Laurier settled the west. His Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, told Parliament:
When I speak of quality I have in mind something that is quite different from what is in the mind of the average writer or speaker upon the question of immigration. I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality.
And so as the twentieth century progressed, we Canadians became the good quality. We have a duty, after the election of November 2, to preserve that good quality in the world. It is no accident that after the results of Nov. 2, Americans, in their despair, instinctively looked north. As the Loyalists did before them, as the slaves did before them, as the dissenters of the 60s did -- they all looked north for the good quality.
We can't let them, we can't let the world, down. We must maintain the good quality of Canada. There's going to be an election within a year in our country. I hope we return the good quality to Parliament, and so send a message to the world -- that, no matter what happens to the south, Canadians will always maintain the good quality.
When I woke up in the morning, I woke up in Canada. Everything was bright and the birds were singing. What a blessing my parents gave me.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
Go figure.
Quebec's own supremem court has rules that Quebec's laws are illegal, and the federal government lets them get away with it.
1. Sign laws?
2. Language police ?
What is this, Hitler's Germany? I guess anglophones don't ahve the right to their own hospitals, and anglophones don't have the right to drive safely on the highway.
Welcome to Quebec--the only legalized racist part of Canada. (and no I don't like playing the race card)
Bob Allen
But no seegar!
it is the fiction of nationalisn and colour of law tied in with an international ruling class who take thie homage via the pocketbook.
Once apon a time there was honour, that was befor this continent got carved up by the HBC, and various other groups with charter(s)
We elect croocks, we have homelessness, and social ills
How realy are we different than those we comdem?
Bill 101 was needed to reestablish the majority rights to operate in their own language due to mistakes of the past. I thought you were for this majority right stuff. I would take a bet with you that a majority of Anglophones in Quebec would agree in 2004 that Bill 101 was the right thing to do.
Do FHQs complain that they do not have "Arręt" on their stop signs? If you are an Anglophone living in Quebec, you should be as bilingual as I am here in BC as a Francophone. It only seems to make sense.
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
2. Quebec is a province in Canada, and Canada's majority language is English. Quebec gets billions from Ontario and Alberta--we should be able to drive safely in Quebec.
3. I think we all know the reason was to make non-francophones less welcome. French in Quebec was in no way in danger of disappearing, and you know this, rationally.
I was trying to state my comments to the article...please try to remember just because you don't share someone else's viewpoint doesn't necessarily mean it isn't also valid, there is no need for us to belittle one another Perturbed, isn't there already enough people in the world being put down?
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
2. And Quebec's majority language is French. Simple. Your logic sounds like the flag logic: people just enjoying to irritate each other.
3. Have you ever lived in Quebec before -or do you know anyone there? Did you ever visit Montreal in the 60s or early 70s? Do you understand what language a new immigrant will pick when there are over 200 millions Englisg speaking people around you (if there are no regulation in place)? Lord Durham tried the hard way and it did not work. The soft way was simply to let demography do its work. 101 was about self-respect, kind like Canadian Sovereingty -vs- US. Can you dig this one better???
Perturbed: I can ensure you that the more people like you the radical fundamentalist separatists can point to in the ROC, the more they are inclined to separate. You have heard about Bush being a top Al-Qaida recruiter. Well the hardcore separatists just luv people like you. Could you be one hiding under this alias? 'cause you are doing a fine job: I am always such a great federalist but when I see your postings, I go right onside with Samuel and Delenda, in spite of our rather significant differences.
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