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Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov

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From: John Connolly
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 00:00
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Michel O. wrote:
> 
> Wes Warner wrote:
> >
> > In message <329DA4FD.488C@baldhead.com> - John Connolly
> > <image@baldhead.com>Thu, 28 Nov 1996 09:43:09 -0500 writes:
> >
> > [snip]
> > >People of good will have always had the upper hand in Quebec.
> >
> > *** I don't think the present PQ government
> >     consist of "people of goodwill".
> >     At least not as I understand those words.
> >     The general public in Quebec are indeed people
> >     of good will, but badly represented.
> >
> > :>Why 2 prime recipients of transfer payments -- Elijah Harper & Clyde Wells
> > :>were allowed to scuttle a low cost initiative to redesign Confederation
> > :>only a forensic sociologist could say.
> >
> > *** I don't think your words above evidence much "good will"
> >     toward two people who acted in good faith, in public,
> >     and in accord with the rules.
> >
> >     The rules for Meech lake ratification were absurd
> >     -- a strong signal as to the quality of the
> >     remainder of the thinking in it.
> >
> > Rene Levesque put it best when
> > :>he reprimanded errant party members with " dissention has run amongst
> > :>us like a rat for 300 years."
> >
> > *** RL did have his share of "good will".
> >     His "us" in the quite above presumably
> >     referred to Quebecers or to all Canadians
> >     and was not an ethnocentric crack at ROC.
> >
> >
> > :>But English Canada can no longer count on this lack of focus. One plan
> > :>to deflate the billowing egos of provincial 'leaders' might be to pick
> > :>a time to jam their phones, faxes & email servers with an indication
> > :>that many Canadians want a resolution to this endless bickering.
> >
> > *** The bickering will end only when it
> >     causes a clear consistent and gradually
> >     increasing penalty.
> >     It will never end if rewarded
> >
> >     Quebec is doing the bickering and
> >     ROC (via fed gov) has been doing the rewarding.
> >      (Although there are promising signs that this
> >       game is no longer working.)
> >     Even still, the Quebec economy is declining
> >     since the public represents itself and acts
> >     in its own interest, unlike its governments.
> 
> Wow.... c'est fantastique vos commentaires mais....
> arr�tez vos charrues.... ici c'est le site CAN.FRANCAIS...
> regardez bien le dernier mot et devinez le sens...
> bien entendu, il y a beaucoup de gens qui n'acceptent pas le fait
> qu'il existe des francophones au Cacanada...
> c'est une infime partie du fait que l'on veut se s�parer...
> faites un effort et essayez de comprendre mon message....
> " Si je postais une lettre en fran�ais � un site anglophone....
>   que se passerait-il? "
> --
> Michel Ouellet

Desole d'avoir pollue votre festival d'intelect avec la lague de la
Bolduc -- nee Mary Travers. Mais la je parle d'un Quebec perdu, un
Quebec qui menait la Nation, un Quebec plus large que le votre.
-- 
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From: John Connolly <image@baldhead.com>
Subject: Re: The Quebec Letter: Galganov
Date: 1996/12/04
Message-ID: <32A581C8.5797@baldhead.com>
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