Posted on 04/26/2005 10:40:20 AM PDT by GMMAC
Breakup of Canada inevitable: Gagliano
(click "Don" Alfonso's surname above to set appropriate "flavor")
NATIONAL POST
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Canadian Press
CREDIT: Dave Sidaway, The Montreal Gazette
Alfonso Gagliano, onetime public works minister
and former ambassador to Denmark.
Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano said Monday that Prime Minister Paul Martin has taken Canada and the federal Liberal party down the road to ruin. "He's going to destroy the party and break up the country,'' Gagliano said during an interview with Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC.
He said Quebec sovereignty is inevitable after the revelations at Justice John Gomery's inquiry into the sponsorship program once headed by Gagliano _ and if the Conservatives replace the minority Liberal government.
"It's a question of time,'' said Gagliano, who was prime minister Jean Chretien's Quebec lieutenant.
"Of course, if (Quebec Liberal Premier Jean) Charest makes a miracle and forms a second government, it could possibly be put off. But I think that at this stage, the separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable. It's a question of time. It's going to happen.''
The Gomery inquiry was ordered by Martin last year after a report by federal auditor general Sheila Fraser found irregularities in the sponsorship program set up under Chretien to promote national unity.
The inquiry has heard that sponsorship money was funnelled to Liberal-friendly ad firms in Quebec in exchange for contributions to the bankrupt Quebec wing of the party.
Gagliano, who was recalled as ambassador to Denmark by Martin, made no apologies for the revelations at the inquiry but denied allegations by former Quebec Liberal organizer Benoit Corbeil that volunteers were paid by the Groupaction Marketing firm.
Gagliano said it was his understanding that the party paid the volunteers.
He also wondered why the sponsorship inquiry did not investigate how Martin financed his own run for the Liberal leadership.
"Certain communications firms that were close to Mr. Martin, Earnscliffe to be exact, took in ... millions of dollars,'' Gagliano said.
He said there was nothing scandalous in the sponsorship program to his knowledge.
© Canadian Press 2005
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"Badda-Boom, Badda-PING!"
Apt.
BTW, has it ever been resolved whether this guy is a "wise guy" or not?
Oil-$$$$$$$$ al-Sharia
/Maurice Strong's U.N. Canada?
Maybe once Canada is devoid of the French Province, then they will return to sanity and be men and women again......
You know, I really need to bookmark that map of all the mosques and Islamic training centers in the US for when folks like you trot out this tired crap.
Send the International Falls, MN PD across the border to occupy key strategic positions in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskathewan.
In our negotiations We can give the Canuckistanis New England and New York, and throw in Seattle so it can be called South Vancouver
Problem(s) solved
Quebec's not going anywhere. They'd cut themselves off from the western provinces moneypit.
Canada has never really been unified anyway. How can something that was not together to begin with "break up?"
:-)
I don't see the muzzies in this country screaming about having Shira law...do you?
Maybe the other provinces would kick the French out........
I'll take British Columbia, Alex, for our 51st state!
The minute our disgruntled lefties move to Canada, Canada breaks up. To be expected.
Canada's ambassador to Denmark. My goodness, the pressure of the job !
My suggestion is trade NYC and New England for all of Canada west of Ontario. Hope that doesn't leave you in the cold. It's easy to move you know if it does.
As I understand it, the law in many parts of the US already allows for parties to a contract to submit to religious-law based arbitration (and that's all that's being discussed in Canada) if both parties agree to it. And it hasn't been decided on here yet, and it looks like the decision may well go against it, thanks to the efforts of Muslim women in this country, among others. But don't let any of that get in the way of the usual Canada-bashing.
No Canuk basher, I.
Actually, that would be the Ontario moneypit, since Ontario is by far the largest net contributor to the federal coffers, and only slightly behind Alberta on a per-capita basis. The other two prarie provinces also suck on the welfare teat, as does BC at times.
Quebec is the biggest net recipient of federal funding, but not on a per-capita basis, where I believe Newfoundland leads, followed closely by the other Atlantic provinces. However that doesn't take into account all the federal gov't jobs that were moved into Hull, PQ, or all the subsidies that go to industries in Quebec.
I will raise you Alberta as the 52nd state. The people in Calgary are more like us than the people of New England.
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