Of course they would…the PQ and Bloc are increasingly becoming entities without a reason for being…any cause is better than none when your choking and survival is paramount. What do they have left in the pantry??

ABP

It’s the reflex of the looser to always complain about everything. Wasn’t I right to say that Canada has become a nation of whiners????

Prove me wrong.

And to be fair, not that I’m less angry (I should rap about this, I’m rhyming, G) it true that the PQ and the Bloc would love to find a way to make this about language… oui?

The Gazette and only The Gazette tried to sabotage something that was not about language and make it about their antiquated version of a Québécois versus the Others”

I never implied that the Gazette wasn’t to blame, in fact I was explicit in pointing out the opposite. But I think some of the reaction has been a bit too focused on the intent of an anglophone newspaper (a term that is often used) to distort the truth, rather than a criticism of shoddy journalism.

Go visit Vigile.net for a Quebec version of the comments in G&M you refer to. Nobody has an exclusivity on vice nor virtue. To argue that somehow Quebec is more virtuous than ROC or to argue the opposite is a total waste of time and ebergy.

Can’t speak for others but I must say that personally as a francophone I find it quite humiliating that seemingly the only way to have any control over the linguistic and cultural evolution of our nation is through legal coercion (ie Bill 101) or fear/threats (use French with francophones or else they’ll get upset and break up Canada!).

The Gazette and only The Gazette tried to sabotage something that was not about language and make it about their antiquated version of a Québécois versus the Others.

ABP