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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:38 am
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| 747, Yes Quebec will hold another referendum but this time the question will be clear and fair or Canada will not recognize the result. You know as well as I do that Quebecers would never vote for complete separation from Canada. But dream on.<br /> <br /> Remember that two thirds of the... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:21 pm
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| Yes 747 we are both broken records that keep skipping.<br /> <br /> Si le Canada est divisible, le Quebec doit être divisible aussi" <br /> <br /> THE SUPREME COURT OF CANADA ON QUEBEC SEPARATISM<br /> <br /> The Supreme Court provides federalists with a number of... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:09 pm
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| Partitioning Quebec along the lines of the Jure<br /> <br /> If a Parti Québécois government committed to another referendum was ever elected and the results of said referendum clearly delineated along regional lines, than partition should pervail, but defined by a set of cascading refer... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:55 pm
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| On Canada and Canadians<br /> <br /> In 1996 a United Nations instrument called the Human Development Index (HDI) again ranked Canada as the best country in the world in regard to life expectancy, educational attainment, and income. A 1995 World Bank study named Canada the globe's second... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:44 pm
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| Is partition inevitable? <br /> <br /> <br /> The Quebec partitionist movement has been painted as destructive and malicious by both separatists and moderate federalists alike. Simply put, partitionists argue that if Canada is divisible, then so is Quebec.<br /> <br /> ... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:30 pm
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| Do As I Say Not As I Do<br /> <br /> "Do as I say, not as I do" is a well known admonition that many of us heard as children from tobacco-addicted parents who commanded us to be guided by their wise advice and not by their bad habits. Even though this proved, in retrospect, to have been ... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:13 pm
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| Separatists don't like the word partition<br /> <br /> The notion that the partition thesis encourages separatism does not accord with the facts.<br /> <br /> If there were any validity to that idea, the separatists would have used it way back in 1980.<br /> Not one sep... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 3:02 pm
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| 747, Do you think any country in the world gives a rat's ass what is happening in Quebec. I don't think so. Nor, for the most part do they care what happens in Canada.<br /> <br /> Canada has been rated the number one country in the world to live in by the United Nations a few times and ... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:57 pm
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| "If the rights of self-determination can be claimed by French-speaking Québecois, as being a people defined by language, culture and history, they can be claimed with equal right by others: notably the aboriginal peoples and the English-speaking community. <br /> <br /> So identifiable m... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:38 pm
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| Well excuse me. Being new here I saw Hoser and a number above it. Stupid me, of course I should have know that a person would call himself 747. Yeah, moderator, you got me. |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:32 pm
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| Some areas of Quebec that are in favor of partitioning Quebec if the province ever tried to separate from Canada. <a href="http://Note: these resolutions have no legal implications but do show the resistance to separatism in Quebec.">here</a><br /> <br /> 16 municipalities ad... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:26 pm
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| <u><b>Partition Defined </b></u><br /> <br /> The term Partition must be clearly understood as having three instances: <br /> <br /> The secession of Quebec would partition Canada. In this light, Quebec separatists are partitionists. <br /> <b... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:16 pm
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| Yeah Hoser, throw a tantrum when you hear something you don't want to hear (the truth sometimes does hurt. Separatist behavoir is so predictible.<br /> <br /> You call me a troller, I am not on any separatist sites, you are a separatist why are you trolling a federalist site?<br />... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:50 pm
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| Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I remember calling someone Canuck, I thought it was their online name. Sorry if it offended anyone.<br /> <br /> [QUOTE BY= Dr Caleb] [QUOTE BY= robert] What is this Timbit Canuck shit? I am not calling anyone a Canuck, I don't know where Timbit came from... |
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Forum: Canadian Provincial Politics Topic: PQ's looks to next referendum |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:49 pm
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| Partition: The ultimate separatist terror<br /> <br /> Partition of Québec is, for separatists, -- and, indeed for most Québec nationalists, -- what rats were for Winston Smith in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four: in other words, the ultimate terror. And rightly so. For if Québ... |
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