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I took upon myself to translate an article by a prominent sovereignist in order to make it available for our discussion and to make sure that the National Post's or Globe and Mail's editorialists' point of view was not the only one to which you were exposed. So I made mistakes in my translation...

Alright, here I go posting other people's articles. Others did it before me in this very thread, though. Hopefully it'll be some good food for thoughts. (original french version here) The xenophobic vice is tightening Jean-François Lisée La Presse November 2nd 2007 Translated by me. The...

About the National Post paper, I have two things to say. First, comparing Parizeau as well as the majority of "separatists" to Le Pen is fucked up. Le Pen is a crazy racist motherfucker. Being compared to that scum is really offensive. That editorialist should read La censure pour l'échafaud...

Wee ! Double posting people ! Please be careful. Not superior per se. But I am loyal to the country in which I originate and live. If people from abroad choose Québec as their new country, they must become loyal to Québec. That's just obvious. If they don't want to be loyal to Québec, they...

Why not ? Because I have loyalties. That's why. Because I care about my culture and want it to be and thrive etc. But you would like it uh ? One less pain in Canada's saintly butt. Some have blamed it on immigration. They were wrong though. We owe it to our own fear of freedom and lack of...

If multiculturalism works, why not use it, right ? Indeed. Except for one tiny detail. It would work if Québec were an independant country where it is clear and established that french is the common and "normal" language of the public space. Unfortunately, things are not that way. We have 300...

Oh I understand what you meant now. Yes, I totally agree. That's probably why Hérouxville's move is so ridiculous. European culture is not, objectively speaking, more important than any other culture. But it is probably subjectively more important to people of European descent, like myself...

What about people who aren't white and identify themselves as western ? You don't have to be white, for example, to read, dig, and adopt stoician philosophy. Yet, if you do, you are most likely contaminated by the evil spirit of western culture. ;)

Yeah, it is wrong. Do you remember the name of the town ?

Most jurists I know told me the same thing. Including sovereignists. Some, though, believe that Article 1 of the Constitution could be used. And don't forget the Nisga'a precedent. If you remember, I have visited Canada to some extent. But it's difficult to really speak with the locals when...

How polite. Yet I am deeply hurt by your comment, I will therefore answer to your kind accusations. Wikipedia gives the following definition of a troll (see : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll) : An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who intentionally...

What the hell ? You are kidding, right ? I was saying that Hérouxville's code of conduct has many flaws, but that their intent isn't bad. If you read it, you'll notice that it is pretty inoffensive and naive. It's just good olde common sense, too such an extent, in fact, that it is laughable...

Cultural knowledge and culture in its sociological acception are two different things. That being said, I don't see how the fact that there is a culture associated to each people (people used as a synonym for nation, not many "persons") proves that cultural no man's land doesn't exist. She...

No. If your citizenship is your birthright, you don't have to pass the test. And it applies to the anglophone community. It's their birthright as much as mine. But Bill 101 is also unconstitutional. We'll try to find a way around, if we can. And we have a Canadian precedent. I was born...

:shrug: Didn't invent the concept. Just explaining how I understand this. I totally agree with Vicente. Hérouxville's code of conduct may be a clumsy and naive overreactive piece of crap, what it comes down to is nevertheless just common sense.

Well, maybe it's my lack of knowledge on the english language, but I use people and culture as near synonyms, since there's always a particular culture associated with a particular people. Immigrants have to wait a pre-determined length of time before they can get their canadian citizenship...

I believe that religion and disabilities are compared here because the legal concept of reasonable accommodation was at first created to answer issues pertaining to people with disabilities.

Didn't you hear about reasonnable accomodations ? What is today referred to as reasonnable accomodations are usually religious accomodations granted to minorities. Now, a number of anecdotic events over the past year and a half (approximatively) have sparkled a debate on this issue. Among such...

Hell, do you have an identity or what ? Are we such a bunch of idiots for claiming, all together, that we have something in common ? All those who claim that they are Québécois would in fact be mistaken ? It would be some kind of belief that we share something that is in fact false ? Which...

True, although it is nothing compared to the level of discomfort that prevailed circa 1970. It should have a happy ending.