Ok, is a nutshell: These two guys are put in place to study the problems inside my province concerning accomodations toward minorities, which have included but are not exclusive to: Frosting some windows of a gym because there was a jewish school next door; the hijab in public funcions; tolerance; racism; the situation with newly arrived immigrants.
Now this report has been progressing all year, and now, 24 hours before it’s public release, everyone’s bitching about it.
Why?
Because some of the info was leaked.
The Gazette reported on this leaked information last Saturday and summed up the conclusions of the report.
Dans son numéro de samedi, le quotidien anglophone a souligné qu’après un an de réflexion, les commissaires Gérard Bouchard et Charles Taylor concluaient pour l’essentiel, qu’il incombait à la majorité francophone de s’ajuster pour normaliser les relations avec les nouveaux arrivants de diverses confessions. La majorité francophone, manquant d’assurance, devrait « apprendre l’anglais, être plus gentille avec les musulmans et s’informer davantage ».
What they expect the report to say is this: The french speaking majority of Quebec should adjust to normalise their relations to new arrivals of different faiths. The french speaking majority, which is unsure of itself, should “learn english, be nicer to muslims and should be more informed”.
Now, not everyone is like me, but I’ve had several internet fights with muslims in the last two years or so. Whenever I found a guy who supports beating his wife or believes men are superior to women BECAUSE THE QURAN SAYS SO, two things happen.
- I’m told that I can’t understand this culture because I don’t know enough about it.
- I’m told that I shouldn’t complain about it because I’m not muslim.
What I usually end up telling this person, is that I wish I was a professional hockey player, because then I could talk about that awsome Stanley Cup Final that’s on TV…
I have an opinion. I hold some information. I have seen so much disinformation and actual distractions from the basic problems (the Associated Press and Reuters are not trustworth) that I hear these conclusions (rumors of the actual conclusions, actually) and I’m afraid.
I’m afraid that Canada has fallen. I’m afraid that Quebec will be labeled racist and that apologists will come running to take over.
I’m afraid that the Pure Laine nation of Quebec has forgotten. Je me souviens should probably be erased from our license plates…
I think we’ve forgotten how we got here. I think we, just as Mark Steyn mentionned in the past, we have no more culture of our own because we’ve put multiculturalism in the front. I think immigrants who come here now HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO ASSIMILATE.
Because we’re tolerant.
Because we’re empty.
Myself, I’m fairly tolerant but I’m not empty. I remember the Plaines d’Abraham. I remember the English burning down our homes. I remember Louis Joseph Papineau. I remember what happened to the Acadians and I see how assimilated the Cajuns are today. I remember 98 years of British occupation without any contact with France. I remember all that.
Our religion prevailed. Our language prevailed. We survived. Let us never forget that.
That’s why, when you look at a building with both the Quebec flag and the Canadian flag, you have Quebec on top. Period. If you don’t understand that, you shouldn’t be here.
I’m sorry if this turned out to be a rant, but the presumed conclusions of this commission go against Bill 101, against the Commission de la Langue Française and ever single thing the french speaking majority has done right.
I hope I’m wrong. I hope this is NOT what this commission has worked so hard to achieve. If so, then it’s a big disappointment, not to mention a huge waste of taxpayer’s money.
Once upon a time, the majority ruled. Now, we may need a Human’s Rights Commission to help us because the majority has become a victim of multiculturalism.
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