You would have liked give a great opportunity, Gilles Duceppe, to appear white knight defense of Quebec that you could not do otherwise, yet I do not support the Bloc!
It proves, at least, that you misunderstand the concept of two solitudes, as well as the language crisis raging on the island of Montreal and its suburbs on the island of Laval, to say nothing of our history !
Maxime Bernier is not the fool that we are told, says sociologist Mathieu Bock-Côté! It is, rather, a politician who works hard to undo most of the consensus that are inherited from the Quiet Revolution! The logic behind his reasoning, we know: it is the libertarian philosophy is based on a vision that is minimalist state, the right to choose the person becoming, well, the only horizon is a legitimate public action!
The libertarian right has for some time focused on critical socio-economic development of Quebec model, it has accused of hindering economic prosperity! His conviction Quebec model overflows Now, on another aspect of the legacy "statist" the Quiet Revolution: the language laws! This rejection is accompanied by a disqualification that is more generalized to the national question!
The thing is revealing, because the libertarian ideology, in its expression which is the most popular seems, now, take root among us, in a condition that is singular: self-contempt that has long represented dark side of French-Canadian culture! This pathology is reactive, today, through a desire for Americanization, that is, in particular, identifiable in the radio in the city of Quebec, where Quebec's culture is generally equated with mediocrity!
is what I have called elsewhere "the emancipation of English"! We dream to speak English "without an accent," although we do not know where is spoken in the world, this English without an accent, to better mask from Quebec who is perceived as shameful, and thus is dissolve in a culture that is believed to top! We dream, especially, dissolution of particularism Historic Quebec in the North American environment! At best, the difference is relativized Quebec! At worst, it denigrates the difference!
In neither case, does not assume this difference and can be heard, much less to recognize a scope which is the founder!
Quebec culture is presented as a framework that is suffocating and that should be overcome! It is thus that we can understand the claims that are, increasingly, pressing for the bilingualism of the younger generation! The desire anglicized is more or less, ranked among the fundamental rights!
Libertarianism covers, and a desire that is, more or less avowed cultural disaffiliation! The new right ends, thus, compete with multicultural left, to the deconstruction of the Quebec identity! This
expatriate mental, however, the bearer of a paradox, because the new right that libertarians cling, without being the only component found, through this Americanness is claimed, the old bottom of the Western identity of Quebec, which has been obscured, the quiet revolution that has often been tempted to reduce Quebec's identity in its sole Francophone dimension!
Its leaders began thus to hold a speech on "Western values" of Quebec, and rehabilitate the issue of "Western morality", which is obviously bound to be negligible, by multiculturalism ambient, for which "living together" is not enough of the great principles that are contained in the Charters of Rights!
The New Right tries thus to the criticism of reasonable accommodations! She succeeds thereby to capture a dimension of the Quebec identity that is often overlooked by his defenders that are more formal, which are associated with the sovereignty movement and are an exclusive attachment to the French, ignoring the historical background in which he rooted!
One could even say that the new right takes the more the question of reasonable accommodation that it abandons the defense of French!
can risk a strong hypothesis: the politics of identity that is unique to the new right is perhaps the distorted echo of a cultural crisis which is, increasingly, easily recognizable, even within the francophone majority! Today, it is less English than multiculturalism that Quebecers worried! This is probably why the issues are related to secularism, the Catholic heritage and mores of Western Quebec mobilize further opinion that the future of French!
It should, however, not delude ourselves: the substrate western Quebec's identity, which wants to return the new right is inseparable from the French, who is not a "communication tool", among many others! Quebecers are neither Slovenes, or Germans, or Americans!
All are, however, Westerners! French is his character that particularize the Western identity of Quebeckers and that his defense that characterizes the fabric of our national history, in its deepest dimensions!
Dissociated, the French language and the substrate western Quebec identity poorer, respectively! Language, without culture, no more future that culture, not language!
It proves, at least, that you misunderstand the concept of two solitudes, as well as the language crisis raging on the island of Montreal and its suburbs on the island of Laval, to say nothing of our history !
Maxime Bernier is not the fool that we are told, says sociologist Mathieu Bock-Côté! It is, rather, a politician who works hard to undo most of the consensus that are inherited from the Quiet Revolution! The logic behind his reasoning, we know: it is the libertarian philosophy is based on a vision that is minimalist state, the right to choose the person becoming, well, the only horizon is a legitimate public action!
The libertarian right has for some time focused on critical socio-economic development of Quebec model, it has accused of hindering economic prosperity! His conviction Quebec model overflows Now, on another aspect of the legacy "statist" the Quiet Revolution: the language laws! This rejection is accompanied by a disqualification that is more generalized to the national question!
The thing is revealing, because the libertarian ideology, in its expression which is the most popular seems, now, take root among us, in a condition that is singular: self-contempt that has long represented dark side of French-Canadian culture! This pathology is reactive, today, through a desire for Americanization, that is, in particular, identifiable in the radio in the city of Quebec, where Quebec's culture is generally equated with mediocrity!
is what I have called elsewhere "the emancipation of English"! We dream to speak English "without an accent," although we do not know where is spoken in the world, this English without an accent, to better mask from Quebec who is perceived as shameful, and thus is dissolve in a culture that is believed to top! We dream, especially, dissolution of particularism Historic Quebec in the North American environment! At best, the difference is relativized Quebec! At worst, it denigrates the difference!
In neither case, does not assume this difference and can be heard, much less to recognize a scope which is the founder!
Quebec culture is presented as a framework that is suffocating and that should be overcome! It is thus that we can understand the claims that are, increasingly, pressing for the bilingualism of the younger generation! The desire anglicized is more or less, ranked among the fundamental rights!
Libertarianism covers, and a desire that is, more or less avowed cultural disaffiliation! The new right ends, thus, compete with multicultural left, to the deconstruction of the Quebec identity! This
expatriate mental, however, the bearer of a paradox, because the new right that libertarians cling, without being the only component found, through this Americanness is claimed, the old bottom of the Western identity of Quebec, which has been obscured, the quiet revolution that has often been tempted to reduce Quebec's identity in its sole Francophone dimension!
Its leaders began thus to hold a speech on "Western values" of Quebec, and rehabilitate the issue of "Western morality", which is obviously bound to be negligible, by multiculturalism ambient, for which "living together" is not enough of the great principles that are contained in the Charters of Rights!
The New Right tries thus to the criticism of reasonable accommodations! She succeeds thereby to capture a dimension of the Quebec identity that is often overlooked by his defenders that are more formal, which are associated with the sovereignty movement and are an exclusive attachment to the French, ignoring the historical background in which he rooted!
One could even say that the new right takes the more the question of reasonable accommodation that it abandons the defense of French!
can risk a strong hypothesis: the politics of identity that is unique to the new right is perhaps the distorted echo of a cultural crisis which is, increasingly, easily recognizable, even within the francophone majority! Today, it is less English than multiculturalism that Quebecers worried! This is probably why the issues are related to secularism, the Catholic heritage and mores of Western Quebec mobilize further opinion that the future of French!
It should, however, not delude ourselves: the substrate western Quebec's identity, which wants to return the new right is inseparable from the French, who is not a "communication tool", among many others! Quebecers are neither Slovenes, or Germans, or Americans!
All are, however, Westerners! French is his character that particularize the Western identity of Quebeckers and that his defense that characterizes the fabric of our national history, in its deepest dimensions!
Dissociated, the French language and the substrate western Quebec identity poorer, respectively! Language, without culture, no more future that culture, not language!
If this trend continues, we can easily predict the result: Quebec would become a no man's land of identity, which would gradually deserted by a growing number of citizens who do not want more change in a society that is culturally anemic and broke once too many, his legacy!
Without his French identity, Quebec will become an anonymous regionalism, among others, in American markets !
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Without his French identity, Quebec will become an anonymous regionalism, among others, in American markets !
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According to a Leger Marketing Le Devoir, 61% of Quebecers cons tax cuts for businesses ! Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff make good milage on it, in order to make promises in areas of provincial jurisdiction, such as daycare, caregivers and education , but even so, as so aptly economist Claude Picher, he evacuated, and several things!
If you look at the statements by the Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, says Claude Picher, the Harper government risk not survive the filing of its next budget, next month! Mr. Ignatieff seems determined to bring down the government on the issue of corporate taxes!
recall briefly what it is! When the Conservatives were elected in 2006, the federal tax rate on corporate income was 19%! This rate has not budged for three years! In his February 2009 budget, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced that the said rates will be lowered to 18% from 1 January 2010! The following year, in his budget March 2010, it announced two cuts, or 16.5%, by 1 January 2011, then to 15%, a year later!
On paper, each percentage point represents a shortfall, approximately $ 1 billion for the government! But there is one point which is important: we speak here of the general rate of tax is one that applies to all companies! It is, therefore, no way, just to make a gift to "big" companies, as is an opinion which is widely portrayed, especially by the NDP! Mr. Ignatieff promises, if he is elected, the next Elections to cancel the tax cuts!
At first glance, it's obviously a workhorse that is likely to be popular! He did not find many people to feel sorry for the fate of companies! Yet when we look, more closely, the Liberal promise is inconsistent, it is irresponsible and it is empty of meaning!
It is, first, incoherent, because it goes exactly in the direction which is otherwise tax policies that were implemented by the Liberals when they were in power! Paul Martin, Minister of Finance at the time, was firmly convinced that cuts corporate taxes had more advantages than disadvantages!
From 2000, when its flexibility has allowed him, Mr. Martin has announced no less than five successive reductions in corporate taxes, which rose, and from 28% to 19% in six years! The promise of Mr. Ignatieff is, therefore, for the Liberals, a volte-face that is hard to understand!
Then the tax rate is one factor, among many others that affect budget revenues coming from corporations! We have just seen: the rate increased from 19% to 18% on 1 January 2010! However, during the first eight months of the year is underway, that is to say from April 2010 to November 2010, or the latest figures available, the corporate tax has reported 14.4 billion $ in Ottawa, compared to $ 12.7 billion for the period corresponding to 2009, an increase of 13%!
If incomes rise at the same time as the tax decrease, because the economic situation improves, as employment increases, since it has created 327,000 jobs in Canada for a year, as consumer confidence, as companies increase sales, etc..! Yet it is precisely that the taxes are high impede job creation! Since 2000, the year the corporate tax rate was almost twice as high as now, the Canadian economy created 2.5 million jobs!
While we can not attribute all these new jobs to tax cuts that were made to businesses, but they certainly have taken one part that is important! Thus, the government recovers easily, the shortfall resulting from tax cuts for corporations! In this sense that Paul Martin, in time, saw more advantages than disadvantages! Back, in this case, as suggested by Michael Ignatieff, is irresponsible!
Finally, its promise is meaningless, because it ignores a reality that is very simple: in our tax system, only individuals, like you and I pay taxes! !
Certainly, companies, who are people Corporations are paying, too, of the tax, but they pass on, inevitably, to individuals!
Suppose for a moment that Mr. Ignatieff is elected and he fulfills his promise immediately, the business tax bill will increase! You are an entrepreneur: what do you do?? You can consider this tax increase as a new expenditure and, thus, adjust your price accordingly! In this case, it is consumers, is to tell your clients, who pay taxes!
You can also reduce your expenses, either by compressing wages or reducing hiring, or by restricting your supplies! In these cases, it is workers, your employees and your suppliers' employees, who will suffer! You can also do nothing of all this, and thus to assume the invoice by the company! In this case, it is the shareholders who pay taxes!
is why governments, not just federal but also the provinces are in the same direction! In their recent budgets, Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and New Brunswick have all announced cuts in corporate taxes! In that context, the new battle cry of Michael Ignatieff appears to be, singularly preposterous !
Related link where you will learn, in addition, that to balance the budget of Canada in the 1990s, Paul Martin did not increase taxes for the rich and less corporate taxes! ! What he did to get there, is that it has reduced the size of government! That is how Canada has been able to tame its debt, to avoid the worst scenarios in the 1990s !
Then the tax rate is one factor, among many others that affect budget revenues coming from corporations! We have just seen: the rate increased from 19% to 18% on 1 January 2010! However, during the first eight months of the year is underway, that is to say from April 2010 to November 2010, or the latest figures available, the corporate tax has reported 14.4 billion $ in Ottawa, compared to $ 12.7 billion for the period corresponding to 2009, an increase of 13%!
If incomes rise at the same time as the tax decrease, because the economic situation improves, as employment increases, since it has created 327,000 jobs in Canada for a year, as consumer confidence, as companies increase sales, etc..! Yet it is precisely that the taxes are high impede job creation! Since 2000, the year the corporate tax rate was almost twice as high as now, the Canadian economy created 2.5 million jobs!
While we can not attribute all these new jobs to tax cuts that were made to businesses, but they certainly have taken one part that is important! Thus, the government recovers easily, the shortfall resulting from tax cuts for corporations! In this sense that Paul Martin, in time, saw more advantages than disadvantages! Back, in this case, as suggested by Michael Ignatieff, is irresponsible!
Finally, its promise is meaningless, because it ignores a reality that is very simple: in our tax system, only individuals, like you and I pay taxes! !
Certainly, companies, who are people Corporations are paying, too, of the tax, but they pass on, inevitably, to individuals!
Suppose for a moment that Mr. Ignatieff is elected and he fulfills his promise immediately, the business tax bill will increase! You are an entrepreneur: what do you do?? You can consider this tax increase as a new expenditure and, thus, adjust your price accordingly! In this case, it is consumers, is to tell your clients, who pay taxes!
You can also reduce your expenses, either by compressing wages or reducing hiring, or by restricting your supplies! In these cases, it is workers, your employees and your suppliers' employees, who will suffer! You can also do nothing of all this, and thus to assume the invoice by the company! In this case, it is the shareholders who pay taxes!
is why governments, not just federal but also the provinces are in the same direction! In their recent budgets, Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba and New Brunswick have all announced cuts in corporate taxes! In that context, the new battle cry of Michael Ignatieff appears to be, singularly preposterous !
Related link where you will learn, in addition, that to balance the budget of Canada in the 1990s, Paul Martin did not increase taxes for the rich and less corporate taxes! ! What he did to get there, is that it has reduced the size of government! That is how Canada has been able to tame its debt, to avoid the worst scenarios in the 1990s !
Here is a great text by Pierre Simard, a professor at ENAP!
Finance Minister of Quebec, very pleased Raymond Bachand, appeals to the solidarity of all Quebecers: the tax sovereignty of Quebec would be threatened by the Government of Canada! I do not know if it is to make a diversion, as we approach the next budget, but I feel good that our Minister of Finance is trying to excite Nationalist my fiber! Sorry, but I do not vibrate !
For several months, Quebec requires compensation of $ 2.2 billion, to harmonize its PST to the GST! One rumor is that Ottawa is prepared to acquiesce in the condition to retrieve the responsibility for this collection! Quebec's response is, therefore, the following: our fiscal sovereignty is not negotiable! In short, our politicians have a vision which is harmonious taxes only if they exercise their sovereignty, this harmony, where the quarrel there is between collectors !
But we talk about sovereignty, exactly, then, huh?? It is fine to want to sell me the idea that fiscal autonomy is a symbol and that our government does well, as preserving the common good, I remain, however, a tax and incorrigible skeptic, because it whether federal, provincial or whether it is municipal tax is a tax, regardless of who takes the !
To be honest, this is not the autonomy of our governments that moves me: it's mine! In a province where it was not until mid-June to get rid of taxes and taxes of all kinds, it is difficult to shed a tear on the intergovernmental struggles on the tax sovereignty !
25 years ago, economists Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, who will win the Nobel Prize in economics in 1986, maintained that our governments have only one ambition: to maximize their earnings! There are, again, a nice illustration: the harmony of collectors, if realized, will, anyway, the Quebec government to increase its PST to recover, taxpayers, the recent decrease in GST and thereby offset its losses come from "tax on tax" that takes us for decades!
What, then, is the logic?? It is neutral to the taxpayer! Hum! It was really thinking, right?? When two thugs argue, for loot is neutral for the victim !
Today, the level of taxes represents almost half of that population produces and what it earns! Quebecers are among the peoples who are the most taxed in North America! I just wrap myself in fleurdelysÚs, my pride to be a Quebecer is lean, if I only have the choice of the executioner! My pride will intensify, just when we be more respectful of my independence, my freedom and my personal preferences!
If the tax harmonization mingled with my own sovereignty and whether the $ 2.2 billion to be recovered from the federal government led to a decrease in taxes, I am an ardent supporter of fiscal autonomy! But meanwhile, I have the unpleasant impression that this dispute is, essentially, to exchange the spoils of taxpayers !
Alongside this epic autonomy, our valiant finance minister said, last year, that the important thing is not a balanced budget, but rather to be happy as people! I feel he devoted himself, body and soul!
It endorsed the irony of the French intellectual of the nineteenth century, Frederic Bastiat, who said: "I will try to satisfy you, but for that, I need some resources! I have prepared projects for five or six taxes are taxes that are newest and most benign of the world! You see what a pleasure it was to pay !!!»!!!
Altruistic, I gladly let that pleasure to others !
CSQ attempts to silence bloggers blog Analysts because they dare to attack the left! These bloggers are, as everyone knows, the sympathizers of the Freedom Network-Quebec, a favorite target of unions since this movement advocates the right of freedom of association, is the choice for everyone, to organize or not !
So they advocate the abolition of the Rand Formula, which is an idea that is welcome in a province that does not recognize the union democracy, whether a certification is made with democratic a secret ballot by the recognition of freedom of association and non-free contribution to the union!
Quebec stands apart, and unless there is proof to the contrary, I do not know any country that speaks to copy the Quebec model !
I remind you that, U.S. states that recognize freedom of association have been less affected by economic recession, both in terms of economic growth that in terms of unemployment that States that do not recognize this fundamental freedom !
During that time, Quebec City, we debate, to strengthen the provisions of the law against replacement workers, then we should rather discuss the abolition of the archaic measure ! After all, if employees who are off work have the right to open their own newspaper, the boss should he also have the right to run his business !
In Canada, only Quebec and British Columbia have laws that prohibit replacement workers! We see what happens !
But, hey, back on this part of the multipllilet, what is unacceptable is that the CSQ uses the money its union to carry out its ideological battle! They asked the opinion of their members, before the attack?? Of course not! The unions always do: they are involved in all sorts of international issues which have a social connotation, without the consent of their members! Yet this is not why we give them money!
It will cost, surely, dear, this lawsuit, but the unions are very rich, they pick up, about $ 800 million a year in contributions of all kinds, while the bloggers themselves, never have a fucking red cent in their pockets!
It is, therefore, clearly a SLAPP suit, whose sole purpose is to silence those who dare speak against the "union values"!
Here, therefore, the remarks that are defamatory and are hateful, according Réjean Parent, about what was said on the blog The Analysts!
Thus, January 30, 2011, Reynald Du Berger criticized the left in Quebec, taking the following remarks: "[...] was too much leftist sissy! Have you noticed that in Quebec, and it was remarkably well represented, 23 October 2010, at the Freedom Network Conference, Quebec, right, and it is young men, and the left is composed of men who are old and are feminized and old women !!!»!!!
While a blogger (note JLP: lutopium, who else??) Asks him if he is aware of the scope of his remarks, another blogger, an activist of the line is named Sebastiani, is to the defense of the former professor of UQAC, as follows: "And yes, the majority of union members are women, and feminized collectivists who like discrimination "negative" against men and against white people! As baby boomers begin retiring all, about 80% of all state employees will be women or immigrant women, and although there are already about 64% of the positions are occupied by women, discrimination, which nothing positive, continues to apply for some 700,000 government employees! I'm sick of "your" hypocrisy, "YOUR" propaganda and "YOUR" blank reactions that are offended! The backlash against "YOUR" follies (union / collectivist / etc.) will be terrible! It might be time to stop pretending that "everything is fine", not ???»!!!
Another blogger who calls himself Papajohn adds that it is "not for nothing that vasectomy is so popular in Quebec! Long ago that women have understood that to have the company they want nothing better than a big cat who is neutered! It remains that we are surrounded by sissy and irresponsible and it's not for nothing that nothing moves !!!»!!!
Moreover, Reynald Du Berger, who has taught for over 30 years, UQAC wrote that his experience showed him that "a teacher of 2 should not be taught because the teachers are simply flat and that parents do not care !!!»!!!
I see nothing hateful in there! I see more an observation of reality ! His comments are really hateful, I see every day on various blogs, including this post by Richard Hetu where his leftist wannabes are given away to your heart's content, the daughter of Sarah Palin !
But, of course, the left can attack the right, but the reverse can never be done, otherwise the old fascist demons are back, in the words of the left !
I, myself, was the target of personal attacks that have been a few times, very virulent, from leftists! With Web 2.0, users will think any permit, under cover of anonymity! In most cases, I will pass and I answer, usually, that the insult is the argument of those who no longer! But in cases that are more extreme on my blog, I have the option to censor comments, which fortunately did not arrive until two or three times !
By cons, on other blogs, I was already dealt with creationist and even denial, simply because I put into doubt the assumption of global carbocentriste, while these are very serious charges, however, have already earned, in some people, sentences! Looks like some people do not know the meaning of these terms !
Also, I do not even count all the insults I received after my post on the FFQ !
Alec Castonguay is the parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa for Le Devoir ! Every day, he commented on the news from Parliament Hill, at the microphone of the FM 98.5, during the broadcast of Benedict Dutrizac!
On 2 February, chronicles Alec Castonguay, on the airwaves of FM 98.5, has divided into two segments! Initially, we talked about the visit that Stephen Harper has done in Washington to discuss with Barack Obama, security at the border! In the second part of his chronicle, Alec Castonguay criticized Stephen Harper, because his visit to Washington, was announced on the Twitter account of the Prime Minister!
The reason for this criticism??
Announcing a new, Twitter would be unfair, because only people who frequent social networks can have access to that information! To quote Alec Castonguay, only People who subscribe to Twitter know that Stephen Harper went to Washington!
I hope you are able to see the contradiction in the reasoning of "journalist" Duty!
Alec Castonguay is smart, he knows perfectly that his criticism does not make sense, but when a journalist decides to play politics, by the band, the "common sense" is often the first casualty !
In The News, we also talked about the Twittergate: pure smear against Stephen Harper, what! In this
section point, we say that the use of Twitter by Stephen Harper, has raised concerns, but no mention anywhere that has made these concerns known! Again, it seems that a "journalist" wanted to go, quietly, a gratuitous attack against the Prime Minister!
Then, in the same article criticizes Stephen Harper, to refer customers to their account, the site of the Conservative Party of Canada! However, the Twitter account of Barack Obama did the same thing! When Obama uses Twitter is a social networking genius! When Harper is using Twitter, we speaks of threats to democracy !
Stephen Harper uses two Twitter accounts: one in English and one French ! For several months, Stephen Harper, also used Twitter to comment, in particular, the CRTC's decision regarding the end of Internet packages, and now it's a conspiracy, not to answer questions that his Twitter account refers users to the site of its party, rather than to the Government of Canada and he despises, and the population, no less, one can read in the comments leftists, on the site of the very leftist leftist Radio-Canada!
But I have not read anywhere that the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada abandoned the traditional press releases, media, or it no longer met the representatives of the press! ! This is another controversy that is prefabricated !
In Incidentally, the use of Twitter by Stephen Harper, is no more different than that in the White House are or 10 Downing Street or the Elysee !
Obama blows his nose in a kleenex that has been manufactured in a sweatshop in South America, it helps children in poor countries to earn a living!
Harper did the same thing, it encourages the exploitation of children in developing countries poor night and fair trade!
there still someone not to believe everything that Obama is good, and that Harper is the devil, eh ??
I do not particularly like Stephen Harper, his deficits m'horripilent! But when I see how the media feel compelled to attack him on issues that are too frivolous, I think that the type is probably not that bad !
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