tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20007704.post1573222225395739144..comments2023-08-20T01:59:07.171-07:00Comments on CoteGauche: Harper's FollyCoteGauchehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16268679335348992345noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20007704.post-58082897880633389692006-12-25T08:27:00.000-08:002006-12-25T08:27:00.000-08:00Je me demande en effet ce qui aurait été le plus d...Je me demande en effet ce qui aurait été le plus diviseur au Québec : l'actuelle motion conservatrice adoptée ou bien le rejet de la motion du Bloc. <br /><br />Je continue à dire ce que j'ai toujours dit : je n'ai pas besoin que le parlement fédéral définisse qui je suis.Maximehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306620662496895968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20007704.post-65211536390654731932006-12-09T07:42:00.000-08:002006-12-09T07:42:00.000-08:00A constitutional change IS required to limit the t...A constitutional change IS required to limit the term of Senators from the currrent (until 75 years of age) to an 8 year term as proposed in the Bill that is before the Senate (Bill S-4) right now. Bill S-4 is a bill to amend the constitution.<br /><br /><br />You are of course correct on the Quebec Nation issue - it was a Bloc resolution. However it would have been less divisive to simply kill the original Bloc resolution that stated the Quebec is a nation - federalists across the country can agree that Quebec is not a sovereign nation. But instead, Harper amended the resolution to read the Quebecois are a nation within Canada. That garners him maybe a few soft nationalist votes in Quebec, but it pits anglophones against francophones, Quebec against other provinces and Quebecois against Quebecker.<br /><br />Same sex marriage is the same. He was just tossing a bone to the social conservatives with a divisive issue that had no hope of passing.CoteGauchehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16268679335348992345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20007704.post-1714982602036904812006-12-08T22:23:00.000-08:002006-12-08T22:23:00.000-08:00The Cons shot themselves in the foot (feet?). Har...The Cons shot themselves in the foot (feet?). Harpo the clown's gambit was that he would steal Iggy's thunder by talking "nation" before our leadership convention. The Cons were very afraid they would lose votes to us in the next election. All worked well for Harpo - until Iggy lost the leadership. All of a sudden, instead of someone battling him for "soft nationalist" votes (a'la Iggy), he now finds himself battling the author of the Clarity Act (although Harpo may argue with that statement), and he may just end up in a battle for federalist votes in PQ.WesternGrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06658358114507615351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20007704.post-33582721542852850062006-12-08T20:00:00.000-08:002006-12-08T20:00:00.000-08:00I'm actually starting to become very confused with...I'm actually starting to become very confused with the Conservatives, first they try to bring controversial subjects like same sex marriage, and the whole nation issue, and then they bring boring subjects that the average Canadian couldn't care less about IE: the toxic chemical plan they released today.... really if I were in their shoes I would be firing with all guns, but these guys seem to have a lot of blanks.Kevrichardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01963239658771350221noreply@blogger.com