"There is no corruption in the Liberal Party .
The Conservative forces are nowhere near Ottawa .
All reports from the Gomery Inquiry are bold fabrications .
The polls you are reading about are nothing but lies ."
Posted on 04/26/2005 10:40:20 AM PDT by GMMAC
LOL. Only for my side of the trade. ;-)
I vote we put them on a slow boat to china in the middle of monsoon season. :-)
We want Alberta for the oil sands. The rest of the plains can come along if they want.
54* 40' or fight!
But what's the down side?
Don't forget the NW territories/Yukon/Nunavut or whatever the hell they call it nowadays.
I say we give 'em Detroit.
None. In fact, it'll be the greatest thing that'll ever happen to Canada.
Maybe Canada would benefit from a "legal separation" prior to a "final divorce".
As a practical matter, this should mean that any province that wants to secede from Canada would have to survive without any subsidy from the rest of Canada for two years.
Oh? What's that?
Quebec NEEDS that subsidy?
Then it's waaaaayyy past time to call Quebec's bluff...
Maybe Canada would benefit from a "legal separation" prior to a "final divorce".
As a practical matter, this should mean that any province that wants to secede from Canada would have to survive without any subsidy from the rest of Canada for two years.
Oh? What's that?
Quebec NEEDS that subsidy?
Then it's waaaaayyy past time to call Quebec's bluff...
Interesting. My dad's family came from France and settled in Nova Scotia; our family got split by the Expulsion (Acadians were given the choice of swearing allegiance to the Crown or leaving). Most of those who left wound up in Louisiana (French-held at the time) and became known as Cajuns because "Acadien" in their accent sounds like "Cajun" to an anglo. To this day everyone in North America with my surname can be traced back to the same couple in Nova Scotia.
A fifth-generation Nova Scotian is a newcomer ;-)
In New York they have the Rabbinical Courts.
British Columbia has always been a net 'contributor' (aka loser) until 2000, when the NDP government kept them in a recession when the rest of North America was booming. Only now have they recovered, and they are almost back to being thieved upon by the Feds like Ontario and Alberta.
Saskatchewan will also become a net loser once the calculations are redone to accomodate resources. Notice the governments of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are trying to get off welfare with the Atlantic Accord, which has become nothing more than a political football...
Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have done nothing even try to get off welfare. The territories have almost no way to get off it right now as they have too few powers.
The subsidies are entirely the fault of the federal governments in trying (and failing miserably) to calm down the separatists and buy votes in Quebec.
That's his shameful legacy. It should not matter if they speak English or French (or Chinese, or Spanish, etc.), that should never be a job issue.
Canada basically has one official language: French. It is despite the fact that less than 20% of the population speaks French (and outside Quebec, more speak Chinese than French!)
The 1980 vote was a landslide, but the one in '95 was a true squeaker: 50.56% No, 49.44% Yes.
More like 84°40' or fight!
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