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[thepeel]

[Wrench]

But the idiots keep votic block what do you expect.

[Slep]

[mindmetoo]

Great line from a neverendum of yesteryear. (I paraphrase)

Reporter to Parizeau: The first referendum lost Montreal many of its corporate headquarters jobs. Are you not afraid a second one will lose the remaining corporate headquarters?

Parizeau: No no. If we win we will just legislate any international company doing business in Quebec must open a corporate headquarters in our nation.

Quebec and Korea have a lot in common.

[thepeel]

[mindmetoo]

I grew up in an English suburb of Montreal during the FLQ crisis and the PQ coming to power and the exodus of the corporate HQs to Toronto. I remember the Sun Life stink (one of the few companies that said flat out they were moving to Toronto because they didn't like the political situation). I ended up working for Sun Life out of university. My dad was (and still is) a professor at McGill and his lab was based at the Royal Victoria Hospital during the FLQ crisis. My dad was certainly a target. After the kidnappings, I remember soldiers in my neighborhood. Anyone deemed a potential target got a couple soldiers on his lawn, positioned behind a sandbag baracade. When you grow up with GI Joes and you're a boy, this is about as freakin' cool as it can get.

I also remember never having to use a wit of French in Montreal and a time when they key positions in government, business, and academia went to Anglophones.

[Adventurer]

Les nationalistes, separatistes had a point when they said there was discrimination in the 1970s, 1980s, but the zealousness with which they went with phasing in the French language led to capital flight. The Liberals felt pressured to respond to the emotional talk of separation.
Both the PQ and Liberals did not focus enough on the fiscal mess in Quebec. Two referendums have led to a brain drain, calls of the OLF being the Ayatollahs of language etc....Many anglophones and allophones and some francophones left the province. Quebec has had a serious brain drain vis-a-vis Ontario and Alberta and to some extent B.C.

It is true the Quebec Left largely mismanaged the finances of the provinces leading to massive debt. So did the Liberals. Jacques Parizeau, though he was educated at a prestigious English university and obtained a degree in economics, did not address the debt of the province and its economic growth. It goes to show that attending a presigious university does not entail being qualified to handle what you studied such as managing the province's finances. Especially, if you are focusing on nationalism. Lucien Bouchard acted more of an economist than Parizeau and try to fix matters. I think not enough anglophones gave Lucien credit.

I think Charest wasn't popular, because to some extent he was getting fiscally tougher than the PQ. There are other reasons. He raised the cost of daycare, put a stop to the tuition freeze, if I recall correctly, but I am not sure how he addressed the debt in the province. Dumont is right the debt needs to be paid, but also taxes are too high in Quebec. If the taxes are too high, then people will go to Ontario where they are much lower. I don't think the premiers who came before Charest were better than him or equal to him except for maybe Bouchard.

Quebec does have a mess. It needs to be dealt with. People need to focus on the economy, buidling bridges between the anglophones and francophones. Because that was not being done, I left Quebec. I may return, but I would like the province to be more vibrant.

Charest was a member of the PC Party. He wasn't from the Liberal Party.
He is a federalist, and slightly right of centre, I think.
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[mindmetoo]

[crusher_of_heads]

[Adventurer]

[jinju]

Quebec does deserve to be poor. They are simply paying for their own actions: voting Bloc, being xenophobes, etc. They deserve whatever situation they have.