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On 9 Sep 1996 15:00:32 GMT, jferron@nationalnet.com (Jacques Ferron)
wrote:

>In article <50n2t8$pdr@wpg-01.escape.ca>, jbuchy@escape.ca (Opus) wrote:
>>
>>Please speak for yourself. I for one am GLAD he posted here. The issue
>>at hand is far too important to be preoccupied about where the message
>>is placed. The message must reach as many as possible. Our countrys
>>future may depend on it.
>>
>
>The Qu�bec Government is giving anglophones English-language schools, TV, 
>papers, movie houses, hospitals and government services, which is a heck of a 
>lot more than francophones get in any other province.  Then it asks "But 
>we want you guys to extend us the same courtesy and cool it with the 
>English-only signs, at least in public".  And some nut decides that this is 
>comparable to Auschwitz and the Qu�b�cois are nazis, and posts it for all the
>world to see!

In the first place, it's a flat out lie that Francophones get no
services in other provinces.  In the second place, it is obscenely
patronizing to say that Quebec  is "giving" anything to the
Anglophones, many of whom have been in Quebec for a couple hundred
years.  And, quite frankly, while I'll agree that the Quebecois are
not nazis, the PQ is full of fascists.
>
>Now you come in saying that the country's future DEPENDS on this criminally 
>insane hate literature reaching as many as possible?

Nice choice of words.  Complain to the heavens that the person in
question is engaged in Quebecois-bashing and then spout nonsense about
"hate literature".  When exactly are separatists going to stop whining
and get on with their lives?
>
>Well, if that's what Canada is all about, you can stop wondering why so many 
>Qu�b�cois are saying "Stop that country -- I want to get off"

What Canada is about is tolerance - something you might be able to
figure out had you ever traveled to other parts of Canada.  Try living
in this country.  If the U.S. had ever had to put up with Quebecois
whining and separatism, we'd have dealt with it in a heavy-handed
manner that you can't even imagine.  You're so damn insulated that
you've lost all perspective of what it's like to live in a really
repressive country.

=Bob