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Originally Posted by painintheass
Personally speaking. I don't want to re-unite with France. I've lived here for 2 years and we are so culturally different now that it would be silly to attempt it. I'm looking forward to returning to my home and I certainly don't want to arrive and find out it has become part of france.
As for the money issues and the province. Well... to be any canadian/canadien/canadienne is to argue about money, wanting more, complaining you don't get your fair share and ultimately blaming Ottawa for any short-commings your province has. So as far as I'm concern the issue will never be resolved. And it's ultimately the reason most of Canada votes politicians out of office instead of in.
Now for the language. Hands down I agree! We have to protect our heritage. BUT... and you knew this was comming. I think we need to force bilingualism down the throat of the entire country.
In my point of view if we are a bilingual county then every citizen of canada better speak both languages. Phase it in at the grade school level. In French Canada you start with French in the morning and english in the afternoon. In English Canada the reverse. Pretty soon, within a generation or so. This entire seperation argument is over. AND it will help to develop a distinctively Canadian Cultural Identity. Not something we borrow from the states.
Lastly, I started this topic not because of Gagliano. But because I was just contemplating my opinions on the issues. A lot has happen to me in my life since the last time the talk of seperation occurred.
And now as we get closer to a federal election with a very weak Liberal Goverment and American Wannabe Harper. I'm left questioning that if I do return 1. will there be a Canada in 5 years 2. Should I vote parti quebecois or toss my support behind the liberals hoping to prop them up.
For Gagliano.... BRING BACK EXECUTION!
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I think you easily dismiss the L'Action Democratique has a party to which you can vote. Personnally Mario Dumont is my guy. I am tired of having the seperation discussion. The vast majority of the older population 30+ don't want it. During the time of Levesque, there was a real plan, a real transition and a real idea behind it...but now it's just a dead end ideology.
I must say that there is no option in the federal. The "Liberaux" are just a band of fucking corrupted clowns. The "Conservateur" have some radical movements in them coming from the Alliance, but Harper doesn't seem to acknowledge them that much (That a good thing i guess). And there is the funny guy of the NPD, a party that was never a full fledge political party.
The Canada is not biligual, and never was. In principle we all should know both tongues, but really...instead of that we use that difference to clinge on our identities and going into our trench. That's why we had the phrase: "Les deux grands silences" "The 2 big silences" in this country. I don't think our culture is that in danger right now. I even think it's overlay protected with the CRTC, that also does the same thing with american content.
Look at it this way. English Canadians are doing things to protect themself against an over abuse of americanisation in their culture. The CRTC is a living proof of that. The quebecers are doing the same regarding canadians, and americans. But because we a small % of french population on the north america continent, the desire to seperate is regarded has a way of protection ultimetally. Their is a latent insecurity to this phenomenon too...
So it's not a simple issue. It one that affect any type of minority within a country, except that we were 2 of the original foundators of that country. And we never forgot about it. And it's also why the yes didn't win, to some respect.