Canada: still fighting the 100 years’ war
Oh dear. The Toronto papers are allowing a kind of hysteria about Quebec, the National Post’s Barbara Kay saying the sound of English is now an offence and the Globe and Mail running Montrealer Stephen Jarislowsky’s dictum that Quebec is becoming a hermit state. The Gazette also mixes in with the tech sector’s worries about francization.
walkerp 11:00 on 2012/09/29 Permalink
It’s like the rich, pimply loser stalking the hot girl and coming up with all these theories about what’s wrong with her on the inside.
Steve Quilliam 11:17 on 2012/09/29 Permalink
And no wonder why the young generations are not reading these papers anymore but turning towards what they call alternative media. When you can not report accurately the everyday life but rather fantazise about a situation that you would prefer for machiavelic reasons then you start loosing people that are not into your fantasy !
C_Erb 13:15 on 2012/09/29 Permalink
It’s interesting that Kay relegates a large and well-organized political movement with a small but determined militia that enjoyed fairly high public support (until the kidnappings) as “a complete aberration from ordinary, peace-loving Québécois society, a kind of political virus that would pass” but holds up two episodes of minor violence towards a couple anglophones is examples of how the entire city/province is turning, en masse, against the English.
Robert J 16:34 on 2012/09/29 Permalink
+1 walkerp. I’ve been wanting to say that for years.