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Iggy and the kinder, gentler Bloc Quebecois separatists

Liberals embrace friendly separatists



In an article published in Quebec ‘s Le Devoir and picked up in English in the Globe & Mail, shiny new Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, commonly referred to as Iggy by the adoring mainstream media, has decided to attempt to put a kinder, gentler face on the Bloc Quebecois separatists.

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And not surprisingly his media friends are only too happy to help him out in his quest. Le Devoir quoted Ignatieff from an airport interview as saying the separatists were duly elected by the people of Quebec and they are neither traitors nor enemies of Canada. And, by strict definition, technically that is correct since they did not previously support the Confederation then suddenly turn on it. Okay. So, Mr. Ignatieff, if they are not traitors or enemies of the country, what are they ? Are they friends of Canada ? Since their sole reason for existence is to tear Canada apart, they certainly do not appear to very friendly. Besides, with friends like that, who needs enemies ? To infer that they are friends is to take an Orwellian approach to the meaning of words. In George Orwell’s world of 1984, black is white, true is false and enemy is friend. It would then follow that a traitor is a patriot. It is really difficult to visualize Gilles Duceppe as a patriot of Canada. It is obvious what the wanna-be prime minister is doing. Ignatieff is attempting to make the separatists acceptable to Canadians as partners in the duplicitous coalition cobbled together by former Liberal Leader Stephane Dion, NDP huckster Jack Layton and, of course BQ front man Gilles Duceppe, just in case he wants to topple the government. What bothers me about this theonomous trinity is that none of its members have the courage to stand up and tell Canadians that these separatist friends of theirs would virtually control the government. The mischief they could inflict on the rest of Canada is absolutely unacceptable. If Mr. Ignatieff wishes to inflict these people, elected by Quebecers or not, on the rest of us, he had better come clean and give us the downside. Just add up the numbers in the Commons and it clearly tells us, the PQ, with their desire to break up this country, will have an absolute veto in the house. And given Layton’s obsession with having power, it is not hard to imagine him performing acrobatics to satisy any separatist demand. What I found particularly distressing, other than the timid trio not wanting to touch this subject, is the fact that some people are buying into Ignatieff’s take on the friendly separatists. If you check the comments being posted on the Globe & Mail website, you will see many responses agreeing with Ignatieff. Of course, under our system of government, should the Conservatives fall to a motion of non-confidence on January 27 it will be up the Governor General to decide whether Canadians will get a chance to vote for or against a coalition government, or whether she will let the coalition attempt to govern. We will just have to wait and see what happens. If Ignatieff wants to do the honorable thing, he will immediately attempt to provide Canadians with the justification for allowing the separatists to virtually rule the country. Mind you it comes as no surprise that Liberals could so readily embrace their friendly separatists.


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