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#252
12-15-2006, 10:25 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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I don't see what the big difficulty with the Eastern provinces joining with the US would be. Ontario would be cut off from the provinces by the French separatists, so maybe those provinces would rather be with their Mainer brethren.... [/ QUOTE ] Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, they don't want to be Americans? That somebody could like being Canadian, and want to be part of Canada? That, in fact, there's an entire country full of 30,000,000 people that could emigrate to the US, but choose to stay in Canada? 
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#253
12-15-2006, 10:30 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
Yeah, but once the Frenchies cut them off from the rest of rational Canada, maybe they'll want to hang out with someone a little cooler than a broken down country with the frickin' Queen on its money- for God sakes, have a little pride, she's not YOUR Queen, take her off YOUR money.
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#254
12-15-2006, 10:32 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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Yeah, but once the Frenchies cut them off from the rest of rational Canada, maybe they'll want to hang out with someone a little cooler than a broken down country with the frickin' Queen on its money- for God sakes, have a little pride, she's not YOUR Queen, take her off YOUR money. [/ QUOTE ] Wow. You make some compelling points. Why didn't I realize this before? We ARE a broken down country. The US is way cooler than us. And being a Commonwealth country does NOT mean she's our queen. Thank you so much for showing us uncool, stupid Canucks the error of our ways.
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#255
12-15-2006, 10:33 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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Yeah, but once the Frenchies cut them off from the rest of rational Canada, maybe they'll want to hang out with someone a little cooler than a broken down country with the frickin' Queen on its money- for God sakes, have a little pride, she's not YOUR Queen, take her off YOUR money. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, she is OUR Queen, that's why she's on OUR money.
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#256
12-15-2006, 10:37 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
The Amerindians in the sparsely populated northern 2/3rds of the province don't want to leave Canada. I assume those who support a breakaway Quebec also support allowing the self-determination of the northern 2/3rds to remain in Canada, including all those nice profitable power plants.
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#257
12-15-2006, 10:43 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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Those facts are entirely irrelevant to the conversation. You're talking about things that happened over 100 years ago. Yes, in 1890 there were some attempts by English Canada to crush the French language. In 2006, there is no active movement in Canada to repress French language and culture. There is, however, a movement to repress English language and culture in Quebec. This is a fact, most obviously shown by the language laws, and French school laws, as described by Hopey. [/ QUOTE ]The Manitoba law introduced in 1890 desribed in the link was just abrogated in 1979, so it's not that old you know. I don't think asking for commercial signing in french and immigrants to go to school in french is too much to ask and is not repression of anything english. We'll just have to disagree there. By the way, bill 101 is suported by almost everybody here, not just separatists.
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#258
12-15-2006, 10:45 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
No, you're broken down if the Quebcois leave. And I still don't get the Queen thing. She's English. You're not a colony... so....... ahhh.
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Yeah, but once the Frenchies cut them off from the rest of rational Canada, maybe they'll want to hang out with someone a little cooler than a broken down country with the frickin' Queen on its money- for God sakes, have a little pride, she's not YOUR Queen, take her off YOUR money. [/ QUOTE ] Actually, she is OUR Queen, that's why she's on OUR money. [/ QUOTE ]
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#259
12-15-2006, 10:56 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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No, you're broken down if the Quebcois leave. And I still don't get the Queen thing. She's English. You're not a colony... so....... ahhh. [/ QUOTE ] You're right, you don't understand, and you don't have a [censored] clue what you're talking about.
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#260
12-15-2006, 10:58 AM
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Re: Ask me about being a Québec separatist
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[ QUOTE ] Those facts are entirely irrelevant to the conversation. You're talking about things that happened over 100 years ago. Yes, in 1890 there were some attempts by English Canada to crush the French language. In 2006, there is no active movement in Canada to repress French language and culture. There is, however, a movement to repress English language and culture in Quebec. This is a fact, most obviously shown by the language laws, and French school laws, as described by Hopey. [/ QUOTE ]The Manitoba law introduced in 1890 desribed in the link was just abrogated in 1979, so it's not that old you know. I don't think asking for commercial signing in french and immigrants to go to school in french is too much to ask and is not repression of anything english. We'll just have to disagree there. By the way, bill 101 is suported by almost everybody here, not just separatists. [/ QUOTE ] Someone mentioned earlier that Mississipi just officially abolished slavery in (I believe) 1995. In my home town, there was a law on the books that Negroes couldn't live in the city limits. It was just removed in 1990's. Does that mean that Mississipi was actively promoting slavery until 1995? Or that there were no black people in my hometown until the 1990's? No, it means they were old, outdated laws, that nobody cared about anymore. But, they are good fodder for propoganda. Manitoba has a large French population, and has for a long time.
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