Blah, blah, blah....what's this?
Apr. 7th, 2014 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snowywolfowlSo today is just one of those days at work where you just realize nothing is going to go particularly well. As a result I have to declare this day a complete and total bummer with no chance of anything to smile about.....
...what a minute! What's this? The PQ were defeated in the Quebec election? Quebecers rejected the PQ's ethnically divisive secular charter? Canada is not going to self destruct in the next five years or so? Pauline Marois lost her seat and will step down as the PQ's leader?!?
Oh happy day!
If I wasn't dealing with some torn up knees I'd be dancing in the streets right now. Instead I'm going to dedicate this song from one of my favourite movies to Mrs. Marois:
Mean spirited on my part? Yes! Guilty as charged! In my defence though having lived in a city where riots fueled by ethnic fears actually happened I never liked her take on how to deal with the PQ's "money and the ethnic vote" problem.* It just made the PQ seem small minded, and that's a generous term.
Maybe now Quebec can get back to its constant attempts to get the best deal it can with the federal government, just like the other nine provinces and three territories. :-)
*Former PQ leader and Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau blamed the defeat of the 1995 separation referendum on "money and the ethnic vote". Hopefully this defeat will end this type of ethnically divisive politicking.
...what a minute! What's this? The PQ were defeated in the Quebec election? Quebecers rejected the PQ's ethnically divisive secular charter? Canada is not going to self destruct in the next five years or so? Pauline Marois lost her seat and will step down as the PQ's leader?!?
Oh happy day!
If I wasn't dealing with some torn up knees I'd be dancing in the streets right now. Instead I'm going to dedicate this song from one of my favourite movies to Mrs. Marois:
Mean spirited on my part? Yes! Guilty as charged! In my defence though having lived in a city where riots fueled by ethnic fears actually happened I never liked her take on how to deal with the PQ's "money and the ethnic vote" problem.* It just made the PQ seem small minded, and that's a generous term.
Maybe now Quebec can get back to its constant attempts to get the best deal it can with the federal government, just like the other nine provinces and three territories. :-)
*Former PQ leader and Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau blamed the defeat of the 1995 separation referendum on "money and the ethnic vote". Hopefully this defeat will end this type of ethnically divisive politicking.
