olivier.kaemmerer

Inscrit le : 27 Fév 2006 Messages : 956 Localisation : Montréal, Québec
 | Sujet: Quebec Nation Lun 8 Jan - 1:48 | |
| Here's a link to a very flatering text by american Bernie Quigley. He supports Quebec being a nation, hence a country. He even asks what exactly is Canada minus Quebec. Quebec Nation by Bernie Quigley |
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simonrobert
Inscrit le : 20 Nov 2005 Messages : 295
 | Sujet: Re: Quebec Nation Lun 8 Jan - 8:58 | |
| "Quebec has always been here and will always be here. Quebec is like Ukraine, older than Russia, way older that communism, political nihilism, capitalism and consumerism; still there when the rave passes and it awakens again. Quebec is like Ireland, once, future and always, watching Great Britain rise to the world around it and fall again. Quebec is like the Old Dominion, acquired and tamed and mastered by the New Man of the North, as the great historian W.J. Cash put it more or less, but a spirit bound to the land like a river.
What if Cromwell had declared Ireland to be a nation but never to be free as Harper did Quebec? What if Lincoln had declared the South to be divisible and autonomous?
Quebec is and always has been a nation. The question is now, what is Canada?"
Indeed, WHAT is Canada? |
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olivier.kaemmerer

Inscrit le : 27 Fév 2006 Messages : 956 Localisation : Montréal, Québec
 | Sujet: Re: Quebec Nation Lun 8 Jan - 17:53 | |
| | Now that Quebec has been formally (not constitutionally) reckongnized as a nation within united Canada, the new question has got to be; where does the canadian nation start and where does it end. I personnally can't stand the two levels of nations, how can a nation be one and be within another at the same time. It reminds me a bit Claude Charon's nation voyageuse. This is simply illogic and so Canada. Where in the world would people vote such an absurd motion? |
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Jeremy Stone

Age : 16 Inscrit le : 09 Déc 2007 Messages : 203 Localisation : Montérégie
 | Sujet: Re: Quebec Nation Lun 17 Déc - 19:46 | |
| | olivier.kaemmerer a écrit: | | Now that Quebec has been formally (not constitutionally) reckongnized as a nation within united Canada, the new question has got to be; where does the canadian nation start and where does it end. I personnally can't stand the two levels of nations, how can a nation be one and be within another at the same time. It reminds me a bit Claude Charon's nation voyageuse. This is simply illogic and so Canada. Where in the world would people vote such an absurd motion? |
For Mr.Harper to say that Quebec is a nation is nothing realy. Because, in fact, he is only saying that french speaking Canadians are a part of canada's large cultural differences. But, Quebec is still in canada and that nation is still Canadian. I don't know why sepertists say that this is good because it isen't he's making people think it is to kill the independant movement and make people vote Conservative. _________________ "Quand on veut on peut, quand on peut on doit." -Napoléon
"Nul n'est plus esclave que celui qui se croit libre sans l'être." -Goethe
"J'aime mieux que la population de Québec soit administrée par Québec, pour Québec, que par Ottawa, pour Ottawa. -Duplessis |
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