{"id":1820,"date":"2019-12-27T18:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T22:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2019-12-28T17:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T21:10:18","slug":"what-about-collective-rights-of-the-quebec-nation-mr-pallister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/27\/what-about-collective-rights-of-the-quebec-nation-mr-pallister\/","title":{"rendered":"What about \u201ccollective\u201d rights of the Qu\u00e9bec nation, Mr. Pallister?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pallister-1024x287.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1821\" width=\"614\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pallister-1024x287.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pallister-300x84.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pallister-768x215.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Pallister-1200x336.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the video below, the Premier of Manitoba, Mr. Pallister,\ncriticized Qu\u00e9bec for its bill 21 on secularism: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&quot;An erosion of human rights&quot;: Pallister on Quebec\u2019s Bill 21\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVB_Lp9bBJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Pallister invited Canadians to express themselves, whether they are against or even for Bill 21, to use his own words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, as a Canadian deer, Bambi listened. She would like to express herself again on this topic. She is for Bill 21. Of course, it would have been ideal if we did not have to resort to such bills in life. However, this is not the reality of our world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just to clarify, Bambi is not for this bill for the\nsake of being (blindly) for it. Once again, it took her time to digest and endorse\nall the facets of the bill (i.e., the part related to the public education\nsector). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill 21 is made by Qu\u00e9bec for Qu\u00e9bec. Why can\u2019t people\nor politicians understand and respect this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clearly in her mind, Bambi is for Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s own sovereignty,\nas a Canadian province; not any one as it is one of the founders of our great\nand beloved Canada! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qu\u00e9bec had the courage of having a 10-year-old debate\nabout \u201c<em>reasonable accommodations\u201d <\/em>(including unreasonable ones)\u201d. Even\nit has been partly controversial in Montreal, Qu\u00e9beckers made the choice of secularism,\nas a society, and they elected the current government, with a majority of seats.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is insulting not to respect the will of a nation, which is perhaps one of the rare contemporary ones to sill have a healthy national pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why can\u2019t some people understand that there are cultural differences in the conceptualization of secularism? Why do they understand, or at least pretend to understand, all the other cultural differences\u2014but this particular one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Pallister states that he is worried about the human\nrights of minorities? What about his own minority groups (French-speaking Manitobans,\nFirst nations, etc.)? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, last time Bambi checked, \u201cnearly 5,500 homes on Manitoba First Nations houses either needed major renovations or needed to be replaced\u201d, according to data provided by \u201cIndigenous Services Canada\u201d and reported by the CBC on February 6, 2019 (<a href=\"http:\/\/tiny.cc\/d712hz\">http:\/\/tiny.cc\/d712hz<\/a>). Maybe Mr. Pallister&#8217;s energy should be focused locally instead of minding Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s internal affairs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of note, if we go back in recent Canadian history, we learn that Qu\u00e9bec has never consented to the 1982\u2019s Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (<a href=\"https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/const\/page-15.html\">https:\/\/laws-lois.justice.gc.ca\/eng\/const\/page-15.html<\/a>), which has been invoked by Mr. Pallister and many opponents of Bill 21. Despite this, Ottawa imposed it on \u201c<em>La Belle Province<\/em>\u201d (French reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2017\/04\/18\/la-charte-oubliee\">https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2017\/04\/18\/la-charte-oubliee<\/a>) . &nbsp;And now, ironically, the opponents of Bill 21 want to use it as a legal weapon against Qu\u00e9bec. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is this fair?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a conclusion to this post, and as an indirect, more articulate reply to Mr. Pallister, Bambi would like to share a translation of an article by Mr. Mathieu Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9 (<em>Journal de Montr\u00e9al; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/tpetkp8\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/tpetkp8<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c2019, year\nof Qu\u00e9bec pride<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is never easy to write the history of a nation in real time. What seems to be of critical importance to us today may be considered trivial tomorrow. Conversely, events that seem insignificant today may later be considered as being essential.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are never fully aware of the historic moment we are experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, sometimes, deep inside, we are convinced that something has just happened and that we have just taken a step further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what happened in Quebec in 2019. After nearly 25 years of post-referendum lethargy, Qu\u00e9bec nationalism has returned to the heart of our political life. Its recomposition had been visible for a long time, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Secularism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the crisis of reasonable accommodation, Qu\u00e9bec has been engaged in a major reflection on the refoundation of its collective identity. The media were generally unfavorable. Those who did not repeat the song of the happy diversity, like parrots, were considered as having a mean, retrograde mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years, it is the idea of \u200b\u200bsecularism that has imposed itself. Through it, Qu\u00e9beckers expressed a fundamental value. They also found a way to finally extricate themselves from the Canadian multiculturalism by laying the foundations of their own integration model, remembering that one could not really integrate into Qu\u00e9bec without integrating into the historic French-speaking majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than a decade, Qu\u00e9beckers have debated this issue, but have never been able to achieve anything politically. It must be said that the Liberal government [Mr. Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9 is likely referring to the provincial Liberal party] turned against its own people, which it despised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of Fran\u00e7ois Legault\u2019s Bill 21, brought by Simon Jolin-Barette, represents, from this point of view, more than a bill on secularism. It is a symbol of national affirmation. Qu\u00e9beckers said it once again: Masters in our own house!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make no mistake: if the government is still on a honeymoon with Qu\u00e9beckers, it is less so for its management than because it has been able to fulfill a fundamental identity aspiration. By giving us our first great collective victory in 25 years, it has been able to revive the pride of a nation wounded by history. He should now let us know what will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this saga is not over. In some English-Canadian newspapers, columnists who openly cultivate a form of anti-Qu\u00e9bec racism, if you allow me this expression, accuses us of ethnic supremacism. The judges are openly wondering how to bring down Bill 21. In English Canada, there is a defamation campaign against Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pride<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qu\u00e9beckers are rediscovering the following: it is sufficient for our people to assert themselves to be hated. Anti-Qu\u00e9bec hatred is alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sooner or later, it is necessary to know it, the Legault government will have to defend Bill 21. It will have to do it firmly, without false moderation. I am inclined to believe that it will be up to the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will confirm that 2019 was not just a good year in our political life, but it was also the start of a national renaissance that could take us far.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>End of Mr. Bock-C\u00f4t\u00e9\u2019s article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoodForThought-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1823\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoodForThought-3.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FoodForThought-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 114px) 85vw, 114px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For Bambi&#8217;s earlier posts on Bill 21, you may wish to read:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/01\/test-yourself-with-bill-21-multiple-choice-questions\/\">http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/12\/01\/test-yourself-with-bill-21-multiple-choice-questions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/naziland-qc-facals-article-is-food-for-thought-whether-you-agree-or-not\/\">http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/11\/05\/naziland-qc-facals-article-is-food-for-thought-whether-you-agree-or-not\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/mr-richard-martineau-is-right-the-globe-mail-editorial-on-quebecs-bill-21-sucks\/\">http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/mr-richard-martineau-is-right-the-globe-mail-editorial-on-quebecs-bill-21-sucks\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regardless of what the future will bring with regard to this bill, may 2020 be a beautiful year for Canada and ALL its provinces and territories, that is including both Manitoba and Qu\u00e9bec!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister-1024x311.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister-1024x311.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister-300x91.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister-768x233.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister-1200x364.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/FinalPallister.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the video below, the Premier of Manitoba, Mr. Pallister, criticized Qu\u00e9bec for its bill 21 on secularism: Mr. Pallister invited Canadians to express themselves, whether they are against or even for Bill 21, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1820"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1820\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}