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Quebec should not be allowed to spit in the face of most of its fellow citizens and oppress its English minority, while happily pocketing nearly $ 13 billion a year from English Canada.
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June 11, 2022 • 2 hours ago • 5 minutes reading • 26 comments Photo by Ryan Remiorz / The Canadian Press
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Almost the entire Canadian political community is now a sleepwalker in a crisis of federalism. Quebec Bill 96, in which Canada’s five federal political parties have accepted without any audible concern, unilaterally amends the Constitution of Canada and eliminates English as the official language that anyone has the right to use in all federal government offices and workplaces. and federally authorized corporations and institutions in Quebec. The whole basis of the 1981 constitutional reforms, including the repatriation of the amendment mechanism and the proclamation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, is a consecration of Canada’s status as an officially bicultural country. English is the primary language of more than 75% of Canadians and approximately 18% prefer to speak English rather than French in Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province. Law 96 also promotes the steady decline of English as the language of instruction in Quebec’s public schools. It is an absolute cultural oppression of the English-speaking population of Quebec and bilingual Quebecers, and a scandalous offense to more than 90 per cent of Canadians outside of Quebec whose main official language is English.
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The system of equalization payments extracted from the most prosperous provinces and paid to those with per capita incomes below the national average was devised in the mid-1950s as a method of asserting the constitutional importance of the federal government after the first Quebec Minister Maurice Duplessis would have forced the federal government of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent to recognize the co-equal right of Quebec (and other provinces) to tax income taxes. Since then, all provinces have claimed this right. While Quebec has been prudently managed fiscally and is now only marginally less prosperous per capita than the average in other provinces, it still receives direct cash transfers from other provinces of $ 1,562 in 2020 for each of the most of 8.5 million Quebec citizens. Much of this comes from Alberta, which has been put at a disadvantage by the current federal government’s war against the province and the oil and gas industries. The equalization payment formula also allows the Quebec state hydroelectric authority to discount the cost of electricity to Quebecers, effectively at the expense of the provinces that contribute to the equalization payment.
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The dissolution of large countries into their constituent parts has become relatively common in recent decades. The disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not entirely the failure of communism: the secession of 14 constituent republics apart from Russia was more precisely a rejection of Russian rule by the many ethnic groups over which Russia, under the Romanovs. as under the Communists, it was asserted. At the same time, Czechoslovakia was divided into two constituent parts, Yugoslavia was divided into seven independent countries (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Northern Macedonia). Part of Indonesia split, and there seems to be a majority in favor of Catalonia’s secession from Spain, although the Spanish central government has prevented this initiative, albeit with some difficulty and not necessarily lasting. With Sinn Féin’s rise to power in Northern Ireland and disagreements between the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and the European Union over trade agreements and the border between Ulster and the Republic of Ireland, secession of Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom and its accession to the Republic of Ireland is once again a possibility. There is likely to be a two-state remedy for the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, the irredentist struggles of Armenians and Azerbaijanis and the disaffection of Turkish Kurds resonate, but the national governments that have been undermined are not very comparable to political institutions. of Canada.
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Canada has the great distinction of having devised its own political institutions, unlike most decolonized countries, and as a result it has been, since 1867, the only transcontinental, bicultural parliamentary confederation in the history of the world. ; it is a system of government of greatness and imagination and is one that has stood the test of time as one of the oldest democracies in the world in continuous operation, along with the United Kingdom and the United States. And at that time, the United Kingdom lost the large province of 26 of the 32 Irish counties that currently exist in the Republic of Ireland, and just two years before the Confederation of Canada, the United States met after what the President Abraham Lincoln decided to describe it as an insurrection. which required four years of a terrible civil war in which an estimated 750,000 people in a population of 31 million were killed and large parts of five separate states were destroyed and burned to ashes.
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In the life of the Confederacy of Canada, France has had a Bonapartist empire, a brief civil war, three republics, a dictatorship that was a satellite of Nazi Germany and a government in exile, an absolute Nazi occupation, and two interim governments. Germany has had a proliferation of smaller states, an autocratic monarchy, a provisional and unarmed republic, a totalitarian Nazi dictatorship, a military occupation of four powers, a division into two antagonistic countries, one of which is a Soviet-dominated communist dictatorship. and the federal republic of the last 30 years. Japan has gone from a feudal hermit kingdom to an autocratic and belligerently aggressive monarchy, a military government and occupation by the United States, and the thriving constitutional monarchy of the past 70 years. Notable are the disturbances and transformations of China, India, Italy, Russia, Spain, and most Eastern European, Arab, and Latin American countries. Therefore, a challenge to Canadian federalism has many precedents.
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The federal government should seek the support of all three anti-separatist opposition parties to suspend any transfer payments to any province that does not recognize the full and equal rights of both founding cultures, and should declare unambiguously that the two official languages will continue to be used. to all federal government jobs and federally authorized corporations and institutions across Canada. Within its long-agreed constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government’s writ must be enforced throughout the country. What is happening now in Quebec is the beginning of the end of our 155-year-old Confederation, and everyone in Canada should be aware of that. Quebec should not be allowed to spit in the face of most of its fellow citizens and oppress its English minority, while happily pocketing nearly $ 13 billion a year as an ex gratia gift from English Canada. We have a country, with or without Quebec.
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