Bill 14 - Quebec's Contribution To Western Thought

Disturbing details in Bill 14 are beginning to emerge.

I was listening to a Human Rights lawyer on the radio who essentially ripped the Bill to shreds.

Let me take it further, all it amounts to is an assault on the English community - PERIOD.

The logic the PQ uses is "we like English people, honest, it's just that the English language threatens us" is intellectual gibberish. Rather than work alongside citizens, the PQ consistently looks to solve a perceived problem with punitive action.

That's what parochial reactionaries do.

The irony - and unfortunate - sadness to all this is that the English-speaking communities are on board with helping to preserve French even though we're under no obligation to do so. We sympathize with the precarious nature of French on the continent.

However, you can only go so far. Italians, Greeks, Portuguese, Chinese, Jews etc. thrive without much help from the state and its best French-Canadians begin to stand on their own two feet without interfering on the civil liberties of others.

Realistically, over the real long-run, their fears may be justified as French will eventually likely disappear. Unless they eradicate the English-community and create an insular society (which is already half-way there), the battle will get harder and harder. I applaud the attempts to take measures, but the measures taken are completely misguided, poorly thought-out, contrary to Western concepts of civil liberties and predicated on treating others as "enemies."

Quebec will have to become more enlightened than what's being pimped out by the PQ.

The PQ, in fact, weaken the core and soul of the French language with their obsession. I don't see much on the level of improving how French is taught in schools which at the moment is a disgrace. Rather, I see how to "protect" it at the expense of English.

That's what we see on the other side of the language divide and it's primarily why we see little merit or choose not to respect the Parti-Quebecois.

The PQ think we're stupid. When using terms like "cultural communities" as opposed to minorities, they attempt to circumnavigate the fact that the former has legitimate rights in international law whereas the former has no meaning - so they use it in hopes of not being sued or chastised for their tyrannical views.

Problem is, when you push as hard as Marois does, you will attract the attention of enlightened minds around the world who seek justice for minorities and this will expose Quebec's real intentions.

The Liberals and CAQ would be out of their cotton-pickin' minds to support the PQ on this atrocity of a Bill. A bill that has all the ugly overtones of the deep, segregationist American south of the 1950s.

The PQ speak of balancing rights but that's more nonsense when you look at the aims in the Bill. It's "rights" up to a point as they arbitrarily define them in the context of a cultural majority. It's essentially tyranny of the majority.

The part of the bill exposed today was the notion that the government has the right to "negate" a child's education if they deem or find that they gained access to an English school through "trickery" (as they worded it) or through any means not acceptable to the government.

I know. Scary.

In effect, they can choose to ruin a child's life because of the actions of their parents AND to protect a language. Specifically, if you're kid does, say, five years in Grade school, the government will not recognize it thus setting you back five years.

A more ugly example of the state intruding on the lives of private citizens than this you can't get.

Yes, let's do it for the children. La societe!

This is how depraved these hicks have become.

It's intellectually immoral.

That's all it is.

As the lawyer put it, she does not know of ANY COUNTRY IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD that goes that far.

Congratulations Quebec. You're fast going on the "watch them on what not to do" list. We will become case studies in UN Human Rights courses on how democracies quickly crush civil liberties.