The Conservatives did not gain the seats they wanted in Quebec, and Gilless Duceppe is already speaking out Quebec demands from Ottawa. “I am open to all proposals, which I will judge on the basis of Quebec’s interests,” he said before also saying he would demand another $820 MILLION dollars on TOP if the annual transfers Quebec already receives. The province of Quebec already gets equalization payments.
Quote :Federal transfer program that allows all provinces, regardless of their ability to raise revenue, to provide roughly comparable levels of services at roughly comparable levels of taxation. Eligibility to receive equalization funding is determined by a formula measuring each province’s revenue-raising capacity against a five-province standard. Currently, eight provinces receive equalization: Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
From the CTV website, “Based on its population, Quebec will get $919 million of that amount, just shy of one-third of the transfers allocated to the provinces in Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s Budget 2007″. That amount is roughly 1/3 of the TOTAL amunt of money for transfers, just for Quebec. And there are, how many provinces? The figures for 2008 have, so far, been difficult to find but I see no reason for that number to have declined. If anything it has increased. Last year the figure was set at $16 BILLION over 3 years. When the Bloc learned of this they had this to say, “The Bloc and Parti Québécois vowed yesterday to use the billions in new federal transfers to Quebec to fight for the province’s secession from Canada”. If that is the case why are spending billions MORE on the bilinqual fiasco? Why are we sending ANY money there at all?
As a Canadian taxpayer we are, in general, a very tolerant people and don’t like to cause too much of a fuss. We tend to just got about our business and for the most part not bother anyone. But excuse me, how much do I have to bend over and take it for something I don’t need, don’t want, and doesn’t do anything for me? I think it’s time the rest of Canada spoke up and said no, no more. Either go, or stay. Quebec should be JUST another province. We are all “special” in our own way. As far as I’m concerned Mr Duceppe should just be a Premier just as Mr Layton is. They represent a province. Mr Layton does not have a party or a place in the house of commons. The same is true for all the other premiers. How this came to pass is another story, and a longer more complicated one. And we can thank a Quebecor for that too. But that’s something for another time. Right now, we need to think of our future. And what’s best for us, for CANADA, and that’s all Quebec does, for itself.
Sean McAllister is just a taxpayer, being told to “fermez-et prenez-le”.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI agree 100%. The confrontation should be done immediately. I’m sick of Quebec.
And yes I am French and yes my wife is French and my ancestors all come from Quebec going back to the 1700’s.
Now, Quebec STFU and join Canada or FO.
Until Ontario wakes up and realizes they are and have been played for Equalization Chumps, nothing will change.
Ontario . . . is up to you. Voice an opinion or keep letting Quebec pick you pocket. Afterall it is mostly your money being frittered away supporting anti-Canadians.
At least Harper cut the greedy Danny Williams off at his kneecaps on the last round.
If Quebec wants to vote for separatists instead of federalists, based on trivial cuts to arts and culture, that in fact were not cuts but an increase of 8%, and the changing of criminal law to hold 14 yr.olds responsible for repeat offences, i. e. murder, then let them separate. Good riddance. But they have to pay back their national debt, and let’s move government offices/jobs to the Maritimes, or somewhere else out of Quebec.
I too am totally fed up with Quebec.
As a Canadian, I have long had a big problem with Quebec. The next time they think they want to leave Canada, I think the rest of Canada should be allowed to vote as well. It will be Goodbye Quebec, goodbye to all the ridiculous product labels in the supermarket, and goodbye all of the government forms that are printed in both languages!
I vote Quebec out!
In the light of the global financial crisis, why not put Quebec on eBay? No reserve, seller must pick up. I am sure that someone would be tempted to bid $5.
I can’t understand the victim complex that Quebecer’s embrace.
Too afraid to separate, too afraid to embrace Canada proper.
It’s no wonder Quebec has the nations highest rate of suicide and general anxiety, not to mention the lowest birthrate thanks to PQ and Bloc’s progessive agenda.
As long as Quebecers send political eunuchs to Ottawa, Quebec will whither own its own vine.
Gilles Duceppe will never be PM nor will he lead an independant Quebec.
The Bloc is the shakedown party of Canada and Quebecer’s should be ashamed of the path their following.
Harper has done alot to advance Quebec’s interests in Canada and he gets the middle finger.
This slight is not lost on the ROC.
Quebec is simply greedy, like all socialists, they want what you have and don’t think they should have to work to support themselves.
I am from Quebec.
Now thats that out, leta see what the people INSIDE quebec have to say and shut up everyone else who thinks Quebec is useless to Canda and so on.
Quebec is the biggest and I belive if the most populated province the second largest, we are the richest (after the oil in Alberta of course) and we are a vital part to Candas economy. If anything, if Quebec would be sold at 5 dollars, the other provincesand territories would be GIVEN away.
Anyway, as a federal quebecer, i also say to the soverignists STFU and that quebec wil never seperate from Quec and will never form a country.
First, with our elections recently over again, we need a system whereby only those interested in running the country as a whole has a seat in Parliment. What a waste to donate seats to a party that does not want the job and only has one goal, to leave Canada. Or, allow the rest of us to vote for that party so that they can fulfil their mandate and we’ll all be happy with the consequences. Secondly, the majority of Francophones that I have met have been decent, level headed people. But the loud minority and the unprecidented weight our political system has donated to them (not to mention the money and time) is just plain stupid…sadly though, having gone through one of the other ways our Government supports this province, language training, I have encountered more racist and narrowmindedness from some of my “teachers” than I thought still existed in Canada. Yes, we all have them in our cultures…it’s individuals not the groups…but WOW…it’s frightening how small minded, selfish and intitled some people believe they are. It is not enough to be that way and point to the Native American culture and say, “We don’t want to end up like that, that is why we have to take a stand as we are!” Not good enough.
Canada is the best Country in the world. We need Unity. I have always been a Quebec lover, my family is from there. However, to break up this Country would be so sad. I understand how they feel,there French and the rest of Canada is English. But this is not the story. I work all over Canada: East Coast, West Coast. There is French in most of the east Provinces, and Most of Ontario. I hate it when I hear people who don’t want to be apart of Canada. If were gonna separate Quebec, then I think Ontario should separate aswell. Then we could join the states. At least they come-together as a Country. They have multi culture there, most of the south states are Spanish. You don’t hear of them wanting to separate from the States. There has been two referendums one in 1980, the people of Quebec voted “NO” and in 1995 they Voted “no”. Why do we still hear about them seperating 13 years later. How many referendums can they have? Some Quebers want to seperate, but thats just how it is. If Ontario had a vote i’d seperate. Then we could join the states. They stand Unitied.
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