Mockba wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')uring the first test to the system in the 70ies Canadians experimented with nationalization. Mr. Bill should tell us all how bad it was when it is done not at a gunpoint and to the benefit of people. Yet I was very surprised when I learned that this was partially due to nationalization of electricity generation in Quebec.
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Re: Why is the CND$ falling
by MrBill » Wed 20 Dec 2006, 05:07:17
Bombardier, QuebecHydro, previously Air Canada, etc. were all addicted to public money to create jobs in Quebec and therefore prevent separatism. Isn't Pratt & Whittney Canada the latest corporate welfare recipient hoping to pick the taxpayer's pocket to expand in Quebec? I mean that is fine if you own United Technology stock, but not so great if you're paying taxes in Canada.
Official bi-lingualism is just a sop to Quebeckers. I have friends that spent 9-mos. learning French at the taxpayer's expense and even lived in France for 3-years afterwards. Do you think their counterparts in the civil service will speak French to them? Of course, not, because it is not about bi-lingualism. It is about creating a subsidy for French speaking Canadians in the form of high paying jobs in Ottawa and the Federal government.
One of Jean Cretien's last official acts was to raise the bi-lingual bar higher to exclude native English speakers from competing for those jobs reserved for Quebeckers. And how do you suppose that influences public policy when ALL senior civil servants are by law drawn from the ranks of the officially bi-lingual? Starts to look a lot like the French government's reliance on graduates exclusively from their elite d'ecoles.
I see Canada's francophone policies the same way as I see French intentions to build national champions. Of course, you can build big, successful companies if you enforce protectionism at home to support monopolies that are subsidized by taxpayers and through higher end user fees, if you then use those excess rents to aggressively expand into other companies markets. Is not the merger of Suez and Gaz de France not exactly about ring fencing France's energy market, while French companies expand abroad?
I loved that youtube video link you posted I am not a Canadian where he says, "I believe in a sovereignty, so long as someone else pays for it, and I believe in the language police, not freedom of speech." I guess that says it all? ;- )
If Quebec were to separate, you may as well give them Ottawa as well as there are more Quebeckers working in Ottawa than sharks at a feeding frenzy. If you're going to cut cancer out to save the body, you better get it all!
The organized state is a wonderful invention whereby everyone can live at someone else's expense.
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