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Old 01-28-2011, 05:20 PM   #1
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Default Bloc to Harper: Send $5 billion to Quebec

Clearly sounds like extortion to me, "give us some cash and we'll get behind your budget".



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Old 01-28-2011, 05:26 PM   #2
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Quebec should hold a referendum and vote to seperate.
I'm sick of their whole "take, take, and more take" attitude.

Au revior!!!
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:27 PM   #3
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That is all that party is reduced to, filthy begging. Since they know they will never win the separation vote, they turned to extortionists.

My folks are from MTL. To hear how great that city was before the separatists came to power makes me a little sad. A world class city on par with a Paris or London in the 60's and early 70's. Kinda sad.
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:33 PM   #4
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This is the reason so many Canadians are sick and tired of Quebec's antics... Every Albertan already pays $3000+ in equalization payments. Why should we be funding better services to them when we can't afford the same in our provinces? Load of crap.
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Old 01-28-2011, 05:36 PM   #5
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harper's goal is to help canada survive the economic recession and quebec pulls crap like this. Seriously, they need a smack to the face to gain some respect for the rest of canada.
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Quebec isn't pulling this crap, greedy politicians are. Let's not make unfair sweeping generalizations.
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Harper would probably win every seat outside of Quebec if he told the Bloc to kiss his a%% in front of the Parliament building.
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The problem is that every one of these parties and their leaders are so damn power-hungry that they're willing to deal with the Bloc. It'd be nice if they all issued a joint statement telling Quebec to quit voting Bloc or else they lose a nice chunk of equalization payments.
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Perhaps if the PQ and BQ hadn't destabilised their own economy and frightened off foreign investment for more than three decades, there wouldn't be a need to extort money from the ROC.
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Quebec isn't pulling this crap, greedy politicians are. Let's not make unfair sweeping generalizations.
Yep, because Bloc members get elected in every other province.
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Harper would probably win every seat outside of Quebec if he told the Bloc to kiss his a%% in front of the Parliament building.
You're really underestimating how pansified the city of Toronto is.
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Yep, because Bloc members get elected in every other province.
Yep and I'm sure as an Albertan you voted for the PC's yet oddly enough I'm sure you haven't agreed with everything with Stelmach did or said right?
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Quebec should hold a referendum and vote to seperate.
Or the rest of canada should hold a referendum to have them removed.
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Or the rest of canada should hold a referendum to have them removed.
And pay us back
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I for one love the fact that we have a big section of our country who speaks a different language, and adopts a different culture. What needs to go is the us against them attitude. I believe that the Bloc Quebecois is a giant pile of crap. Whatever your platform be as a national political party, it shouldn't be legally allowed to favour one part of the country over the other...that's what the provincial legislatures are for.
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Yep and I'm sure as an Albertan you voted for the PC's yet oddly enough I'm sure you haven't agreed with everything with Stelmach did or said right?

Except the Bloc only have one goal. Separation, everything else is secondary.


If you vote Bloc, you're voting for the ideology.
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Yep and I'm sure as an Albertan you voted for the PC's yet oddly enough I'm sure you haven't agreed with everything with Stelmach did or said right?
Do you mean the guy who was so unpopular because of his ideas he has to leave his post
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i took my daughter to a french immersion school open house and it was a tough to listen to the principle and school resource person be en francais. why do the french come accross as so snobby and on another planet of their own self awsomeness?

i wish they didnt have so many seats so that it wasnt good political strategy to let them extort the rest of us.

i do take it personally actually. some french politician is telling our brothers and sisters in Quebec that if they vote for them, they will execute a succesful extortion strategy on the ROC.

i am a quid pro quo kinda guy. would someone tell me what PQ offers the rest of Canada that we should be paying them? i dunno, what are we spending on our money on? We pay them for the right to build a road connecting our lands and provide them protection and economic infrastructure. all i see is we are allowed a road through their land to connect our siblings in the Maritimes.

would any business man from Alberta do business in PQ under these conditions?
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Do you mean the guy who was so unpopular because of his ideas he has to leave his post
oh FFS use any other politician as an example then. Him stepping down is immaterial to what my point was
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So this is how they plan to bring the Nordiques back...
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