Mon pays

[jawnbc]

For those blissfully ignorant about Canadian politics, there may well have been an historic shift in our political discourse yesterday. Rather than go into great detail, my take on it is that there was some cunning poltical instinct at work in the short term, which may well dump us back into the constitutional morass. Please Gawd, not that again: Meech, Charlottetown, 95 referendum...it nauseates me to even think about it.

Last night was my last "real" class of the semester. Dear Gawd, can I please be a professor? I promise to work hard.

And this week has been very productive. And there's yet another day to go. All my to-dos are either done or well progressed.

Off to the shops to find something gorgeous for dinner. With my gorgeous husband. Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it today.

Comments

[bix02138.livejournal.com]

i think you're right about harper's motives for his announcement. but we seem to live in a time of disintegrating nation-states, and maybe the p.m.'s announcement was the best response the ref/con weltanshauung could have to the b.q.'s planned bill. ah well.

[jawnbc]

The Tories always cozy up to soft Québec nationalists in the end: without them they can't form a government. And while it was a clever end-run, the ramifications remain troubling.

What about 1.5 million francophones outside Québec? Non francophones within? Acadians? Métis?

Harper things he appropriated a term to put things to rest. Already in Québec they're saying "now that we agree on the words, we need to change the institutions" i.e. the Constitution. If we add a bunch of nations, the soft nationalist will reject the whole thing; if we don't, many other will.

*throws self off balcony*

[bix02138.livejournal.com]

québecois nationalists don't much care for or about those outside the province, or those within who aren't québecois (including meti and acadien, to be sure, and anglophones most certainly); they disrupt the pûr laine vision of who is and is not part of that nation).

the real determinant of what trouble is (or isn't) in the offing will be the next general election in québec.

Let's see how this Plays out

[weebax.livejournal.com]

As far as I am concerned he put his foot in it or may have simply out smarted both the Liberals and The Bloc. Only time will time.

[foresterx.livejournal.com]

Well it recieved a bit of press here this morning - be interesting to see how this plays out

[holden-wake.livejournal.com]

Maybe, it will sort of be like Lebanon this summer. A lot of people thought it was going to spiral into some gigantic shitstorm and it seems relatively contained for now.

I think i'll accept that Quebec is a nation, but to declare just opens of pandoras box of canadian drama. I'm also worried of what this will lead to. Hopefully, it will just simmer down though...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I have seen other Canadians on my FL talking about this. I may have to investigate this further...intriguing.