@Anonymous:
you forgot #3 - i havn’t compared the PQ to Nazis (yet)
hazzz ??? No ???… but in the topic “Canadian Parties” you said;
Jacques Parizeau is a lunatic. He and Hitler would have got along well, my friend.
I bet you cannot give me even one thing Parizeau is doing like Hitler…
- well, that’s a long way from calling the PQ Nazi’s, and calling Quebec racist, isn’t it?
- from B’Nai Brith
In October and November, the Quebec referendum also produced a flurry of bigotry directed at the non-Francophone population of the province. Jacques Parizeau, who was then premier of Quebec, lashed out at “the ethnic vote” for the narrow losses of his separatist forces. In earlier stages of the referendum campaign, Pierre Bourgault, a communications advisor to Parizeau, cryptically warned Quebec Jews of “a dangerous situation” if they openly supported the federalist side.
The significance of these events cannot be overstated. While the comments made by the politicians or the broadcasters were by no means as virulently intolerant as the charged rhetoric of the neo-Nazi right, their remarks served as signals that expressions of hatred and bias against Jews and other minorities were acceptable in contemporary Canadian culture. For political leaders and media personalities to espouse views hostile to Jews gives a message to the general population: anti-Semitism continues to be part of the canon of our culture. The press and politicians set the tone and terms of debate in our free and democratic state. They have the responsibility to condemn, not to promote, racism. Unfortunately, in 1995, this ideal was seriously compromised.
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From the World Jewish Congress
Money and the ethnic vote" were responsible for the defeat of the Quebec separatists in the recent referendum. “We will reap our revenge in our own country”, thundered Jacques Parizeau. While those words resulted in the Parti Quebecois [PQ] chief’s immediate resignation, they continue to reverberate. It has been suggested by some analysts that Parizeau’s speech may have been a deliberate attempt to strike fear into the hearts of the minority population in order to encourage them to leave Quebec.
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question. Who will this revenge be exacted upon? Upon the 51% who voted “no”? On the handful of minorities who voted no? Do you know why nearly all of the minorities including the Jews and aboriginals voted No? Can you guess? Is it because of Parizeau’s (and the PQ’s) overly kind attitude towards them?
Please. A German lecturing me on being racist against other caucasians, when i havn’t said anything racist about them, but rather expressed concern over their treatment of minorities.
#1; PQ is not using money from taxes to promote Separation. (or if they do it’s very new because i am not as informed as i was about quebec).
#2; Quebec’s economy is doing very well since the PQ is there, search for stats if you don’t believe me
Their economy has been up and down. They have lost many businesses, including the head-quarters of many large companies which over the years have moved west. They have contained thier economy since the “no” vote, but until then it had been going down the crapper.
Being Canadian does not mean you are right, saying Parizeau is like Hitler show me how “rational” you are on the subject.
no, being Canadian does not make me right, however it does make me better informed, and much more affected by these events.
As for how “rational” i am on the subject, well, i’ll stick by my sentiments with regards to Parizeau. Simply telling me that he is brilliant (something i won’t contest) and his help has been requested by the federal gov’t (big deal - most politicians are idiots - one more or less hardly makes a difference here) does little to make me consider that my previous concerns were irrational. I’m quite certain that many mad, evil, racist, fascist dictators who ruled with considerable power over entire countries in this century might be considered brilliant tactically. That does not make them good, wise, etc.
“We will reap our revenge in our own country”, thundered Jacques Parizeau.
Thank God that was in late 20th Century Canada - who knows what those remarks might have provoked in another time (50 years earlier) in another place (say . . . Germany?)
