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Guigue...Honest question...How else should Canadians read Quebec's voting for the Bloc if not as an anti-federal message?

Posted by Name Withheld By Request (aka BlueKopo) Nov 27 '08, 14:02

Coyne's like many other Canadians pundits right now...Wondering when Quebeckers are going to actually show an interest in Canada as a whole instead of just a resource for Quebec's provincial ambitions. The Bloc is a symbol of those provincial ambitions.

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(And by Canadians, I mean those of us outside Quebec.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:10
Don't try to get me to defend the bloc, like I said this morning, they were the last of the 4 parties I would have voted for in the last election - Guigue Nov 27, 14:10 25
- I'm not asking you to defend the Bloc. I'm asking you to defend Quebeckers. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:23 23
  - Sorry, Quebeckers won't be Canadians before Quebeckers anytime soon - Guigue Nov 27, 14:33 14
    - That's the problem! If your post had been written by a westerner in the 90's and you replaced "Bloc" with "Reform", you'd have been considered... - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:47 13
      - My most fervent hope is that they simply maintain the status quo, and don't actively try to fuck the country in the ass. - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:52 12
        
        The status quo is already a problem of "There's everyone else and then there's us." I'm not even the biggest federalist and that disconnect bothers.. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:54 11
        
        What is it that you want them to share with you? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:57 10
        
        I want Quebeckers to show that they actually want to be Canadians. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:58 9
        
        Also, you're using the word wrong. Quebecker also refers to Aboriginal and english-speaking residents of Quebec. - Beryllium Nov 27, 15:02 1
        
        You may be correct. But when the official line of the provincial government is so nationalistic as well, it's tough not to encompess everyone. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 15:08
        
        Who else do you want to demonstrate their desire to be Canadian? First Nations? Chinese-Canadians? - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:59 6
        
        And that makes it okay? That means it's unfair of me to ask why I should continue to support the demands of people who want no part of my country? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 15:02 5
        
        honestly, it seems a bit strange for you to be saying "You shouldn't want the things you say you want." Seems poor as an overall strategy. -- nm - Reagen Nov 27, 15:06 2
        
        That's the thing though. They say they don't want to leave Canada, but they don't show that they care about Canada either. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 15:12 1
        
        They've had a different vision of Canada for hundreds of years and will continue to for hudnreds more. might as well command the tide not to rise. -- nm - Reagen Nov 27, 15:14
        
        No, but in my opinion, it makes you Un-Canadian to be so xenophobic. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 15:03 1
        
        (see what I did there? I proved your point, but accused you of the same exact mentality as them.) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 15:06
  - Awww, you're such a martyr for decency. Why don't you go there and ask them? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:25 7
    - Seriously Bery, am I that wrong to ask for a little show of faith? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:27 5
      - You're wrong to ask the Internet for it, and you're wrong to listen to Pundits to try and find it. - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:28 4
        
        I'm asking a Quebecker here am I not? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 27, 14:29 2
        
        You're asking one Quebecois to defend all of us, like we're all the same - Guigue Nov 27, 14:39
        
        Hai. This is the Internets. Home of the Rantburger. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:30
        
        (And I really do think that you could make a superb series on your Blog about it) -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:28
    - ... in fact, take an HD camera, and do a roving reporter series on your blog about it. -- nm - Beryllium Nov 27, 14:26
- And if those pundits are just now discovering that Quebec still has a large separatist faction, they should read their own newspaper a little more - Guigue Nov 27, 14:13

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