In a busy Parisian café, a tourist is sitting alone, enjoying a crème
caramel. Another tourist approaches:


Me sit here?



No problem...



Thank you, very nice...



Are you on vacation?



Me, I arrive yesterday...



What country are you from?



Norway. You?



From Québec.



Québec? Me not know Québec...



Québec... near the Atlantic, next to Ontario, the Great Lakes...



No, me not know these places.



Never mind then, I'm from Canada...



Ah! Canada! Canada I know! So why you tell me you come from Québec?



Because, my first country is Québec!



Oh, you were born in Québec and immigrated to Canada....



No, no, I was born in Québec and I stay in Québec...



Oh, then your father is from Canada?



No, no, my father, my mother, my wife, my dog, everybody, they come
from
Québec....



So why you say Canada?



For goodness sake, because you say you don't know where is Québec!



OK, but if you say you not know Norway, me I not say that my country is
Japan...



Canada isn't Japan. Canada, it's my country.



Oh, your country not Québec anymore?...



My country is Québec. But my country, it can be Canada too, if the
person I
speak to not know where is Québec, Tabarnak!



Me not understand...



Look, it's simple: I come from the Province of Québec, in the country
of
Canada.



Ok! But me not ask you what province you're from, I ask you what
country.
Me, I come from Lofoten region in Norway, but I answer you Norway when
you
ask me what country I come from...



I know, I'm not stupid, Câlisse! But me, when they ask me what country
I
come from, I answer Québec. Even if it's the name of my province. For
me,
it's my country.



Oh, now I understand. You are a separatist, you want your Quebec
province
to be your country...



Are you crazy, Hostie? I don't want to know nothing from that !



Me, I not understand anything anymore.



I tell you before, it's simple! You ask me what country I come from, I
answer Québec because Québec is my country, but I don't really want it
to
be my country, it would be too much trouble. I just want to say it. So,
why
don't you just let me say it?



Me all mix up. You have passport from what country: Québec or Canada?



CANADA, Hostie!



So why you not tell me Canada right away?



Because it don't feel right. For me, Canada is Anne Murray, the Calgary
Stampede, the Mounted Police, SARS, it's not my home all that. Home,
it's
La Famille Plouffe, Séraphin Poudrier, La P'tite Vie, Félix Leclerc, La
Poune, Les Canadiens de Montréal, Les Bougons... Do you understand???



Less and less...



Listen, forget all that . Ask me another question.



Ok, what town you come from?



Mmm..., I don't know anymore...



You not know what town you come from?



Yes, yes, I know what town I come from, but my town it merge with
another
town, but soon it is going to demerge from the town that was supposed
to be
my town...



Oh, that very complicated! When you write your address, what do you
write?



I don't know anymore. Before, I used to write Hull, but Hull changed to
Gatineau, but they tell us to wait 3 years before stopping to write
Hull to
not mix up the mailman. But now, the Liberals they pass a law that make
it
ok for Gatineau to be Hull again, but I don't know if we have to wait 3
years to be able to write Hull, or when the 3 years are passed, if we
have
to write Gatineau for 3 years, and after we write Hull. Unless, of
course,
the PQ come back in power and we remerge with Gatineau, then we'll have
to
write Gatineau for 3 years.



I leave now; I have hurt in my head...



It's so simple : My town is Hull, my country is Québec. But if you
prefer,
my town is Gatineau and my country is Canada.



OK, I think I understand!



It's about time. Anyway, it was fun talking to you, if you come around
where I live; maybe you come and see me...



OK, but where? Hull in Québec or Gatineau in Canada?



You're a pain in the ass. Forget the whole thing



That, my friends, is the portrait of Québec!

-----------------------------------------------------------------
ani

The new PQ boss says he would go for another referendum on Quebec seperatism if he wins in 2008.

The irony here is Quebec seperatists talk of referendum for quebec but they don't recognize the fact that this land was illegaly occupied by the french by decimating the native population. Ineffect these french people looted the land from the natives and now they talk of self-determination.

Before PQ guys came into picture Montreal was the biggest city in Canada and a thriving business hub and thanks to the tantrums of PQ guys many businesses moved to Toronto making Toronto the business capital of Canada. Toronto overtook Montreal as Canada's business capital and also as the largest city as the steady influx of skilled professionals and businesses in the 70s from Montreal helped boost Toronto's economy.

PQ hasn't learn't the lesson yet not to kill their Golden goose (montreal) already half dead because of their language policies. A good example of Montreal's lost glory is Montreal's Mirabel airport which was built with a lot of fan fare to serve as the second airport for then largest city in Canada. Today, Mirabel is almost closed.

Many of these Quebec seperatists don't realize that as being part of bigger market they get a lot more than what they give back to the federation.

As for their french language fanatism, they better realize that their main export market is mainly english speaking United States

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Under cover mosque
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2668560761490749816&ei=ZdwxSc74L4ig-AGZ4YHiDQ&q=undercover+mosque&hl=en" target="_blank">http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2668560761490749816&ei=ZdwxSc74L4ig-AGZ4YHiDQ&q=undercover+mosque&hl=en

Quebec gets more money from the federal govt than any province in the coutnry. Quebec gets more than it gives back.

I saw a documentary on CTV that showed what was going on during the last referendum. Millions of $$ in truckloads left Montreal banks on the night before the referendum. Even they know it very well that if the province seperates from Canada, they will be nowhere. But still its the super ego of majority of the francophones that's causing seperation calls. I work with francophones, majority of them dont want to be called canadians.