Ivison: PM & a Vision of Canada, PMO's Helene Scherrer & Micaelle Jean, Contact Queen, Comments, JC & Bhupinder Liddar

John Ivison: Mr. Martin and a vision of Canada Aug. 19, 05 -- behind a subscriber firewall -- excellent

We find out that Helene Scherrer, former Heritage Minister and the Prime Minister's advisor who failed to win re-election in Quebec but who was given a powerful position in the PMO got to pick our GG for PM. Her peaen to Michaelle Jean?

"I liked the fact that she [Jean] was a very nationalist Quebecer. She loved Quebec and she never missed a chance to put Quebec on the map" she said.

The former Heritage minister, who lost her seat at the last election, said she was impressed that when Jean gave a speech in the West, she spoke mostly in French.

The highest of accolades? That must have gone over well in the West but the West doesn't matter. Nor does the East except when the Liberals need votes, nor does the North except for exploitation of the oil and mineral wealth for business and friends.

According to Ivison, Scherrer "sounded as though de Gaulle might have been on to something in his prescriprion for Quebec politics." [Vive le Quebec libre!]

Ivison's last paragraph is devastating, "the appointment of a GG whose first allegiance is not the jurisdiction which she represents" and he faults the PM for lack of vision which "threatens to dissolve the country into a patchwork of struggling fiefdoms run by minor league politicians."

The Sponsorship scandal gave some idea of how some [many?] Quebec politicians and their friends view the rest of Canada -- simply as a source of tax money to be siphoned to Quebec and Quebeckers.

IMHO, the Quebec Liberals have been moving toward separation inexorably for years and the ROC have been gulled into accommodating it at every turn. We have allowed Quebec to determine Canada. Quebec politicians have tended not to have a vision of Canada but, rather, a vision of Quebec as superior, separate--special--and leaning toward France. How many hundred years has it taken since the last Governor of New France to turn the tables so that Canadians again have a French Governor in the person of the GG designate?



Contact the Queen Link

[Micaelle] Jean storm still building -- Legion miffed, Queen's e-mail brimming Maria McClintock, Ottawa Bureau, Aug. 18, 05

OTTAWA -- The Royal Canadian Legion has launched an unprecedented review into separatist allegations surrounding Governor General-designate Michaelle Jean as a Tory MP says his website directing people to complain to the Queen has received thousands of hits.

Ottawa Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has had more than 5,000 hits over three days on his website, which urges people to "Contact the Queen" about Jean's appointment and links to the monarch's official site, where they can send her an e-mail.

Now, there is democracy for you. If you want to comment, here is your chance.




RE: New G-G Was Investigated -- sample comments

quebec1 "Look at these" [examples of comments]

[. . . . ] First French Head of State since 1759!

8/10/2005 19:51:56

Message:

An interesting story from the Ottawa Citizen on Michaelle Jean. Forgotten amongst all the hoopla about her being the first black woman to be GG is that she's also the first French Governor since the 1759 conquest. Montcalm (who had slave owning relatives in Haiti) must be rolling in his grave! [. . . . ]

segnosaur

[. . . . ] Actually, whether she supported separatists in the past IS our business, for a couple of reasons:

- Her recent statement claims she and her husband was never a member of the separatist "movement", yet her husband made a statement about "applauding separatist quebec". Without knowing how she felt about separatism in the past, we don't know if A) she's being honest, in which case past ties to separatists were mearly mistakes (and do you really want a GG who is going to be prone to such mistakes?) or B) She really DID support separatism, and she is lying (which is NOT a trait I'd like in any GG, or any political figure for that matter.)

- And if its shown that she did have separatist ties in the past, do you REALLY trust her now? [. . . . ]

Jean Chretien and Bhupinder Liddar

Topic: Just another lawsuit ..lol CanadianGypsy

It seems to be one thing after another when it comes to Paul Martin's minority government. Another lawsuit is looming, from one of their own no less.

Jean Chretien named Bhupinder Liddar as consul general two years back, but due to security concerns CSIS had about him [. . . . ]

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