The Sharxster
2003-06-26 18:16:31 UTC
Le Fri, 20 Jun 2003 18:11:50 -0400, E. Barry Bruyea
French masters did. They cut their losses and bailed.
You are quite wrong to fall back on a very dramatic starting point
instead of recognizing how far we have come to constitute a solid and
dynamic national entity while both of our national hands were
handcuffed to our national back. All the while, Loyalist Canada failed
to accomplish the very minimum with all colonial and domineering aces
in hands.
Handicapped by colonial lead shoes on the starting blocks, we beat you
to the finish line. That is what stays in history books. We survived.
We will live as a free decolonized nation long after your British
North America Rhodesian imposture will have become nothing but a bad
dream...
Abandoned by one colonizer. Conquered and colonized by another, the
conquered nation of Quebec succeeded in an environment where colonial
Loyalist Canada is a failure. United Loyalist Canada is progressing on
the very same route that sank its former master.
With the difference that contrary to the drifting colonial debris the
sunk British Empire left behind, the conquered nation of Quebec has
built around itself a solid, world acclaimed unique cultural core as
identity card.
"A central preoccupation of this essay [...] has to do with the
seeming inability of constituted nations to recognize the essential
reality of "people" who exist within other nations and have not
acceded to their own nation states.
The problem takes on a particular twist in Canada, where the
English-speaking majority (it is generally accepted) has failed to
develop a cultural identity commensurate with the possession of a
nation state. At the same time, the French-speaking minority seems to
have accomplished a cultural identity - but without obtaining a
political state.
Quebec's nationalism is not a relic, but rather the survival of a
powerful idea which is once again on the rise.
Canada needs to learn from Quebec; particularly if Canada must, one
day soon, make its way without Quebec."
Impossible Nation: The Longing for Homeland in Canada and Quebec
Ray Conlogue. pp. 16-19.
Paul Rodgers
YOUR feeble excuse for a province, and that is exactly what it is, AYour bravery would have been best expressed in a declaration of
independence from your colonial links instead of drifting from the
late British empire to the American one as its most docile colony.
For all you claim above to have accomplished is to follow marching
orders from your masters to involve yourself in foreign wars when you
never had the basic courage to undertake your very own.
In less than two weeks you will celebrate your the latest
neocolonialism yours were imposed around identity symbols that are not
even your own.
Paul Rodgers
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Well, at least the British didn't abandon Canada the way your formerindependence from your colonial links instead of drifting from the
late British empire to the American one as its most docile colony.
For all you claim above to have accomplished is to follow marching
orders from your masters to involve yourself in foreign wars when you
never had the basic courage to undertake your very own.
In less than two weeks you will celebrate your the latest
neocolonialism yours were imposed around identity symbols that are not
even your own.
Paul Rodgers
~~~~~~~~~~~~
French masters did. They cut their losses and bailed.
instead of recognizing how far we have come to constitute a solid and
dynamic national entity while both of our national hands were
handcuffed to our national back. All the while, Loyalist Canada failed
to accomplish the very minimum with all colonial and domineering aces
in hands.
Handicapped by colonial lead shoes on the starting blocks, we beat you
to the finish line. That is what stays in history books. We survived.
We will live as a free decolonized nation long after your British
North America Rhodesian imposture will have become nothing but a bad
dream...
Abandoned by one colonizer. Conquered and colonized by another, the
conquered nation of Quebec succeeded in an environment where colonial
Loyalist Canada is a failure. United Loyalist Canada is progressing on
the very same route that sank its former master.
With the difference that contrary to the drifting colonial debris the
sunk British Empire left behind, the conquered nation of Quebec has
built around itself a solid, world acclaimed unique cultural core as
identity card.
"A central preoccupation of this essay [...] has to do with the
seeming inability of constituted nations to recognize the essential
reality of "people" who exist within other nations and have not
acceded to their own nation states.
The problem takes on a particular twist in Canada, where the
English-speaking majority (it is generally accepted) has failed to
develop a cultural identity commensurate with the possession of a
nation state. At the same time, the French-speaking minority seems to
have accomplished a cultural identity - but without obtaining a
political state.
Quebec's nationalism is not a relic, but rather the survival of a
powerful idea which is once again on the rise.
Canada needs to learn from Quebec; particularly if Canada must, one
day soon, make its way without Quebec."
Impossible Nation: The Longing for Homeland in Canada and Quebec
Ray Conlogue. pp. 16-19.
Paul Rodgers
PROVINCE. Quebec is NOT a country. Quebec is NOT a nation. Quebec is NOT a
state. Your feeble excuse for a hinterland needs fascist language and
cultural legislation to survive. Not to mention BILLIONS a year in subsidies
from Ontario and Alberta. So, go and rant your ill-bred patois elsewhere.
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"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
whether the mad destruction"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless,
is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty
and democracy?- Gandhi -
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