Tell USA & Outsiders About PQ-Bloc-NDP Pro-Discrimination, Pro-Terrorism

I'm writing this one in English because it seems it usually takes outsiders looking in, especially internationally, to restrain worst, recurring, instincts of PQ & Associates, including NDP (Any NDP-linked ROC-Left should seriously reconsider their party affiliation, if their supposed principles mean anything). Someone should remind the Americans about who and what exactly that nice Mr. Duceppe supports. And it sort of shocks me how off the rails the PQ has gone, and their supporters (like the NDP) and how little coverage this gets outside QC, outside Canada. All my life it has amazed me how the same people who profess such progressive views about geo-political situations the world over, in QC, then turn around and support terrorism, extremism, and repression of basic rights, a repression opposed by a good majority of the QC population again and again, in poll after poll.

Marois' unhinged screaming diminishing her fellow citizens is the least of it. The PQ has gone WAAY over the top, dangerously so, as we'll see. The PQ wanted the PLQ Government to use the notwithstanding clause to override the Supreme Court's fairminded ruling on access to private English schools. Having blocked as much as possible the Government's legislation, the PQ now denounce the use of closure, needed to respect the Supreme Court deadline. Obviously, if they were of good faith, the PQ would realise they couldn't in good conscience complain about closure, having done all they could to make it necessary (though the PLQ has not managed its legislative agenda as well as it might, either). But this is not entirely unprecedented parliamentarianism. However, the PQ rhetoric and illogic are getting dangerous, if one cares about QC as a whole, above and beyond any single consideration. Some quotes, to give an idea: Curzi «aplaventrisme», Marois "le gouvernement a «fait son lit sous la pression du lobby anglophone»", Péquiste «se mettre à genoux devant une Cour suprême qui n'a aucune légitimité au Québec», Curzi again «l'équivalent de la Loi des mesures de guerre sur la scène parlementaire», and a revealing phrase by Marois «Que l'on soit francophone ou immigrant...», as noted by a first generation francophone immigrant reporter.

So, screaming incoherently, the PQ is accusing the PLQ of being sellouts to anglos, of having completely rolled over to please Others, that using closure, forced by the PQ mind you, is like using the War Measures Act, that the Government has gone down on its knees before the Illegitimate Supreme Court, screaming QCers are a minor people, and in Marois' words, distinguishing between immigrants and francophones. Nice. All wrong of course, the people who most want access to English schooling are the French middle classes, the PQ forced the use of closure, which they used innumerable times themselves when in power, the War Measures Act is ever so slightly more serious, the Supreme Court is considered far more legitimate than almost any other institution in QC (as opposed to MNAs), QCers are neither greater nor lesser than any other bunch but understanding that makes one pretty great, which Marois is not, and QC's chosen immigrants are mostly francophone, and those who aren't, and who stay in QC, mostly see their children become mostly francophone within a generation...and that being so, and having acceded to the middle classes, they are among those who feel that basic linguistic education rights should be respected. And Maltais, sleazy as always, is going around saying that using the notwithstanding clause is no repression of rights, as it's in "Trudeau's constitution", which is a curious way to interpret how it came into existence, and its purpose and use, given its five-year limit, and, umm, the title kind of gives it away "nonobstant - notwithstanding", eh?

But while political observers, inured to PQ excess, may find all this typically sad, bad games, they should pay attention to the PQ's new-found friends, and the dangers of such language by supposed responsible leaders. You may know it is sick games, people, the people, do not, necessarily. And when you use such language and then consort with violent extremists and terrorists, as the PQ, Bloc and NDP are, very bad things can happen.

Don Macpherson has written several stories on this worrying rapprochement between the PQ and extremists hitherto rejected by half-responsible leaders like Bouchard & Lévesque, a coalition of extremism of which the NDP has made itself a part. Few other reporters in QC have followed this story as closely, his QC colleagues perhaps uncomfortable with pointing out how friends are behaving? And there are those whose behaviour is based in determined naivete, and who refuse to recognise who they are dealing with, as occasionally gets pointed out.

So it is that Curzi, always the most unhinged, shameful and shameless of actors (God, thespians really are a blight on our body politic, all across the country, aren't they? Poncey Airheadism is dangerous, for real people, in the real world), knowingly invoked closure as being equivalent to the War Measures Act. There is something very unhealthy in the air, encouraged by the PQ, and more than ever, the PQ needs Prozac (& Curzi needs to leave politics).

You can tell the difference between the two sides by their behaviour this past weekend, one which melodramatically unveiled a monument to the victims of the October Crisis...the unfairly emprisoned of course, silly, and not Cross & Laporte (the only one to mention those two was Ménard, usually a decent guy, who made a mistake attending, I think) while the other quietly unveiled a dignified monument to Pierre Laporte in St-Lambert.

Nowadays, Bernard Drainville, ex-Radio Canada (CBC) journalist, shining light of the PQ, thinks it's OK to support, financially and in all other ways, an absolutely vicious campaign targetting the legitimacy of the democratically elected government (no refusal of an Order of Parliament here) by an ex FLQ member, who has been found guilty of bombing and helping to kill two people, and who as recently as 2001 was found guilty of firebombing Second Cup cafes.

But that's not all, folks! Just as Bouchard, Macpherson, Pratte, I and a few others kept warning, this dangerously paranoid behaviour, free of facts or context, has also got the PQ & Bloc friends again with the lovely RRQ (to be fair, the RRQ are also the NDP's friends, as
previously noted - TOT (NDP) Supports Violent Goon Bigots):

RRQ

Le PQ a par ailleurs cautionné bien des rassemblements du RRQ, le Réseau de résistance du Québécois, qu'avait pourtant répudié Pauline Marois en février 2009. Le groupe que dirige Patrick Bourgeois avait incité les citoyens de Québec à faire un mauvais parti aux participants à la reconstitution de la bataille des plaines d'Abraham, activité organisée par le parc fédéral pour souligner le 400e anniversaire de Québec. Mme Marois avait alors annoncé que le PQ coupait les vivres au RRQ en cessant de le financer par l'entremise de la publicité.

Le RRQ est le groupe qui a manifesté bruyamment dans les banquettes des visiteurs à l'Assemblée nationale, le 23 septembre dernier. Le groupe fait aussi partie de la coalition contre le projet de loi 103 sur les écoles passerelles, dont l'adoption va nécessiter aujourd'hui la convocation exceptionnelle des députés de l'Assemblée nationale.

Une réunion de financement du RRQ, le 2 octobre dernier à Sherbrooke, a pu compter sur la présence des députés bloquistes Serge Cardin et de l'élu péquiste Étienne-Alexis Boucher.

Someone should tell the USA & others that notwithstanding that nice Mr. Duceppe, the Bloc is supporting violent extremists and terrorists. Then again I wouldn't want Bernard Landry to respond in his reasonable moderate way, and, say, pick on some poor, innocent young hispanic front desk clerk at a hotel and verbally abuse her, deny it, lie about it, and only when video evidence is threatened, make a non-apology apology. Of course, this is the right and proper way to do politics - in QC it means you become Minister of Finance and then Premier. So maybe Drainville, Curzi, and Agnès "liaisses de billets dans l'Assemblée nationale" Maltais are on the right track after all. Sure maybe all this FLQ revisionism recently (all an evil federalist plot), and tears for the emprisoned but not the murdered and tortured, and cozying up to violent radicals, and dangerously excessive language, sure maybe it will encourage even more crazies and more violence, and division between, in Marois' words, immigrants and francophones, not to mention those awful anglos, but hey, it's all worth it to rise up the greasy pole, for the PQ to gain power and the Bloc to gain seats...

Tabernac! On se souvient, encore une fois, pourquoi tant de jeunes fédéralistes le sont. Comme ils le répètent, « c'est pas tant que je suis fédéraliste, c'est plutôt que je suis anti-souverainiste. Les souverainistes sont insupportables ». Natch.