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Aboriginal people of unsound mind and similar Hello

Much of the new Quebec passed me by the ears. Via podcasting, means First la carte Radio-Canada to be precise. And sometimes, a little above my ears, there's the hair rising on my head.

Now therefore in the October 19 edition of the podcast of that means the criminal lawyer Jean-Claude Hébert explains René-Homier Roy cons of a change in the trials of sex offenders (audio available here , second from the top, at about 2:00):

"Because if you have people who are such weak minded, the poor, the indigenous people of that nature which are accused of having committed the reprehensible actions, how can we rely on the fact that they may have the resources, ability to demonstrate the opposite of what one claims they are ... "Wow

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OK, a little history lesson:

First, a group of settlers arrived, took possession of the land, too bad for those who were already there.

Then the group of settlers multiplied, imposes his religion and his Aboriginal culture, and killing some for good measure.

After four hundred years, the invaders set up a commission to decide touring they have nothing to learn the cultures of new immigrants: If the Canadian Multiculturalism promotes cultural differences, if the American melting pot them into the dominant culture, the Quebec model boasts the reject out of hand.

And when someone suggests broadcast on national radio that "feebleminded", "poor" and "indigenous" people of the same "kind", no one reacts.

Shit.

Okay, I understand what it meant Hebert, and I do not suggest it was inspired by any belief that Native Americans are biologically stupid - in fact, his comment suggests an empathetic attitude that recognizes the impact of certain social problems ..

But his formulation, it is not just unfortunate, it is totally unacceptable. Without falling into excesses , the fact remains that it is an assertion that requires apology, at least an explanation.

And while immigrants from tenth generation 'revel in their moral superiority over the rest of humanity, while they find nothing wrong with an expression as "feeble-minded, poor, indigenous , people of that nature, "Well, nobody asks the question:
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we imposed on Native Americans, they have anything for reasonable?

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Group (and bye bye principles)

Sometimes we have a problem and a kind soul offered to us to fix it, because sometimes it is Dr. Jacques Chaoulli who wants to lead us to the Promised Land . His website says, the existence of the Chaoulli Group (note the term "Group", which aims to give a warm and anti-corporate the company) will have a profoundly positive effect on accessibility health care in Quebec.

me at the already inhabited Promised Land mentioned here. This land called Turkey, or else the United States. In both cases, it is quite fair to say that a system of two-tier health allows quick access to quality health care equal to or greater than those of the Quebec system. A little sore and you want to see a specialist within 24 hours? It happened to me, and I guarantee that the experience is not unpleasant.

Obviously, health insurance remains of insurance: you have to read the fine print. Such access is "enabled", but certainly not guaranteed to the entire population. And affirm that the existence of a private alternative would not affect the public financing system is at best a touching naivete (and at worst a dangerous combination of stupidity and contempt). George W. Bush has just vetoed the expansion of a program of free health care for poor children. The question we must ask the proponents of Chaoulli, is first and foremost they believe that Bush would also oppose the measure if it had affected her own children. Touching naivete, no doubt.

This does not mean, of course, there is no problem. But it is difficult to find a valid solution to a problem when one is mistaken about its cause.

I'm always fascinated by the incredible ability to Quebec public opinion has to ignore the parallels between his own problems and those of other countries. We ramble on the theme of aging, but it ignores an ongoing debate also surrounds the financing of health care in the United States. In a country where such funding is first and foremost through employers, no reason to focus the blame on the Boomers in walker.

There are dozens of factors that contribute to dissatisfaction with the Quebec health system, but one of them, in my view central to all appears to be ignored. Télécino: In the movie Sicko of Michaeol Moore describes the extreme case of injustice, a guy who lost two fingers in an accident and whose insurance company refuses to cover for him to sew it. Amazement, indignation and petition of three hundred seventy-five miles names for justice and ring are made. Télécino thank you.

Injustice, yes or no. One hundred years ago, a multimillionaire who suffered a similar accident would never have dreamed of being sew a finger - let alone both.

In fact, the conjunction of two principles that causes a lot of our problems. On the one hand, access to healthcare must be universal and uniform. On the other hand, this access must include the latest developments in medical research, otherwise it is an injustice. These two principles remain fully compatible with unlimited budgets.

The solution of the Chaoulli Group is not a simple alternative without impacting the public health system in Quebec but the choice of one of these two principles (access to the best possible treatment) at the expense of another ( uniform and universal access). The very existence of the Group engages the entire population of Quebec, transforming the decision of a small group of people in social choice.

Oh yes, for a small fee you will have quick access to quality prenatal care. Your children will be born still free, but will no longer need to be born equal. * * *



Andre Drouin, the Hérouxvillain Chief demand independence for Quebec to remove anyone the use of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And he adds, "Look what happens in other countries, do not wait too long."

Andre Drouin not only offers a model of society, it also represents a new model of political action: It puts people on guard against himself. And yet you dare not find it nice?

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The traditional ceremony of Falardeau

When I wake up after a nightmare in the middle of the night (something which portrays Richard Martineau, I'll explain one day), when a car passes me on the feet and tears me a toenail, when it's storm, and I miss my mom and I cry, I just think delusions colonized by Pierre Falardeau and Raymond Villeneuve other. And suddenly I smile, as if I had to take a country of Quebec toune seriously ("It's sunny in my heart / Oh you my sweet / My little Jesus / Yodlayihi ...")

What reassures me, nay, what delights me in Falardeau et al, is the effect of comparison. I remember a CEGEP course where, following a debate on the death penalty when we countered all his arguments, a classmate had given up saying that "Eille, if you think too much, it will eventually collapse. " Obviously, they are people who think more than me.

Still, playing the game, imagine if Quebec was colonized. Not just a little government interference in our affairs, a real settlement with the civilizing mission and everything. And let's say, to maximize the realism, that those who colonized us are Indians of South America. But then

Indians land in question here, set fire to parliament, Prime Minister Dumont exiled in Texas (where his political career continues with a dazzling success as unlikely), we convert to shamanism with great blows of forced ingestion of psychotropic and give the strap to anyone caught speaking another language that Quechua at school. Happiness reigns over the country, generations follow one another in joy and hunting tapir.

Or not. A century later, big break, a wave of postcolonial authorities seized Amerindian. And then it starts to ooze remorse, it finds that acculturation attempts have only succeeded in half, it decides to save the traditional Quebec culture. If you think that the first phase was heavy, wait a bit we are trying to save you.

"It's really horrible, the disappearance of traditional societies," they say. "Imagine the wealth of knowledge about the beginnings of humankind that we lose the diversity culture that disappears when a language no longer used by some grandmother Paspébiac to speak for itself. "

So we must ensure that each parish has its Quebec priest (a Catholic priest, not patchwork ) and that each parishioner goes to Mass on Sunday. No more nonsense, we just save your culture, just as we save a species endangered by creating a national park. While cultural change is a form of defeat in the great war against acculturation and homogenization, and after we have fucked in shit sudamérindienne progressive society will do everything to bring us back three hundred years ago.

OK, we're back to reality. I really need to explain my metaphor?

"Nope," you say (oh my grandchildren, I appreciate your insight, I appreciate), "one wants only that they keep their cultures, people of the South, it does not mean that promoted obscurantism. "

Like, slap on your bongos and sharing your philosophy of harmony with Mother Earth, but not you dare to have different social roles for men and women. The whole debate revolves around the essential difference between "good traditional values" and "bad traditional values." Good, those are the ones that are compatible with the program of Québec solidaire. External pressure to repress them, is of colonialism and cultural genocide. The bad, these are the ones that QS will be corrected by education. The "correct" is a work of development. No no, nothing in this colonialist trend that we have to impose on others to become an idealized version of ourselves. Jesuit missionaries came to convert the "savages" in the 17th century thought the same thing. The only difference was in the classification of a particular cultural trait in one category or another.

Still, it's a shame that the choice between "good" and "bad" values is always made by the colonial power. Me, seen here, from the inside "a subject people, a vassal people, a people subservient to another", I still have my say. Because I'm scared that the colonial authorities sudamérindiennes begin to think that ideas are Falardeau this part of our traditional culture should be protected. * * *



Oh, and by the way, congratulations to Al Gore. Now that his work of education has paid off, everyone is eager to see him take a boat sails to collect her award in Norway.

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The Adventures of Jesus Alabama

I face, as they say, a labor market characterized by strong horizontal character. No, I'm not looking for a job platform. It simply means that in my field, there is worldwide a dozen jobs available each year, and a dozen persons qualified to apply. OK, I exaggerate a little, but the principle remains the same: we do not seek employment in the city where you live, one seeking employment in the knowledge that we asked to move. And given the university funding in Quebec (Or lack of it), I am a big kick in the ass: "Outside, Ambassador, no job for you in the land of Hérouxvillains. It makes me want to come back, like.

The situation was not all bad. It gives me a chance to consider my life in places of exoticism as I realized only today that they really exist. And whenever I meet someone from such a place, I want to accumulate a wealth of practical information and anecdotes to prepare myself psychologically.

Saturday, so I met a student in chemistry who has every reason to remain anonymous, especially since it comes from Alabama. Call it Dixie. Tell me, Dixie, the land of one who made you.

Dixie, ultimately, does not seem super impressed by the country of one who did it. I would say even more, she finds a little twits, people with whom she grew up. And so she told me this anecdote crispy.

was a school day a few years ago, whatever some legal reforms suggest that things do not change quickly in the Deep South. Dixie ran merrily toward the French course Ms. O'Hara (real name). But when he arrived at school she found Ms. O'Hara (real name) to tears. "What, uh, happen", asked Dixie, whose French was not very strong, "that you be crying?". And Ms. O'Hara (real name) told him what had catapulted into a state of shock.

Ms. O'Hara (pseudonym) explained just by sniffing it had just emerged from a telephone conversation with the mother of one of his students, who had been absent from his French class in recent weeks. And the toddler's mother does not excuse it. Not. She even had the ultimate argument to justify the absence of her son. The final punch is coming, I want to remind you that I have changed names, but the story is strictly true.

"My son did not need to learn French. Jesus never learned French, he had enough English to be our Lord and Savior."


"...", tell you.

"Ouch," you add.

And suddenly you just the desire to give generously to the SPCA to save me from the horrible fate of a teaching career in Alabama. I appreciate, m'enfin, I still have a little scared they m'euthanasient hastily.

Obviously, we can take the story as a moment typical "process of identifying a gang of fucking morons," as defined by the philosopher Peter Macleod Quebec. I agree and add that takes pleasure (for those who are confused, the mother tongue of Jesus was actually English, but the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas says that after two or three beers he would to jabber Yiddish - the new novel by Dan Brown is this. salivation). Still

that the very possibility that one can be convinced that Jesus spoke only English speaks volumes not only about the existence ignorance, but also on its way to reorganize the information we have anyway. Without wishing to overmix Thomas Kuhn and ti-Coun (if you do not know what I mean, ha ha, fucking stupid!), It remains that we all tend to organize our knowledge in order to minimize the importance of Part of the story we know, to make connections between things that we consider to be made to maximize the internal consistency of our worldview. Never heard of Aramaic, but I read the Bible in English every day (I play the role of bonnefemme of Alabama, I said to keep my anti-Catholic father starts to roll), so Jesus should speak English.

And this kind of recognition there, it is useful to consider how it applies to ourselves. Few people who know absolutely everything (in fact, some say they do not exist but I can tell you that there are exactly two - I know because I am one of them ). We have m'enfin, you have all areas of ignorance, and if it is easy to live without worrying about some of these (record of time spent without mentioning the number of hairs on a squirrel: 122 years 5 months and 14 days), others have paid a little more serious (is there a vengeful God who will punish you for what you were doing before yesterday evening 9:34 p.m. in front of the TV?). And yet we know it or not, we live with. What is interesting in this story is precisely the mechanism that allows us to "live with" the form of ignorance more than its mere existence.

In a sense it has much to teach the ignorant. Unfortunately, I have bad news for you. The other person who knows everything, well, it Andre Drouin, intellectually penetrating and councilor of Hérouxville. * * *



Andre Boisclair is reluctant to return to sit as a backbencher, and it explains a lot about its electoral setback. The problem was not perhaps no communication with the public, but of competence for the job.

OK, I'm hiding behind a pseudonym, but I do not pretend to lead a country to its independence. And I shudder to imagine the terrible consequences of electing a person as Prime Minister so irresponsible that he prefers not to honor a four-year commitment to his constituents (that is not a lifetime, pyx!) To avoid having to meet reporters.

Oh and in case you would see any link, Alabama increased its support for George W. Bush between 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. A Wheel In The Ditch, a wheel on the Tracks, as said another.