Tell the National Post where to get off$1:
I have a bunch of friends at the National Post. Some of them are even on the editorial board, where I used to work. I generally avoid taking gratuitous shots; they do what they do, their base likes it, and when you pry the writers away from their editorials they're normally smart and rational people.
This, though, has to be the one of the stupidest and most irresponsible editorials we've seen in this country, which is undoubtedly saying something.
Because a goofy historical re-enactment - possibly the most beside-the-point controversy imaginable in the midst of an economic crisis - was cancelled, the Post's editorialists are basically asking the federal government to reignite the sovereignty movement.
And because the Conservatives didn't win many seats in Quebec in the last campaign, and might win even fewer there next time, those editorialists can't see any reason why our national governing party would want to avoid reigniting the sovereignty movement.
Thankfully, even Stephen Harper isn't that partisan. Granted, the Prime Minister did go slightly in this direction in December, alienating anyone who supports the Bloc Quebecois in order to save his government. But he's probably not going to actively try to tear apart the country in retaliation for low polling numbers - or in retaliation for a bunch of history buffs not being allowed to run around in costumes.
Also cause for thanks is that the National Post is not exactly required reading for francophone Quebecers, so its ability to create the backlash it's so eager for is limited. But that's not to say that the editorial has passed totally unnoticed.
The “official tabloid for the hyper-militant faction of a movement," as Chantal Hebert describes it, is a little harsh. Like I said, I have a lot of friends there, and the vast majority of them couldn't care less about historical re-enactments. But you're begging for that kind of reaction when you run an editorial like this.
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