Comment 63049

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted May 04, 2011 at 06:17:04

There are some intriguing comments...from Canadians, at least that's what they claim...in the Comments section of this Salon article:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_r...

The truth is that the Conservatives have finally accessed the immigrant vote in Canada (that is in fact something that is different from the US) and got them to buy into their very strange narrative. Ontario went Tory in this election. That was the story. The big, long term story. We could have these thugs for a very long time. And at the end there will be nothing left: the one thing the Liberals knew, idiots though they were, is that Canada needs some kind of central government (not just to keep the Americans at bay), and always needs some way to keep the polarization of the country from turning into Quebec vs. the rest of the country at a fundamental political level as well as geographic. That has now happened. We are now entering an era when we will have a right wing rest of the country with no interest in a central government, and a social democratic Quebec (to which the NDP just pandered inexcusably about the Constitution). The Bloc Quebecois (gone, thank goodness) never got anywhere with this at the federal level, but this time it is different -- the voters in Quebec just made this unignorable and gave this whole poisonous debate one last federal throw of the dice by voting for the NDP, a throw of the dice which will go nowhere. The rest of Canada is no longer interested in the Quebec issue. This is a recipe for real, real trouble very shortly in an era of coarsened Canadian politics.

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