Quebec elects Pauline Marois PQ government

[Ken Burch]

31. Posts like that won't help them get over it.

And here's the thing...Quebec is a francophone province(let's face it, for all practical purposes a francophone nation)surrounded by a sea of anglophone arrogance on three sides(English Canada to the east and west, the U.S. to the south). The anglophones on those three sides have never really accepted that a non-anglophone culture has the right to exist in their midst(the U.S. is bad about that with other languages...half of the reason Puerto Rico isn't a state yet is that right-wing U.S. politicians can't tolerate the idea of any state where English isn't the main or sole language-and, let's face it, does anybody here think people in the Southwest would give a damn about "illegals" if California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas shared a border with England?)

If the ROC(the "Rest of Canada", as some refer to it)were to just say to Quebec "ok, you're francophone, you have your own distinct culture, and we won't ever try to do anything to dilute that or change it, and you have every right to be angry because of all the hateful shite we pulled towards you in the old day", the dynamic would be a lot different.

But that won't happen anytime soon, in part because Stephen Harper, the current Canadian prime minister, is trying to personally build support back up for the Bloc Quebecois party at the next election, through a policy of endlessly goading Quebec and belittling its cultural and linguistic concerns. Harper is doing this because:

A) like most right-wing English Canadian politicians, Harper doesn't really want to see Canada survive(he'd really, deep down inside, rather see it absorbed into a North American right-wing federation..."Greater Tejanostan", in effect)

B) The Bloc, if it were to revive, would take votes almost entirely from the federal New Democratic Party(NDP)the social-democratic official opposition, which currently holds the vast majority of Quebec seats in the Canadian House of Commons.