Breakup of Canada inevitable: Gagliano (Liberal-Mafia Link Whines "It Was Just Business")

National Post - Canada ^ | Tuesday, April 26, 2005 | Canadian Press

[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

[fanfan]

LOL. Only for my side of the trade. ;-)

[GMMAC]

"Baghdad Dithers" Addresses the Nation:

"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 ."

[processing please hold]

OK. I don't want the Liberals. What can I trade them for?<.i>

I vote we put them on a slow boat to china in the middle of monsoon season. :-)

[CollegeRepublican]

We want Alberta for the oil sands. The rest of the plains can come along if they want.

[Little Pig]

54* 40' or fight!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[T]he separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable. It's a question of time. It's going to happen.

But what's the down side?

[Little Pig]

Don't forget the NW territories/Yukon/Nunavut or whatever the hell they call it nowadays.

[AmishDude]

I say we give 'em Detroit.

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

None. In fact, it'll be the greatest thing that'll ever happen to Canada.

[GMMAC]

" ...What you're saying is treason..."

No! ... here be TREASON:

Canada as you knew it ceased
to be a viable nation in 1982.

Accordingly, I'll be waving my U.S. flag when the Marines eventually arrive in "hot pursuit" of Liberal permitted (and likely publicly financed) foreign terror cells!

[pfony1]

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...

[pfony1]

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...

[HEY4QDEMS]

It probably couldn't win in a province-wide referendum.

True true, I believe it has already been voted on at least once and was defeated handily.

[Squawk 8888]

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.

[Squawk 8888]

I wasn't really a Nova Scotian, though, you aren't unless your family roots there go back at least 4 or 5 generations.

A fifth-generation Nova Scotian is a newcomer ;-)

[Squawk 8888]

In New York they have the Rabbinical Courts.

[Heartofsong83]

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.

[Heartofsong83]

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!)

[jpl]

True true, I believe it has already been voted on at least once and was defeated handily.

The 1980 vote was a landslide, but the one in '95 was a true squeaker: 50.56% No, 49.44% Yes.

[Heartofsong83]

More like 84°40' or fight!