[BQSupporter]

What we are seeing here folks are the pre-shocks to the earthquake that will be the political break up of the Canadian Federation.

There is a “Velvet Divorce” between the provinces of Canada coming in the next 10 years.

The reason Canada is going that way is that Canada is a geographic fiction and political convenience. Canada has no positive nationalism. It defines itself as a Negative, “We are the ‘Not-America’ in North America.”

Say what you will about Pierre Trudeau, he was a Canadian Nationalist. He tried to make a Canadian nationalism apart from the British Imperial tradition. He failed. He destroyed the old Grit identity without replacement.

Now it has been decades since then and empty men who believe in nothing but their own power populate Canada’s elected government. Empty men with no higher callings of loyalty like religious faith or national identity who will believe in anything and everything but most especially their own power.

Nations like people need a vision in life to live for or they just shrivel up and die.

Canada is a secular vision in negative with nothing, no higher calling or ties of loyalty, between it and the abyss of political corruption and political extinction.

[Riverwind]

Nations built on ethno-centric or religious nationalism are suffocating places that supress their own people in the name of national unity. Most of the wars in the world now are started by nations with 'higher callings of loyalty like religious faith or national identity'.

Canada is a place that is flexible enough to accodomate many visions of how the world should work. Flexibility and compromise, unfortunately, is very messy and is very unstatifying to those quebequois and christian fundementalists who prefer to describe the world in absolutes of black and white. For me and many other Canadians the undefined mess that is Canada is something to be proud of.

The corruption in Quebec Liberal party was caused by a relatively small number of unethical people that are always attracted to parties that have political power. It is no different than the NDP 'bingogate' scandal in BC were the provincial NDP party was caught stealling money from charities. In the BC case, the guilty were drummed out of the party and sent to jail and the party recovered. The same will happen in Quebec. Unfortunately, there are many opportunists that seek to exagerate the importance of the scandal in order to promote thier own political agendas.

[ScottBrison]

Dear BS.... I mean BQSupporter:

NUTS!

Signed,
General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[August1991]

ScottBrison, on May 20 2005, 01:34 AM, said:

Dear BS.... I mean BQSupporter:

NUTS!

Signed,
General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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Denial, sort of. But not wrong.

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There is a “Velvet Divorce” between the provinces of Canada coming in the next 10 years.

Wait and see.

No one in this country seems to be able to imagine a place, ours, where we don't cheat one another.

Imagine!