Bernard Tremblay, the director of working relations from the Fédération des commissions scolaires du Québec (FCSQ) said:"I've always had the feeling that [Quebec's] ministry of Education had an approach that is opened enough. We don't believe that the ministry of Education's attitude restrict the access to teaching for qualified people."Despite the few improvement that we've seen in the past
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Towards a New Nationalism in Quebec
2007-03-29 21:35:00
With their support to the Action Démocratique du Quebec
(ADQ), certain Quebeckers are gradually (albeit very slowly) embracing a new kind of nationalism to most Montrealers’ greatest displeasure: a philosophy of Canadian/Quebecker melting pot.Speaking of the ridings that were won by any given political parties, Montreal’s election map still looks like a chessboard shared by the Liberal Party of Quebec (LPQ) and the Parti Québécois (PQ). In this memorable provincial election, the major changes occurred when Mario Dumont’s ADQ, by seizing 41 ridings out of 125, truly gave birth to the Rest of Quebec (ROQ), in opposition to Montreal.Boy, that election showed us how much Montreal is worryingly isolated from the ROQ!Democracy certainly spoke on March 26. Political columnist Don MacPherson shamefully missed the target with his opinion piece published today in The Gazette. According to this hard-line ADQ basher, the day of the election “was a great day for xenophobia in Quebec.”
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L'Homo canadienus et l'Homo québécus
2007-02-16 20:30:00
Ceci est le troisième d’une série de quatre éditoriaux concernant l’enquête sur le racisme au Québec menée par la firme de sondage Léger Marketing pendant le temps des fêtes. Alors que l’éditorial précédent montrait le nationalisme canadien ou québécois vu à travers les yeux des ethnies minoritaires, celui-ci présentera ce nationalisme selon l’optique des descendants des deux peuples fondateurs du Canada, sans généraliser, de la Nouvelle-France jusqu’à aujourd’hui.Évidemment, nul ne peut mettre les difficultés auxquelles les ethnies minoritaires font face pour s’intégrer uniquement sur celles-ci comme le font très souvent des spécialistes d’une discipline quelconque des sciences humaines griffonnant dans le magazine séparatiste L’Action Nationale. En effet, des recherches historiques remontant jusqu’au 19e siècle montrent très clairement que les anglophones et les francophones (pas tous) ont toujours, sans même le réaliser, entravé l’i
L'intégration des ethnies minoritaires
2007-02-02 09:37:00
Voici le deuxième d’une série de quatre éditoriaux traitant de l’enquête menée par la firme de sondage Léger Marketing lors du temps des fêtes au sujet du racisme au Québec. Après avoir parlé du nationalisme ethnique chez bon nombre de francophones et anglophones au Canada dans l’éditorial La réciprocité interethnique, je traiterai d’un sujet tabou relégué aux oubliettes par les médias : le racisme et la xénophobie chez les ethnies minoritaires.Un survol progressif du sujet du débat est nécessaire afin d’arriver vers le racisme et de la xénophobie chez les ethnies minoritaires.Étant l’antithèse du concept de creuset culturel (melting pot), la politique du multiculturalisme encourage les ethnies minoritaires à garder leur culture ancestrale et l’exprimer dans la sphère publique afin « d’enrichir l’identité nationale du Canada ».Or, incite-t-on réellement l’intégration des ethnies minoritaires, en faisant croire que toutes les cultures min
La réciprocité interethnique
2007-01-19 23:59:00
Voici le premier d’une série de quatre éditoriaux traitant de l’enquête menée par la firme de sondage Léger Marketing au sujet du « racisme » au Québec. Le 15 janvier, le Journal de Montréal révélait que « 59% des [Franco-Québécois] se disent racistes ». Ce sondage réalisé pour le compte de ce quotidien, de la chaîne de télévision TVA et la chaîne de radio 98,5 FM ne dit pas que les Franco-Québécois sont « racistes ». Au contraire, ceux-ci se perçoivent comme étant des « racistes ».Si douteuse est la méthodologie de Léger Marketing. A-t-on défini le racisme? Aucunement. En maintenant que les Franco-Québécois se perçoivent comme des « racistes » à différents degrés, nous sous-entendons qu’un sentiment de supériorité raciale, ethnique ou culturelle par rapport aux ethnies minoritaires les anime.Or, Jean-Marc Léger, le président de Léger Marketing, et son équipe auraient dû employer le terme « xénophobie ». Certes, nul ne peut nier q
Discoveries about the human brain
2006-12-06 15:38:00
Apparently, some discoveries about the human
brain reveal us that our brain is really a tool that creates, in a manner of speaking our subjectivity. Well, this might not look like something new for you, but some studies present a very deep scientific analysis about the construction of subjectivity. I'm sure that Sigmund Freud, a German psychologist, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher, would have liked to hear about these discoveries.Anyway, here's the link: Why you think you're wonderfulAfter you read the article of the Canadian magazine MaClean's, just tell me what you think about these discoveries. Guess what, maybe some politicians should really read this article, because some of them always think that their own ideas are so wonderful.
A pathetic poll on multiculturalism
2006-11-14 07:44:00
Ok, I'm not supposed to write anything in my blog since I'm on a break, but let me share a very interesting thing with you. It's not the first time that I see an English Canadian newspaper make a poll about Canadians' opinion about multiculturalism. We can see that the majority of Canadians want the "immigrants and ethnic minorities to blend into the Canadian society". However, the problem is that there's lack of nuances in this survey.If you responded by stating that "immigrants and ethnic minorities [should] blend into the Canadian society", the pollsters will think that you're upholding that immigrants and ethnic minorities don't have the right to keep their ancestral culture. It looks like pollsters nowadays don't even know how to make a poll. Americans want immigrants and ethnic minorities to blend into American society. Does it make Americans racist and oppressive? Definitely not.Anyway, Friday, I'll write a blog entry about why I'm against the Multiculturalism Act and
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Two words to Jan Wong: Butt out
2006-09-20 18:02:00
Saturday, a very mindless article was published by Jan Wong in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper that is sold nationwide. Wong, who was born in Montreal in 1953, upheld that the three shootings that took place in Quebecker schools must be associated with the Bill 101. According to this bill, French is technically the language that must be used within the provincial boundaries of Quebec.Jan Wong is viscerally convinced that the Bill 101 excludes the Anglophones and the New Canadians. That's why, as she said it, the three killers (Marc Lépine, Valery Fabrikant and Kimveer Gill) expressed their anger in a society that apparently favours the French-speaking Quebecker.Where is the truth?If you take the time to think about it, you'll see that Wong was totally wrong.Marc Lépine, who was born in Canada from a father who came from Algeria and a French-Canadian mother, killed 14 female students at the École Polytechnique. Lépine vindicated his acts of violence by saying that he hate
Hefty Taxes in Quebec
2007-05-02 19:55:00
When the federal budget was revealed on March 19, which means one week before the day of the provincial election in Quebec
(March 26), Premier Jean Charest made a promise. He announced that, once elected, he'll use the $700 million coming from federal transfers to lower Quebec's provincial taxes. Obviously, that sum of $700 million will accompany the $250 million that already contributes to assuage Quebeckers' fiscal duties.However, Mario Dumont, the leader of the Action Démocratique du Québec (ADQ), indicated that his party won't support such an "unbalanced" budget even if he doesn't know what are Jean Charest's budgetary plans. While he promised to act like a sort of Big Brother at the National Assembly, is Dumont really giving a blow to his discourse's coherence?Not necessarily. Nonetheless, going back into election is not part of Quebeckers' interests. Given Mario Dumont's intentions (which are not subtle), Jean Charest should think twice before lowering our provincial t
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On a Break
2007-04-10 17:20:00
Since I'm really close to the end of my last semester in college, I won't be posting any columns until May 25. Needless to say that I'm inundated by a huge pile of works. That leads me to the announcement that I would like to make: believe it or not, I'm done with changing my mind and I'm finally going to study History at the University of Montreal. I'd also like to take the occasion to wish to those who are students a happy end of semester.To conclude this short message, I'll leave you with a poll about how I can please you, as readers. Once again, thanks to all the readers (although I know that most of you don't always appreciate my opinions) and thanks a lot.Knowing that this blog mainly deals with politics, you'd like to see more columns on...HistoryCanadian federalismMulticulturalism and religionEconomyInternational politicsQuebecker politics and separatismCanadian politicsEnvironmentPolitical booksMovies (dealing with politics)PhilosophyAll of the aboveOther pollcode.com
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Iranian Lies
2007-04-07 14:40:00
On March 23, Iranian
cost guards captured 15 British marines, even though the British government averred that the latters were navigating in Iraqi waters. Afterwards, on April 4, Iran’s president Mahmud Ahmadinejad announced the release of these prisoners just to let them celebrate Easter.Because of the unmasked potential declaration of war to Iran from the USA, the capture of these 15 British marines by Iranian coast guards sent a clear message to the West: Iranian officials are trying to say that their country have the necessary military resources to defend itself against its attackers.You might call this diplomatic game between Iran and Great Britain a tie. None of the protagonists in this game offered public apologies to one another.A little bit more and the West would have described Mahmud Ahmadinejad as the Iranian radicals’ puppets! Obviously, with the unconvincing release of the 15 British soldiers, Iranian officials certainly tried to avoid dishonour, given their reputatio
Separatists Hit the Low
2007-04-03 14:50:00
The Parti Québécois (PQ) hit a low by winning 36 seats (out of 125) at the National Assembly and got 28.34% of the votes in Quebec. All kinds of arguments have been brought by the PQ's supporters themselves to explain this humiliating defeat. Was it because of André Boisclair's leadership style? Not necessarily. That's only one of the causes among others.For some of you, the PQ is about to die. This is not necessarily true. While looking at things within the PQ's frame of mind, the separatists' problem is more rooted into the way they handle their option and their despicable disconnection from reality. All in all, the inconvenient truth must be said: Quebecker separatism is on its way to hit the low, but not to die.What some members of the PQ doesn't really understand is that many people in Quebec are not that interested to separate from Canada. Besides, don't you think that the PQ arrogantly looks at Quebeckers by attempting to present a "pedagogy about sovereignty"? For mor
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