[goldstategop]

A group of Quebecois intellectuals who released a manifesto that proposes, in sum, a Mike Harris style revolution for Quebec that would lead to smaller government, lower taxes, personal responsibility and an acceptance of the need to learn English to allow the province to compete in the 21st Century world. The problem Quebec has it doesn't have enough government; it has too much of it and unless changes are made it will suffer the fate of France even as the number of French speakers in North America continues to decline relative to that of English and Spanish speakers. Without change, Quebec will not be able to offer the same kind of attractiveness to its own people, let alone immigrants or offer the kind of impact it ought to have in North America. At last conservatism or a vision of a conservative nature is finally being offered up there which in many respects is a break from the Quiet Revolution that profoundly changed Quebec society in the 1960s. Its a debate Americans ought to welcome since a more conservative Quebec is not just in Canada's interest but in our own as well.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less

[nikos1121]

How about Quebec being our 51st State?

[leilani]

(sigh) Plus ca change...Quebec's population is declining because Jean-Paul and Marie-Claire can't afford to have more than one kid: all of their income goes to keeping Grandmere et Grandpere cool in their Florida condos, keeping their abysmally inefficient and obscenely expensive health care system afloat plus footing the bill for all the other wonderful social welfare goodies les Quebecoises have been awarding themselves over the years like they were Imelda Marcos with a sackful of krugerrands at a Christian Louboutin boutique. At the rate they're going, Canada won't have a "french problem" much longer, just as Quebec's 'mother country' itself will soon enough be majority muslim, and arabic will be the "lingua franca" on the Champs-Elysees before the Euro-Gallists finally decide to pull their heads out of their derrieres and smell the qahwah .

[Voltage]

the increase in electricity rates be both substantial and progressive.

So electricity rates will be proportational to ones income?

[JohnnyZ]

at the time of writing, Québec’s unemployment rate stood at 8.2%, only 1.4 points higher than Ontario’s 6.8%

Eh .... tres bien, ca.