How could anyone with half a brain take these jokers seriously?
..I am John kerry....who served in Vietnam....reporting for duty.
Posted on 11/23/2006 12:47:31 PM PST by Clive
OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal leadership candidate Michael Ignatieff's on-again, off-again ownership of the Quebec-as-nation push is definitely on again.
Ignatieff, the Liberal MP with the impressive academic credentials, has been alternately embracing and distancing himself from the initiative with dizzying regularity.
Early Wednesday afternoon in a round-table discussion with The Canadian Press, Ignatieff was emphatic that a controversial internal Liberal party resolution to recognize Quebec as a nation was not his idea.
"Just so it's clear, for the 20th time, the (Quebec) resolution was not initiated by the Ignatieff camp," he said. "It was initiated by people who support a range of candidacies."
At that point in the day, the concept was clearly dividing the Liberal caucus and was a potential political liability.
By late Wednesday, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's surprise announcement that he'd introduce a Commons motion to recognize Quebecers as a nation within a united Canada, Ignatieff had begun to change his tune.
"I think it's a good day for Canada," Ignatieff said of the Conservative motion.
"That is to say, I'm proud of the way in which the Liberal party and my candidacy listened to Quebec."
By Thursday morning, Ignatieff was firmly planting his flag in the initiative.
It is just the latest Ignatieff U-turn on the subject.
When the Quebec wing of the Liberal party adopted the nation resolution on Oct. 21, Ignatieff's campaign issued a press release trumpeting his leadership on the issue:
"I was the first to say our party must recognize the fact that Quebecers consider their province as their national home, and that we cannot let the failures of the past forever define our constitutional future," Ignatieff was quoted in the release.
A week later, amid a raging public debate over the potential ramifications of the resolution for the Liberal party, the Ignatieff team began calling reporters with "new massaging."
Credit for the nation notion was to be shared among all the leadership candidates.
Ignatieff had urged caution in Montreal when the Quebec-as-nation resolution was adopted: "It's the first step in a long road, and we have to proceed prudently and wisely."
But Ignatieff - during a Sept. 10 leadership debate in Quebec City - had been the first federal politician in a decade to pry the lid off the constitutional casket.
"Other candidates have said . . . recognizing Quebec as a nation in the Constitution is too difficult," Ignatieff said in his prepared, closing remarks in the Quebec capital. "Yes, it's difficult, but we must do it.
"Otherwise, what alternative are we offering against (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper's status quo and the Bloc's politics of fantasy? I'm not in politics to say that the things we need to do are difficult, but to find solutions."
"I was for Quebec nationhood before I was against it."
Its not going to endear him to both Quebec and English Canada.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
And this makes a difference to whom? Wait until he hears and learns from Howard Dean at the convention. THEN you will hear some talk worth writing down!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I would like to see canada fracture and the eastern and far western provinces join the US as States.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"I would like to see canada fracture and the eastern and far western provinces join the US as States."
Here's one scenario.
Ontario remains as Canada.
The western provinces, which have more in common with their neighboring states to the south than with eastern Canada, join the US.
Quebec becomes French Canada and annexes provinces to her east. These are the natural markets for Quebec and the Atlantic provinces are such economic basket cases, no one else will touch them, neither can they survive independently.
Actually he was using a long standing Liberal tactic of saying one thing in Quebec in French, and another in the rest of Canada in English. For whatever reason the MSM did not give him a pass on it like they usually do.
North America....comprising....the United States....Mexico....Canada.....and Quebec....hmmm.
Interesting.
Indeed, one of Merriam-Webster's definitions of "nation" is "a tribe or federation of tribes."
And the Quebeckers' insistence on remaining apart from the rest of Canada is nothing but tribalism. Why they'd want their province compared to an Indian reservation is beyond me, but so be it.
I just want to know if I'll be able to buy cheap cigarettes there.
Regards, Ivan
How could anyone with half a brain take these jokers seriously?
..I am John kerry....who served in Vietnam....reporting for duty.
Oh, did I forget to indicate "Sarcasm on"? So sorry.
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