Oui the People

Love ‘em or not, Quebec has it right … and wrong!

La Belle Province is a clever place …over time they have asserted their rightful sovereignty, and have done so on everyone else’s dime …given the apparently disproportionate levels of federal transfer payments, not to mention other Ottawa given goodies!

In 1976, a newly elected René Levesque and his Parti Quebecois were apprised by an enlightened, long-serving Alberta MP that Quebec was in no way legally bound to Canada. This meant that there need not be any "constitutional wranglings" …especially since Canada has no actual constitution.

Nor was there any need or requirement for Quebec to petition Ottawa, ask its permission to ‘separate or jump through any other such hoops. Quebec, like all other Provinces, had her sovereignty already …signed, guaranteed and on paper ever since 1931! Mr. Levesque chose not to act on that information, and the profitability of the ‘threat of Quebec separation’ has ever since been a financial trump card!

If one really listens to what Quebec separatists are demanding, it comes down to one basic thing …they want the sovereignty and autonomy they (as all provinces) are fully entitled to. Quebec is, however, the only province that has staunchly resisted the virus called “Ottawa” that seeks to infect and control everything …Quebec has always had that part right.

However, as demonstrated by the fact that Quebec has not ‘separated’ (when they have had no real barriers against doing so), and in the face of the enormous financial benefits they have enjoyed by waving the ‘separation stick’ around over the years …Quebec also got it wrong ...in terms of their methods for achieving their goals.

Essentially Quebec’s ‘enemy’ is the power hungry, controlling de facto central ‘government’ in Ottawa …not the rest of Canada’s citizens who have been screwed by Ottawa for the dollars necessary to play the game with Quebec. So while Quebec’s stand to maintain their legitimate sovereign rights is very admirable, their methods (that have financially victimized others) are not. Therefore Quebec has lost the empathy and/or support of Canadians who, when the numbers of dollars became known, became outraged and focused a lot of their anger toward Quebecers on account of it, instead of directing it more appropriately at Ottawa. Quebec has alienated themselves as a result.

Now we have AdScam and the Gomrey Inquiry to think about, all on account of the Ottawa - Quebec chess game! In the long run, some great good may come of it outside of convicting and jailing those responsible (business types and political types included) ensuring severe sentences are imposed on all of them – that no one is immune or excused from prosecution and penalty is vitally important nationally and internationally.

Nationally, Canadians need to see a couple of very important things from all of this and the sooner the better. First, we need to see how absolutely backward the administration of Canada has become in that the true ‘owners’ of the land (the citizenry en masse) have become the ‘subjects’ of self-proclaimed masters who feel they have absolute right to dictate, take from us anything they want and to conduct themselves outside of laws and ethics anyone else is required to live by!

Secondly, Canadians need to see that these self-proclaimed monarchs, with their vassals and minions, are not beyond the reach of consequences for their insidious and criminal acts. For far too long Canadians have given in to the notion that “there is nothing they can do so why try”. It’s the old “you can’t fight city hall” adage in action. Canadians need to know there IS something they can do …the first of which is to insist, and continue to insist that none of the involved characters is beyond consequences.

Internationally, Canada is fast becoming known as a weak, fence-sitting country that is fast to dispense high-minded advice and opinion, but which is almost incapable of defending its own borders, enforcing its own sovereignty, or controlling the mouths of arrogant politicians and civil servants who embarrass us all with their verbal sewage.

For all that high-minded dribble our politicians have eschewed on the international stage, we now have this AdScam mess flapping in the breeze for all the world to see! Imagine how pathetic we will look if those responsible (who ever they are and even if they once were a Prime Minister) are not prosecuted and punished in the same fashion as private individuals would have been if caught perpetrating a similarly enormous fraud!

Some questions to ponder seriously in these dark times:

• Isn’t it high time we showed ourselves (and the rest of the world) what Canadians are REALLY made of?
  
  
• Isn’t it time we reclaimed the respect, reputation and honour we once held and deserved internationally?
  
  
• Isn’t it high time we rebuilt this country as it should have been in the first place?

This particular Feudal Serf says emphatically “YES”!

Til next time
The Serf