Ask me about being a Québec separatist

[TomCollins]

Why is everyone in Canada so nice, yet everyone in Quebec such a miserable bastard?

Why would Canada want to keep Quebec?

[CasqueNoir]

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Why don't you go back to France?

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Why don't you go back to England?

[CrazyIrishman]

I guess I have to question the separatist movement because the canadian government is one of the only reason the Quebec provincial government wasn't able to completely [censored] the James Bay Cree in the latest Hydroelectric plant deal.

[CasqueNoir]

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Are you passionate about the language issues in Quebec. Does it piss you off to see signs in English.

If it does, don't you think you should relax a bit?

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It depends, I think it is normal as a majority to require at least a version in a sign in the majority language. Some people would want it exclusively in french but I think it is going too far.

[microbet]

Quebec should separate. It's good if two parts of Canada preserve very different cultures. It gives Americans a wider selection of vacation options.

[Zurvan]

How does it feel to have completely bought in to the propoganda that the Separatist movement, at the political levels, has anything at all to do with

a) Culture
b) Actually separating from Canada

when in reality it's a tool for Quebec politicians to use as a threat to get special treatment for Quebec from the rest of the country?

What industries will support Quebec were it to separate? What about the military, since most French Canadians I knew were rabidly against separation, how would you provide for national security?

Would Quebec take their fair share of the National deficit? How would the Quebec government operate without the influx of money it gets from Alberta & Ontario? How would you maintain your socialist policies at your current level of taxation without that money?

I have more, but you can start with those.

[TheMainEvent]

Casque,

From a practical standpoint it would seem to me that the benefits you list are largely symbolic and the detriments would actually have a negative impact on the day to day lives of citizens.

[Kramer.]

How do you feel aboot Triumph the Insult Comic Dog?

[crazy canuck]

What do francophones think about Harper's new stance?

For Americans:

I'm referring to the Quebec as a nation thing.

[CasqueNoir]

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1) Do you realize that Quebec is not economically viable by itself*?
(If Alberta wants to go it alone thy got a shot, everyone else would be in a *substantially* worse position than they were before).

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That claim is just riduculous. Why would Quebec be less of a viable country than, say, Sweden, Finland or Switzerland?

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2) Do you feel guilty being part of a movement that has been seriously detrimental to Quebec? Regardless of whether Quebec ever separates or not, it is a matter of fact that big businesses (including, but not limited to, major sport leagues) have seen Quebec as a bad place to do business given the instability and events like the FLQ crisis. Indeed, a large part of the growth of BC in recent decades has been at the cost of Quebec.

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I don't think so at all. The thing is as french folks began to educate themselves more and starting business more and making things more in french, big businesses having always been run by anglophones bosses with french workers, did not accept that and just went away. I claim that businesses that go away because of political reasons are just english people frustrated to lose their power.

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3) What do you think of the FLQ crisis?

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I thought it was an event that told a lot of how things are working in Canada. Trudeau sent in the army for a dozen guys causing trouble and in the meantime put in prison all prominent pro-independance and union leaders. Did not do anything but went to prison as political prisoners without any trial.

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4) Are you offended if you see a sign advertising a business and the English letters are the same size as the French ones?

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No

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5) What would you say to someone who says that referendums have been held a number of times and you've lost, it's time to move on and it's patently unfair to just keep voting on the issue until you get your way at which point you will argue that its what Quebec wants.

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Population change with time and people who voted the last time are not there anymore and new ones will vote. I don't think democracy can decide one thing at one time and settles on it for eternity.