


The Montreal Gazette ‘s editorialists, for example, are thrilled to see Quebec’s provincial politics fracturing on so many different fault lines at once, which may well lead to a party composed of both federalists and separatists - Dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria! - not to mention, you know, some new ideas in a province that’s gagging for them. This is a good thing. Why are federalists denying themselves a rare opportunity to be happy? In that context, says Hébert, running as a New Democrat, or voting for one, can “only be construed as turning away from the pursuit of sovereignty.” Precisely. ” The Parti Québécois’ fortunes seemed to be improving many people thought separatism was on the rise.

The new Quebec politics In an excellent column, the Toronto Star‘s Chantal Hébert suggests people who are genuinely perplexed by the presence of former Bloc Québécois members in (or voters supporting) nominally federalist parties calm down for a second and remember what just happened: “As recently as six months ago, running for the NDP in Quebec was synonymous with becoming a sacrificial lamb.” The Bloc was fat and happy, “arguing forcefully that Quebec social democrats could not hope for a society that reflected their ideals within a Canada that was leaning. But, after several hundred words of tumescent praise for books made of paper rather than of electrons, he argues that modern-day Nazis “could press a button and delete the digital library, quietly killing our catalogue of knowledge.” The thing is … no, they couldn’t.Īs the 10 th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks approaches, Lawrence Martin, writing in the Globe, bemoans the compromises in principle the West has allowed itself to make for fear of “a ragtag collection of terrorist twirps, pissants or whatever you want to call them.” He is particularly troubled, as everyone should be, by the proposal to “compel Internet service providers to disclose customer information to authorities without a court order” - an idea Stockwell Day still opposes, incidentally, not that it makes much difference. In the Ottawa Citizen, Andrew Cohen concedes that the demise of Borders Books in the United States is somewhat different from a Nazi book burning. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

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