Submitted by Andre Audet on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 23:29.
Today is the national day of Québec. We call it national day but the fact is that, politically, Québec isn't a nation. A foreign government is still writing our laws, strengthening its foreign rule every day through immigration and the maintenance of a two official language policy. Because of this, Montréal will soon become an English speaking city. Québec doesn't directly face overpopulation--in fact, population numbers here are going down, like in Europe. Meanwhile, the immigrant/Québécois ratio is steadily going up. It's not hard to realize that multiculturalism currently is destroying our nation.
One might then ask: "So why do you celebrate?"
Like everywhere else, the Québecois don't like to face reality, and suffer from a profound lack of higher values. Add the fact that this is a good pretext to get drunk and have a day off from work, and suddenly there's a good reason to "celebrate." The fact that we as a nation has struggled to survive for 400 years doesn't interest them at all. Yes, 2008 is what we might call a "special" year as it marks the foundation of the oldest city of America. Québec city is 400 years old.
Samuel de Champlain was the founder; a man of courage, bravery and determination. Even at that time he had to fight against mercantilism; against the merchants who didn't want to see him establishing a colony, out of fear of losing a lot of money. With the help of the natives, he fought the merchants, the ocean and the winter--and he won. But, 400 years later, we're still a colony, because we like to think that way. We are afraid of taking the risk, afraid of thinking for ourselves and taking control of our own destiny, like a teenager who refuses to grow up. Unfortunately, de Champlain is no longer a hero, nor are our old patriots like Riel, Chevalier De Lorimier, Bourgault and Papineau. Our hero is a 50 goal scorer from the National Hockey League. People don't care about the past or the future, what they want is avoiding any adversity in the present.
All of this because of our profound lack of values. This lack of meaning in our lives has turned this nation into a place where courage and bravery have no importance. Is independence possible in a situation like this? I don't think so.
But, there's still hope for us. We didn't survive 400 years for nothing. Our ancestors were proud. They chose to live as French even when the money was controlled by the English. Colonized Québecois like to say that we are a bunch of losers because we lost the war against the English on the plains of "Abraham." The patriot's revolt had no result, the FLQ ("Front de libération du Québec") was crushed by the Canadian army, and we've lost two referendums on independence. To me this doesn't mean that we are losers, but that we are proud fighters who fight for our people. Independence will be possible if we remember the courage and the joy of life of our ancestors. 400 years of history is short compared to old Europeans countries, but this is our history and we have to fight for it. Vive la liberté! Vive l'indépendance!
André Audet is Editor and columnist of Société Nihiliste Du Québec, promoting philosophical nihilism and political independence for Québec
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Having been to Quebec a few times, I say that it is definitely a much different "province" than the rest of Canada. Regardless of whether the Quebecois mixed with the scots or irish, they still have a completely different culture than the rest of Canada and I say that they should definitely separate themselves. If they don't, they will eventually become absorbed in the shit American culture and become a shit hole like Toronto and the rest of southern Ontario. Montreal has in fact already become like that.
La St-Jean-Baptiste: Independence To Québec
Your essay indicates that you have been indoctrinated with Separatist lies. Quebec is not a nation by any defintion. Quebec is a province in Canada, nothing more nothing less. You are not special just because you mother tongue is French. In fact, the Quebecois are not really French but rather they are people of mixed descent as they have been intermingling with the Aboriginals, Irish, Scots, and English for centuries. The Quebecois are not a pure race by any means. You can revise your history to suit your denial, but no else is listening or believing your propoganda. You all behave as thought Quebec was still New France. It's not.
France lost the war because France was finacially broke. In fact, Britain offered to return 'New France' to the French but they refused it, preferring to take possession of Guadalupe for the sugar. The Quebecois were abandoned by the French. After the war, the citizens of New France were given a choice, you can freely leave New France to return to France or to go to another French colony and retain your French citizenship, or stay here and become British citizens. Tens of thousands decided to stay and those people are your descendents; British citizens by definition.
The British (Irish, Scot, English) controlled the money because they had the brains and drive to establish successful businesses. The French did not for reasons out of their direct control (Catholic church, facsist governments). They were never controlled by the British for oppressive reasons. They were controlled by the British because the British assumed control where the Quebecois did not. Get over it. Everyone knows that fighting against oppresion is a class struggle not a racial struggle. The rich prevail, they always have and always will. Quebec history tells us that the affluent Quebecois exploited there own people at will.
The patriot's revolt which included Irishman, Scotsman, and Englishmen was a struggle against the injustices of the times, it was not a revolt to win independence from Britain. You hear this lie all the time as the Separatists expropriate and hijack the spirit of these people to further their self serving ethnocentric agenda. Quebec has been ethnocentric all along. The early inhabitants were Catholics and they brought to New France their hatred of Protestants whom they slaughtered by the thousands. The Quebecois are racists and always have been. Lead by the church they instilled ethnocentric values in their society which still exist today.
Proud fighters, what a joke. Fighting for what? You lost already. Your ancestors made choices you cannot undo. You have no honour. You disgrace the past, distort the present, and paint the future with false dreams and expectations. You are not proud fighters, you are treasonous, manipulative agitators. You try to break up the country that feeds you. Disgusting. You want to separate from Canada because you hate it so much but at the same time you want to keep your Canadian citiizenship, use Canadian currency, and remain under the protection of the Canadian military. You people have no honour or dignity. You proudly remember the FLQ. They were murdering terrorists. The very idea that you would hold them up as proud fighters speaks volumes about the collective state of mind in Quebec. Fascist, evil, lying bastards. By the way Riel was actually an American citizen who wanted to take control of Manitoba.
You people are so low you will believe and repeat any lie no matter how repugnant just to keep your selfish ignoble pursuits alive, which are all supported by demagoguery. Truely I have tried to look at the issues from your point of view and it made me sick. You are deluded and pathetic.
I guess I have to clarify some points here.
I don’t like to argue with someone who’s so prompt with free insults and putting words in one mouth just for the sake of proving his argument, but I guess I have to clarify some points here.
It is right that we are no longer “Nouvelle-France” (where did you see me write we were?). In fact we were calling ourselves Canadian long before the conquest, we already had our own identity BEFORE the conquest. Identity that has been stole by the British. They probably find out it was a good way to erase our history, the only identity Canadian have today is the one they stole from us, hell, they went and stole our own national anthem. In fact Canadians are only British in disguise, their foreign policies speak for themselves and their ministers pledge allegiance to the Queen. But, this is no big deal, Canadian’s just a word, and we find another one to replace it, which is Quebecer, that will do if we don’t forget our history.
It is right to say that the French let us down (where did you see me write they didn’t?), and you know what? We don’t give a shit about that, but did it cross your mind that it is the reason why we didn’t want to go back to France when the conquest happen? The French denies us, so we did. We had the choice to stay Canadian, this is what we were at this time and the British fails in their assimilation.
It is also right to say that we are not a “pure race” (where did you see me write we were?). We mixed with the natives, Irish, Scots and English for centuries. And after writing that you have the guts to write that Quebecers are racists and always have been? Where’s your logic? British were Protestants and they bring their hatred of Catholics here too, we hated ourselves, but where did you read that we slaughtered Protestants by the thousands? This is ridiculous. We weren’t the ones hanging out people; British on the other hand we’re pretty good at it.
Canada is the country that feeds us!? We are more than able to feeds ourselves thank you. You forgot that we pay taxes to the federal government which is the CANADIAN government. We don’t have all this money back, do we? I don’t like to speak about money but, I’ll give you a very simple example. Last year, Quebecers give 182 millions in research for nuclear electricity and petrol. Quebec had almost no nuclear electricity production last year and everyone knows that we don’t have petrol either. So where is this money? In Ontario and Alberta for sure. In exchange how much did Quebec receive for their hydroelectricity research? Nothing. But we sold it for nothing to Ontario for many years of course. So, I’m asking you. Who feeds who? We don’t want your money, we don’t NEED it.
This is untrue that we hate Canada. A few of us does, it’s true, but I guess they have good reasons for that and I don’t blame them. I for myself don’t hate Canada. I just want my nation for my people; we want to make our own decision in the face of the entire world. If you are the one who refuse this for us and don’t want us to exist then you are the one that is full of hatred. We built this place with our OWN hands and we want it for ourselves, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
The hatred in your comment
The hatred in your comment shows only one thing :
Things were X, then they should stay X.
You say Quebecers lost, Quebecers are low-class people, etc.. In fact, maybe. Maybe they are. But why should they stay ? We're not talking about overcoming the elite class in position like French Revolution. We're talking about evolving as a nation to become better : better individual within a better society.
You're showing no respect to the principle of nationalism and localisation. Plus, you're not understanding the basics of the situation : for example you say we have no honor because we use Canada currency. Let me tell you that it's Canada currency because we still live in Canada, no mather what.
Until you show some proper respect and understanding of the situation, you should stop doing false propaganda (as you say). You have been indoctrinated by Federalist lies my friend.