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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:26 pm
 


Warren Kinsella, who's quietly turned into the best columnist working for the SUN/Quebecor papers, calls out the NDP in a way that the CBC, Globe, and Star certainly won't:

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As of Tuesday night, Canadian politics is going to change for the worse — for Conservatives, for Liberals, for independents. But the New Democratic Party won’t give a damn.

As of Tuesday night — and if successive polls are correct - the Parti Quebecois will win power in Quebec. And, as of Tuesday night, separatism (or the threat of it) will once again start to dominate our national agenda and paralyze our politics. The NDP, however, don’t care about that. Because, among other things, the New Democrats have quietly transformed themselves into the successor to the Bloc Quebecois in the House of Commons. The NDP are the separatists’ Trojan Horse in Ottawa.

And that is a development that should concern everyone who cares about Canada.

It’s been a long time in the making. In last year’s federal election, scores of Bloquistes transformed themselves into New Democrats. As QMI’s Jean-Louis Fortin reported many months ago, the separatist vote collapsed in Quebec because the NDP had successfully — and deliberately — cultivated the support of those who wish to break up Canada. As Fortin documented, Alexandre Boulerice, the NDP MP for Montreal’s Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie riding, “proudly confessed to QMI Agency he continues to campaign for Quebec Solidaire, the provincial leftist party that promotes independence.” Meanwhile, former NDP leadership candidate Romeo Saganash, MP for the northern Quebec riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou, also openly supports sovereignty. So does Claude Patry, the NDP representative for the Jonquiere-Alma riding.

The NDP was infiltrated by Quebec separatists about 20 years ago, Fortin noted. Dozens of the New Democrats’ Quebec MPs have supported separatism in the past, or quietly still do so.

There’s a reason for that. The NDP, unlike the Tories and the Grits, has proclaimed a policy that separatists adore. They call it the Sherbrooke Declaration. The Sherbrooke Declaration is the NDP’s official Quebec policy. Among other things, it cynically states that appealling to Quebec separatists is “a cornerstone” of a future NDP government. To do that, the declaration declares, the NDP will re-open the Constitution to grant Quebec special status. This will be done in “the medium term,” whatever that means.

The threat at the centre of the declaration — the threat the NDP pose, quite literally, wherever they hold power or the balance of power — will be seen when there is another referendum on “sovereignty.” The NDP — as defended by Jack Layton and now Thomas Mulcair — will accept that Canada can be broken up with a single vote. Fifty percent plus one. That’s it.

The problem with that, of course, is that it is against the law and common sense. Both the Clarity Act and the Supreme Court of Canada have made clear that there needs to be a clear question, a clear majority and a clean process before the separatists can get what they want.

But the NDP, as noted, don’t give a sweet damn about that. They’ve got the Sherbrooke Declaration, and they’ve got a caucus overflowing with crypto-separatists. As of Tuesday night, none of that is academic anymore. As of Tuesday night, it matters.

The NDP — whether in this week’s Ontario byelections, or in Tuesday night’s Quebec election outcome — are a manifest threat to Canadian unity.



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:36 pm
 


All the more reason to keep them out of power.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 6:47 pm
 


Kinsella is only calling out the NDP because his Liberals need to leapfrog them. He's a strategist and is using the unity angle to drive a wedge to make the Liberals to look like the "unity" party considering the political climate in QC.

I don't always agree with him but have read his blog for the last 6-7 years. He's good at what he does.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 9:29 pm
 


lol. 20 years ago, there were a bunch of Separatists roaming around looking for a Party because the PC's had failed to deliver for them.

This article is Fear Mongering at its' worst.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:08 pm
 


I agree Quebec had its best chance to leave Canada back in 95 I think. Plus now Quebec is so heavily burdened by debt. Overall I want a united Canada as I hope most Canadians do, it would suck to have to pass a border check point to visit Nova Scotia. Given that, perhaps it would be better to force Quebec's hand and not allow them to leave.


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PostPosted: Mon Sep 03, 2012 10:29 pm
 


Apple2010 Apple2010:
I agree Quebec had its best chance to leave Canada back in 95 I think. Plus now Quebec is so heavily burdened by debt. Overall I want a united Canada as I hope most Canadians do, it would suck to have to pass a border check point to visit Nova Scotia. Given that, perhaps it would be better to force Quebec's hand and not allow them to leave.


After Canada partitions Quebec, border checkpoints won't be a problem.


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