The greatest enemy to truth are not lies
but myths and so writes respected
journalist Michel C Auger in his new
book The 25 Myths of Quebec Politics
That must be debunked.
That's my translation and right up there
there is language. He argues that French
has never been stronger in Quebec and he
points out that ninety four point five
percent of Quebecers are able to have a
conversation in French. Now the language
hawks are always pressing for tougher
restrictions on the use of English and
fewer immigrants because they cry the
wolf is always at the door. Auger says
it's simply not true.
One Quebecor columnist points out that
even if ninety four point five percent
of Quebecers can talk about the weather
in French it means that four hundred
thousand cannot. Wow these people are so
very tiring. The rabbid language hounds
who won't give up until English is wiped
off the face of our city and province.
Well I've got news for them we won't
give up either. But someone in the
francophone political media class
finally had the balls to say what we all
know. Now a low point in this exhausting
debate was the Bonjour Hi - which became an
issue of importance nationale. Now making
its way to a PQ motion in the National
Assembly. Even our best friends the
Anglophone MNAs voted to ask merchants
to drop the word "hi"
O'Shea says it was just a minor
kerfuffle.
 
Auger is right and I think when parties such
as the PQ and the CAQ demand more
restrictions on language it's all about
fear and politics full of sound and fury
signifying nothing. There are new
warnings that more people than ever will
be welcome to Canada this year through
the
woods on a trail now last summer about
250 asylum seekers per day entered at
Rock some Road. And the projections are
that this coming summer the number will
increase to 400 a day. Now resources are
being stretched to the limits as the
premier and he wants Ottawa to help.
The system is just going to burst and that's
real real life and reality. You see the
trouble began when the right honourable
tweeted out his welcome to Canada
invitation in January 2017. Canada became
the equivalent of a open bar with valet
parking. Now most of the asylum seekers
are not fleeing persecution and many of
them are not being allowed to stay but
why has this become only our problem
where is the US and all of this have
they no responsibility? Now I understand
we must show compassion for those who
truly need our help and fear for their
lives.
Last year it was mostly Haitians living
in America who left their Island home
after the big earthquake. Many of the new
asylum seekers are from Nigeria and Asia
but we are facing a summer where we
simply will not be able to handle it. The
federal Liberals are promising to chip
in to help ease the burden but a much
bigger question remains and no one seems to have the answer.
Well this is rich. A
longtime advocate for bicycle safety in
Montreal has received a ticket for
dangerous driving on his Bixi we have
some exclusive video
Seriously though Plateau burrow mayor
Luc Ferrandez did get pulled over by
police by going the wrong way down
St-Laurent this week. And by some
accounts he just about wiped out a
pedestrian at the St-Jacques Street
crosswalk.
she told these Journal de Montreal that
she thought it must have been a lost
tourist. She yelled he was going the
wrong way he ignored her and just
continued on. Now those who blame cars
for all the problems on the streets do
live in glass houses. I think just about
everybody in this city knows the main is
one way.
Nor can rules be one way either.
Sometimes the rules applying to everyone
even the bicycle king of The Plateau.
Justice served! I'm Barry Wilson you can
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