The thing is, Stéphane Dion (the Liberal Leader) sent the French version of the speech to the station on time, but was late with the English version... which was out of focus. And he's notorious for having really, really bad English. People were also having a spaz when he was elected leader of the opposition because he has dual citizenship with France - like, conflict of interest or something?
Anyway, we do sometimes get minority governments, but they don't normally last this long. (I, er, assume you know what they are? I never know, when I'm talking to people who aren't in the Commonwealth. ;) )
YES I KNOW. WHY DIDN'T WE SEE IT BEFOAR IT IS ALL SO CLEAR TO ME NOW. To separatists Quebec separation is the solution to everything. We don't want the war in Afghanistan? Separate and pull out our troops. Don't like Canadian taxes? Separate and we'll decide our own! Don't like English? Separate, and of course no more English will get in! Global warming? Pish posh! Let's separate! ;)
I feel like I can make fun of them because I just wrote a paper on the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, and went to Quebec City and Montreal last month. It was funny - by the Provincial Parliament building, there are loads of bronze statues of famous Quebecois, and people from New France, etc. And then, randomly, a bust of Ghandi. Me and my friend Maialen were staring at it, wondering what the heck it was doing there. Ghandi is indeed awesome, but he'd never been to Quebec, didn't speak French, probably didn't even know the province existed...
Then I was like: wait a minute. What did Ghandi do? He successfully (and peacefully) got the British (English) out of India. XDDDD I think that they were hoping that some of his good karma rubbed off on the separatists. ;)
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Date: 2009-03-25 03:45 am (UTC)Anyway, we do sometimes get minority governments, but they don't normally last this long. (I, er, assume you know what they are? I never know, when I'm talking to people who aren't in the Commonwealth. ;) )
YES I KNOW. WHY DIDN'T WE SEE IT BEFOAR IT IS ALL SO CLEAR TO ME NOW. To separatists Quebec separation is the solution to everything. We don't want the war in Afghanistan? Separate and pull out our troops. Don't like Canadian taxes? Separate and we'll decide our own! Don't like English? Separate, and of course no more English will get in! Global warming? Pish posh! Let's separate! ;)
I feel like I can make fun of them because I just wrote a paper on the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, and went to Quebec City and Montreal last month. It was funny - by the Provincial Parliament building, there are loads of bronze statues of famous Quebecois, and people from New France, etc. And then, randomly, a bust of Ghandi. Me and my friend Maialen were staring at it, wondering what the heck it was doing there. Ghandi is indeed awesome, but he'd never been to Quebec, didn't speak French, probably didn't even know the province existed...
Then I was like: wait a minute. What did Ghandi do? He successfully (and peacefully) got the British (English) out of India. XDDDD I think that they were hoping that some of his good karma rubbed off on the separatists. ;)