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Question: Why independence?
Answer: Why the quote?
Me, I'm not an expert in politics. Nor a journalist who follows all developments on a daily or a columnist paid to write nonsense like André Pratte. I'm just an ordinary Joe.
But it seems clear to me, something is wrong in Quebec. We all know more. Each of us knows that something is wrong here, a kind of permanent political deadlock that prevents the people of Quebec to move forward. It does not take a rocket scientist to see that.
We the ordinary people. We, the workers and the unemployed, the poor.
Without falling into endless arguments about identity and the economy, we can talk of sovereignty and new horizons. Appropriate this debate instead of leaving it in the wrong hands, those of the colonized intellectuals, the elite corrupt and servile.
After all, the problem is not so complex. Our company has two options: Quebec remains a province of Canada, with all that that implies, or it is free of British rule, and all that that implies. This domination
which lasts from the Conquest in 1760 in fact, when New France passed into the hands of English, was characterized by a violent hostility to the French, up to openly wish for their assimilation.
1755 - This is the beginning of the deportation of the Acadians.
1760 - The British invaded New France and massacred thousands of civilians.
1837 - The stubborn refusal of London to grant responsible government to the parliament of Lower Canada (92 Resolutions) leads the rebellion of the Patriots.
1840 - London decides to follow the recommendations of Lord Durham and annex Lower Canada Upper Canada. In this new set, Lower Canada gets only half the seats, despite a population well over.
1867 - The federation of the various British colonies in North America Minorisa French-Canadians in both the House of Commons in terms of population.
1871 - French is abolished in New Brunswick.
1885 - Louis Riel was hanged.
1890 - French is abolished in Manitoba.
1912 - French is abolished in Ontario.
1917 - The Canadian government adopted conscription, against strong opposition from Quebec. The Prime Minister of Canada, Robert Borden then triggers a general election, he wins, despite a massive vote against him in Quebec. His government has therefore more than the French Canadian militia and British began to comb the province to find recruits who are hiding.
1942 - Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King, requires a second conscription despite his promise not to use them. To achieve this, he holds a referendum asking Canadians to release him from his commitments. Quebecers refuse categorically to 71%. But the overwhelming support of Canadian English-conscription gives victory to King on the overall result to 64%.
1982 - The federal government and the nine provincial premiers adopt the Constitution to make the Basic Law of the country without Quebec's consent. Canada imposes a new constitutional order in Quebec.
1995 - Ottawa violated the laws of Quebec in order to sabotage the referendum on sovereignty.
1996 - To end the separatism in Quebec, the Canadian government implements the plan B. Sponsorship, fiscal imbalance, the Clarity Act, intimidation and threats of partition or armed intervention in cases of possible Yes vote, no effort is made to bully the right to self-determination of the Quebec people.
say that after more than two centuries of oppression and discrimination against the French in America, the English still have the nerve to despise the Quebec nation they consider racist and intolerant.
I think we can safely say that the political structure that is Canada is not responding and never responded to our needs. Instead, it is a machine to crush, flatten, roll-compress Quebec's distinctiveness.
I say leave the Canadian convoy. Choose our own destination and the route. A new country for a new millennium.
Mathieu
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