Je réalise que vous êtes probablement sollicités par toutes sortes de groupe pour qui votre nomination a suscité de l'espoir. Je sollicite néanmoins par la présente une entrevue portant sur votre vision du rôle du secteur ONG pour le renouvellement de la Francophonie en milieu minoritaire. Votre participation à une telle entrevue devrait inspirer positivement les bureaucrates de Patrimoine Canadien, du CRTC et de la Société Radio-Canada qui ne bougeront pas autrement. Les politiciens non plus, puisqu'il n'y a pas de votes FHQs. Je tiens à vous signaler que Culture.ca et la SRC pourtant responsables de la promotion de la culture francophone en régions minoritaires ne reconnaissent aucunement le Canard Réincarné et même encore le secteur ONG entier puisqu'il met au défi ses bureaucrates. Par ailleurs, les FHQs n'ont absolument aucune présence Internet à ce jour que ça soit en matière de blogues, de forums Internet ou de nouveaux médias. Et la prochaine génération décroche complètement d'un environnement périmé.
Le Canard Réincarné est seul comme organisme nouveau média ONG à tenter de rejoindre les FHQs et sollicite votre appui. Il essaie à grands efforts de motiver les Francophones Hors-Québec dispersés et mal réseautés à reprendre confiance en eux, à se réintéresser au français en s'y exprimant par écrit, et à se réengager dans leur communauté. Votre support pour l'initiative du Canard Réincarné pourrait faire une grande différence pour l'avenir des FHQs. Il faut nous aider à nous relever après les traumatismes de Riel, de la fermeture légiférée de nos écoles au début du siècle dernier et de notre mise en tutelle plus récemment.
Bien sincèrement,
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Note: manifeste
Stumble It!
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
Reminds me so much now of what Bush did to the Muslim world that had a lot of pent-up anger. Les temps changent et se ressemblent. Read Lester's Black Book translated by Ray Conlogue if you want to understand the franco anger. I could go on myself with the federal government legislated closure of franco parents run school early in the 20th century throughout the ROC (or PET's 1968 buyout of every single FHQs to become a civil servant and live under the bubble). These ones left IMHO a lot more permanent scars than whatever the FLQ did. Hard to turn the page and move on. Isn't it?
Jean is an excellent choice for a GG. Why don't we just give her a chance???
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
If she's a seperatist she doesn't belong there. She should be fired immediately, and Paul Martin deeply chastised. If she is a seperatist, this would be far worse than Adscam, and far more damaging for the liberals.
Personally, I hope she hasn't been tainted and will make a public declaration to clear the air. Her hesitancy is perplexing, and feeding the fire.
G
Have you ever thought that most Québécois are in fact both "federalist" and "separatist"? I know that many people struggle with this concept. Like can you be both "right" and "left" in the political spectrum?
As far as I am concerned, both can work (feds/separatism & left&right) and it all matters of who actually makes these systems work. I would argue that a sovereign mind actually operates that way -vs- a person that has sold out to some great "cause". Look what happens to all these great causes, all hijacked by some special interest groups pretending pureness of the "are you with us or against us?".
The federalists in Quebec have unfortunately been very corrupt for the last twenty years. Any clean persons that came in the ranks got corrupted as sonn as they moved in.
Cela dit, Jean represent this important facet of Québécois mind. Should the RdC reject it, you will play within the realm of the "purs et durs" sovereignists. I personnally do not see much difference in between a pur et dur sovereignist and federalist.
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
Canadians have always engaged with their nation through its regional manifestations. This, inevitably, confuses the more confusable.
G
You won't be able to shove that down people's throat no matter how hard you try. Trudeau tried and it did not work. It in fact backfired when he signed the War Measures's Act. Kind of what Bush tried to do with democracy in the middle East: the battle of the stubborn? Les "purs et durs" love people like you and will debate ad nauseam.
Time to move on with our new GG and wish her well. I certainly did so earlier on.
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
A friend of mine has a saying, which I love: "As Canadian as Canada." The recursive logic in his quote is the space of all nations -- an invention we enter into -- engage with -- or ignore. To ignore a nation is to kill it, for better or for worse. To be proud of a nation is to invest it with something, to fill it with imaginative possibilities (perhaps specific agendas, perhaps just the optimism of unknown potentials), and meaning. To be proud of the nation is to create the nation, and surround one aspect of one's imagination with the collective power it affords.
There is no need to shove any such thing down Her Excellancy's throat -- she has declared her pride, she has declared her dedication to building the nation, alongside the millions of Canadians across the continent who have pledged the same. The Governor General is (now) a position specifically geared towards creating, building, and developing the Canadian nation -- which is why it is entirely inappropriate to have a separatist in the role.
I don't believe that Trudeau is in any way comparable to Bush. The closest American president to Trudeau would have to Lincoln -- and look at how much preferable teh resolution of our civil eruption was to the hundreds of thousands of dead down there.
G
Well look what happened to the First nations being ignored for how many hundreds of years until recently when we realized they owned land rights to vital resources???
Look what happened to the FHQs with this Nation identity thing. They are more or less extinct out west, and more to come according to the Canada-stats. New immigration is not going to beat the trend and neither will "francophilie".
You have made the Nation case extremely well!
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"
G