Quebec as an Ethno-State?
The Occidental Observer
Quebec is one part of the Occident that has had some chance of developing as an ethno-state at least since the 1970s when separation from the rest of Canada became a realistic possibility. Quebecers would have done this by now had the multi-cultis and federalists not intimidated them. Another round of that struggle is going on now and the intimidation seems to be holding up.
A renewed enthusiasm among Quebec nationalists for defending their language and identity (cf. “Notes from Quebec”, Oct. 16) was manifested in the bills recently proposed by the Parti Québécois (currently in opposition). If passed, they would promote respect for Quebecers’ ancestral cultural traditions, the French language, equality of men and women and keeping the public sphere secular. They would restrict certain political rights to those with a minimum command of the French language to be allowed to contribute to political parties or stand for an election. They also would establish a Constitution for Quebec in an attempt to over-ride the Canadian Constitution (which Quebec never signed on to anyway when it was “repatriated” from Britain by the late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau — considered a traitor to the French nation by nationalists).
BLAM! The enemies of French nationalism, led by the National Post, the Montreal Gazette (both owned by the Asper family) and B’nai Brith, struck with their usual anti-“racist” invective. (The Asper family, which is Jewish, owns CanWest, the largest newspaper company in Canada. The family actively uses its media empire to advance Jewish causes, such as support for Israel.) The proposed bills regarding identity, language and citizenship were seen as setting up two categories of citizenship within Canada and to be part of an outpouring of intolerance toward non-French Anglophones and immigrants, all linked to the on-going Bouchard-Taylor (BT) Commission hearings on “reasonable accommodation” to minority religious/cultural demands.
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