Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Anglo Betrayal...Et Tu, Couillard?

To all those politicians who claim that it's no big deal for the Quebec National Assembly to produce a unanimous motion decrying bilingual greetings, I wish them to imagine Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario, rising in Parliament to decry the fact that too much French is used on the streets and in the stores and restaurants of Ottawa and should, therefore, be discouraged through parliamentary motion because it is an 'irritant.'
Ridiculous, you say..??

I laugh when I hear quislings like Geoff Kelly, Liberal MNA of a predominantly Montreal riding of Jacques-Cartier, characterize the affair as “a tempest in a teapot.”

REALLY? 

Of course, Kelley would like to downplay his betrayal because quite simply, he sold out his constituency along with other Liberal MNAs who represent predominantly Anglo ridings.

For some turncoats, it is to be expected, like the always backstabbing, pretend francophone Kathleen Weil who does a rather effective impression of the infamous Rachel Dolezal, the white women who pretended to be black in order to secure a job with a Black organization.
Like the unfortunate Dolezal, Weil fails to understand that try as she might pretend to be francophone, she will always be considered nothing more than one of 'Les Autres' by the pur et dur.

But for me, the most disappointing turncoat is David Birnbaum, the MNA for the heavily Anglo and Jewish riding of Darcy McGee who also voted for the motion, an act that reminds me of the KAPOs, those Jewish turncoats who brutally supervised fellow prisoners as warders for their Nazi overlords in the concentration camps spread across Eastern Europe in World War Two.

Too much?......I think not.
In Birnbaum, the spirit of self-preservation is more important than the collective good of his constituency and like the Kapos, I bet he'll claim that by siding with the enemy, he can best mitigate the damage to the community by playing both sides.

I wonder whether Mitchell Brownstein, the Mayor of Cote Saint-Luc, Hampstead mayor William Steinberg and federal MNA Anthony Housefather, all members of the tribe and voted in by their largely Jewish and Anglo constituencies will condemn Birnbaum for his insulting betrayal.
Somehow I am betting they will all stay silent, pooh-poohing the affair, too afraid to rock the boat and jeopardize the cozy and incestuous relationship they enjoy with the Liberal party.

And so finally, the Quebec Liberal party, despite its entreaties of love and respect for the anglophone community has laid bare its utter cynicism, throwing us under the bus without much of a fight at the first sign of trouble.
"I would rather people, even an English-speaking Quebecer, just said Bonjour,” Couillard said.
For the Government of Quebec, to call the use of English an 'irritant' is beyond the pale, perhaps a Freudian slip that usually occurs while under the influence or in the heat of a familial argument. The ease at which the slur rolled was made and the non-existent pushback by any politican lays bare the reality of the enmity to which English is held in the National Assembly by ALL PARTIES.

I hope this monumental faux pas comes back to bite the Liberals in the ass, but I remain unconvinced as Anglos have always sighed, put water in their wine and voted Liberal anyways, as the better of all evils.
Nothing would please me more than for the Anglos to finally say enough is enough, that platitudes and false entreaties of respect and love won't cut it anymore.
For us, it isn't a case of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me," because let's be honest, we have been lied to and deceived on an ongoing basis by the Liberals who snicker at our stupidity and gullibility behind our backs.
The Bonjour-Hi affair isn't a trifle, it is, in fact, the latest manifestation by Quebec politicians and their compliant media accomplices to erase the face of English in Quebec while pretending that they respect and value the Anglo presence.
The sad fact is that they want to render us invisible in order to foster the myth that Montreal is a French city, instead of what it really is-- bilingual.
As so the powers that be, want us to be like the Christians in ancient Rome who were forced to practice their religion in secret, underground and out of sight. The reality is that the Quebec Liberals and all the other political parties view us as interlopers who represent a threat, one that must be constantly checked and contained lest we propagate like a plague of household cockroaches.

The Bonjour-Hi parliamentary motion is a continuation of the ongoing effort to eradicate anglophones and English in Quebec, nothing less.

The Premier can blather on about how trivial this affair might be and that Anglos should take the affair in context, but who has a thinner linguistic skin than these same politicians who went collectively apeshit over a pronouncement of a low-level shoe store manager who inadvertently insulted the French majority by expressing himself majorally in English during a news conference.

Holding such primal anti-English views is par for the course in Quebec, where nasty and racist anti-English public pronouncements by those in high places goes without any public reproach because it generally reflects the common Francophone Quebecers views and attitudes.
Being offended by Bonjour-Hi is really about being offended by Anglophones and the English language. Wanting Bonjour-Hi to disappear is wanting the Anglos to disappear, short and simple.
“First thing you have to say, I think, is ‘bonjour.’ It’s about respect, it’s easy to understand.” Pascal Beribé of the PQ
Readers, I am tired of being lectured and hectored about respect by cheap separatist politicians and language fanatics who heap scorn and disrespect on the English, while demanding that we demonstrate undeserved respect on the basis of numbers.
I wonder how separatists would react to being lectured by federal politicians that they owe respect to the Canadian majority and the Canadian cultural mosaic based on nothing more than the numbers. Ha!

Does it matter who we vote for in the next election?
Not on the basis of language, where the other parties are no better than the Liberals.
So who to vote for?

I am reminded of a long-gone family member, an uncle who lived in Philadelphia, a cigar-chomping grouchy old codger who always crowed about voting against the sitting President, Republican or Democrat. According to his logic, all politicians are bums and deserve to be tossed out, even if it means replacing losers with losers.
That attitude may seem to make no real sense, but funny, to me it makes perfect sense.
I will never vote for Phillipe Couillard, David Birnbaum or any Quebec Liberal party candidate.

It's time for a new batch of losers.

7 comments:

  1. If the Liberal, CAQ, QS and even the PQ really want the Anglo vote, here are 2 simple thing to start with. #1 Have a real English debate in the 2018 election and have Maya Johnson or Mutsumi be the debate moderator , instead of having 30 seconds of news video or small interview of saying the Liberals take are votes for granted and to Liberal case pretending to say "We like you.We really do like you. #2 Many of us Anglophone and even allophones would love to see Bill 101 gone forever, but sadly it's never gonna happen. But if they leave it as is " no more new rules and laws ". Many Anglo and allophones would be happy for the most part. We are just tired of seeing new rules within rules within rules. Just simply leave it as is please. If the CAQ can say that and do that, I would guaranteed that CAQ would get over 50%+1 of the Anglo vote.
    I would like to add this is the same party (the CAQ) that wanted to sign Bill 14 ( the new Bill 101 ) when the PQ were in power. We are not like gold fish with a memory of 3 seconds, So saying one thing in English news and media then saying the complete opposite in the French news and media. We are not stupid, we understand French. We want real proof that you want are vote. Because 90% of Anglo still do not trust the CAQ at the word.
    Like the old saying " i believe it when i see it " I remember a old postscript Barry Wilson did in 2012 and 2014. When it comes to the Anglo vote it like picking the lesser evils. The Liberal pretends to like us and only care about our vote. The CAQ constantly tell us the Liberals take are votes for granted ( which they do ) but they keep saying they want to make bill 101 stronger. And the PQ well do I have to go in detail, we all know what they plan is. So the most of us the choice is easy , we rather be like for 1 month every 4 years then be hated every day.
    If the liberals win the next election they have 100 days to help us, if not it the same old story.
    Every day I see people write in and say I never gonna vote liberals again but when it comes Election Day and we have that piece of paper in are hands, 95% of us go back to the liberals because the alternative is worst.
    If the liberals ever keep their word to us Anglo they would of done it years ago like after the 2003 election or the 2008 election or even after the 2014 election. People have moved on on language politics and the whole referendum stuff. It always the same people that bring up the old fight.
    Most of us made are peace, it doesn't matter how good are French is and that we will never be equal to the separatist leaders and people and even to are liberals we are not equal to their eyes. We are not true Quebecers to there eyes. Even if we do are very best to speak french and be apart of "Culture québécoise" . We will always be considered " Les autre "
    So like usual most of us, if not all of us will vote for liberals again even tho we all know what they say to us Anglophone are lies.

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  2. Editor: "For the Premier of Quebec, to call the use of English an 'irritant' is beyond the pale, perhaps a Freudian slip that usually occurs while under the influence or in the heat of a familial argument"

    I am not following this closely but I think it was Lisee who inserted the word 'irritant' into the resolution after some PLQ minister used the word in a tv interview. It seems that Couillard actually insisted that 'irritant' be removed from the resolution and made his support for the resolution dependent on it.

    http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/quebec-politicians-ask-montreal-to-say-goodbye-to-bonjour-hi-greeting

    The final version of the resolution dropped the word “irritant” initially proposed by Lisée to describe “Bonjour-Hi,” the only concession required to win the support of Premier Philippe Couillard and his Liberal government.
    Couillard’s own culture minister, Marie Montpetit, called the bilingual greeting an “irritant” in a television interview last weekend

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  3. How are you going to get a continuously thinning-out crowd of English all together on a single page to convince them to take their chances with another party? Particularly if they already have far too much to lose by standing up and counting themselves?

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  4. Mr. Sauga here: I read this commentary quickly earlier this morning, and I finally have the time to weigh in, so here goes:

    Ohhhhhhhhhh....nooooooooooooooo...[Place a lingering groan of acquiescence here]. A while ago, I put a washer load of clothes into the dryer. After I started the dryer, I pictured the clothes therein being on the dry cycle perpetually. First, they would dry, then they would get scorched and finally they would burn to ashes and the dryer to a molten heap of metal only usable for recycling.

    Good heavens, Philip! Do you honestly think your grouchy American late uncle was onto something? FOR SHAME! I imagine your family came over from some central European country where pogroms and dislocation were the norm à la Fiddler on the Roof.

    More diatribes from three disciples above and I'm sure after I'm through, I'm sure c. will have what to rebut, and maybe Apple II.

    I thought I made the position clear for the minority in at least three comments on the last blog. So let me summarize it again:

    If you keep griping in blogs, on TV or in newspapers, no dayenu*!
    If you keep griping in the media, and continue voting for the Liberals (or any other existing party, no dayenu!
    If you continue voting for the status quo parties, no dayenu.
    If you go back to 1989 and form a new party that adequately represents the minorities, maybe some dayenu.
    If you form another party like in 1989 and enough of you vote for it, maybe some dayenu.
    If you realize that as 20% of the Quebec population paying 40% of the tax base, maybe some dayenu.
    If you realize that paying $1.00 in taxes while the majority is paying only $0.38 to your $1.00, you have the leverage, i.e. more dayenu.
    If you start a Go Fund Me page and start participating in projects to build on that leverage, even more dayenu.
    If you make the effort to bring more and more minorities into the project, more dayenu.
    If you start to consider alternatives like partitioning the West Island and possibly other municipalities in the Greater Montreal Area, more dayenu.
    If you consider other means to be defiant, hold rallies and threaten to take your tax base and benefit only those for whom it's meant to benefit, even more dayenu.

    *"Dayenu" is a Hebrew term that is recited in a particular book during the observance of Passover, and roughly translated it means "It would suffice us".

    Are you now getting the message? It has been 44 years since the so called "federalists" legislated Bill 22, followed by the separatist's Bill 101 and then fine tuned again by so called "federalist" Bills 178, 86, 104 and a host of other bills, and other subsequent separatist bills that surprisingly never passed (like Bill 40, giving the government the right to invade your house or business unannounced looking for "illegal English" (whatever TF that is), Bill 195, the "Identity" bill and I'm sure a host of other bills.

    Get it straight you numpties, nothing, but nothing is going to improve unless you use your leverage and collect drive and ambition for things to change. Whining to your Mommies will do SFA in helping you achieve "equality", respect, or something along those lines, so I have only one thing left to say:

    As a bully would say to his victim: "Y'gonna do somethin' about it, stupid?" Ergo, DON'T JUST SIT THERE AND WHINE, DO SOMETHING!

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  5. Well, Mr. Sauga is spot on as usual, there is little else I can add. Whining and complaining won't add up to much, unless it leads to firm and solid action. Unfortunately all I've seen over the years is inaction, people shrugging their collection shoulders and accepting Quebec's unreality as the norm. It's like being tormented by two bullies, but feel it's OK being physically assaulted and teased if it's the "gentler" of the two bullies who steps in (one punches you in the gut, the other just slaps your face). When will we learn no one has a right to bully us in any manner, it is not acceptable or the norm! And like a real life bully, doing nothing except whine and cry in response to their causing you pain and suffering, will empower them even more.

    Oh, speaking of Barry Wilson of CTV Postscript on CFCF12. Bell Canada just fired him, silencing yet another voice of Anglophone Quebecers. Plus Tommy Schnurmacher from CJAD, whom also spoke out against separatists and the injustices here, just retired yesterday, no doubt before Bell fired him too.

    Wasn't there an attempt to resurrect the Equality party last election? Hell, I'd vote for them over the Liberals, PQ, CAQ or QS. I'd even lend my support.

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  6. The QLP take our vote for granted. The results are elected useless morons, such as Geoff Kelly, who "represent" the anglophone community! Lets face it, the anglophone libs are nothing more than collaborators who are lining their pockets and engaging in nepotism. Example: 1) Geoff Kelley gets his son cushy job as anglo liason in the new ministry headed up by Kathleen Weil. 2) Geoff Kelly is provincial minister of aborginal affairs - A FEDERAL JURISDICTION WHERE THE QUEBEC GOVERNMENT HAS NO REAL POWER.

    We need to create a seperate political party, perhaps loosely aligned with the QLP but seperate!

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  7. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939) had this lovely little narrative card. It might explain a lot: “But Prince John’s reign became even more murderous. Terror spread among the helpless Saxons who knew that resistance meant death. Soon death became preferable to oppression and the defiant oath became more than a thing of words.” Though the last part comes off as a bit inaccurate, the gist of the argument is crystal clear: those who have the most reason to be out there howling are those who can least afford to.

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