Freddie P's Blog

March 26, 2007 @ 09:03

I guest to some extent I'm a bit of a weirdo when it comes to politics. I woke up this morning with a mild case of the butterflies because of today's Quebec election

That's a great thing about satellite or cable television today, you can tune into local channels right across the country, and I plan on doing that tonight when the election results start to come in from Canada's most selfish province.

It really is a sad statement on this country when we have to be on edge because one of our biggest pieces continuously threatens separatism. It's a type of leverage that drives me nuts because our country is at stake.

Just when we think we've rid ourselves of peckerheads like Rene Levesque, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry along comes a freak like PQ Leader Andre Boisclair who's yapping about another referendum.

But it cuts a little deeper this time because the Action Democratique Party has become rather formidable and although leader Mario Dumont says he has no plans to push for a referendum, his party still leans towards a more autonomous Quebec and you just have to wonder if he'll become more radical as he becomes more powerful.

At the very least, having the ADQ exist creates a parking lot for soft nationalists, and that affects Jean Charest and the Liberals.

I was listening to Bill Carroll on CFRB this morning and he mentioned how the politics in Quebec becomes obsessive with people. His wife Sylvie was raised in Quebec and for the past couple of weeks his phone has been ringing off the hook with Sylvie's relatives wanting to talk about the election because as nationalists they're apprehensive.

Bill says it was politics that drove his wife out of the province because she just couldn't take it any more, and obviously she's not alone because thousands upon thousands have done the same thing.

But that's not to say you can ever escape it, because none of us can. As long as there's the threat of a separatism in Quebec it costs all Canadians, which was proved last week in the federal budget.