Hey, remember Howard Galganov? He's that anglo-rights crusader who was popular back in the 90s, ran for office a bunch of times (and lost) and eventually gave up on our province and moved to Ontario.
Well, Howard doesn't let silly provincial boundaries stop him from opining, which he does now through his website. His latest diatribe talks about the declining anglophone population in Quebec, and he blames it on what's clearly the most logical source: the anglophone media. (Except The Suburban and CIQC.)
His diatribe is long and venom-filled with overuse of the words "sell-out", "racist" and other insults, so I'll boil down his arguments:
- They wanted to be nice. Their refusal to let slip the dogs of war and stab at government with their pens was surely a missed opportunity.
- They didn't support "anglo rights leaders". Translation: They didn't support me. As if the leaders deserve support regardless of whether their positions are sound.
- They're like Jews who supported the Nazis. Nothing quite like a Holocaust simile to get a point across when everything else fails.
- Some say we should celebrate Bill 101's anniversary. That's simplifying the issue a bit. The Gazette's opinion, for example, is that Bill 101 was a compromise that ensured linguistic peace. And even then, it also carried an opinion piece from Robert Libman saying it was devastating to the anglo community. CFCF's Barry Wilson certainly hasn't strayed from the anglo rights beat, and CBC doesn't really have an opinion section.
- They called me "Angryphone". That's because you're always angry.
- They equated me with francophone terrorists. Really? Has anyone called you a terrorist? You're a radical on one side, just like Impératif Français are radicals on the other side. You may disagree with where the middle is supposed to be, but that's something you have to live with.
- They didn't sponsor rallies to raise money for lawsuits against the government. Is that really the role of the media? They raise money for literacy, but they tend to take a back seat to, you know, actually trying to change the law.
- They never said ethnocentric nationalism is wrong. I don't see it that way. They routinely make the point of saying that the anglo and immigrant communities are important to Quebec. They were pretty united against the stupidity in Herouxville.
Galganov's solution to the problem is simple and stupid: Have all the anglos and immigrants leave, shut down tourism and watch as their economy self-destructs.
Howard doesn't seem to understand the problem. It's not that Quebec doesn't understand the value of its English-speaking citizens, though they do take us for granted. It's that many anglophones are leaving the province because they can't be bothered to learn some French.
In other words, the problem is people like Howard Galganov.
Hey Ron
It's ok, we still celebrate in the rain!!!!
HAPPY CANADA DAY RON!!!!!
Good thing others were so cordial to wish you a happy St-Jean, nice of you to return the cordialness! :)
VIVE LE CANADA!!!!
Dear. Mr. Brown
For one thing the russian people defeated nazi Germany 65 years ago and they were not kicked out of these countries the russian system collaspe and they had to leave because russian could not keep up the finance to maintain the troops in eastern Europe.
Gorbachev was the person who did this with his bad political decisions and the United States took advantage of him and not too long ago in an interview he said "I REGRET THE MANY MISTAKES I DID AND I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HAPPEN.TO MY COUNTRY" . Now today Russia as rebuilt hitself as a major superpower and allied with China .
Also you say the United States rebuild Europe that is true but Germany made many major deals in the past few years with Russia to sell many of there products and the rest of European countries depend on russian oil, natural gas and many russian products to survive and trade and many european counries depend on russian investments and that is why many of these countries would rather not angry Russia. so please do not give me any of this american crap.
The United States is one of the most hated countries in the world and that is because of there interference in other countries political affairs and trying to impose there way of life on other countries. Also in early June of this year Russia and China signed the biggest trade deal in the history of the world worth $ 100 billion so please if we were smart we would be better doing business with China and Russia and that would be allot better for us as a country.
Dear t&t
I was once pro-canadian but one day a very long time ago I woke up and saw my first paycheque when I was 17 years of age and saw all the taxes taken off my pay and said to my father what in the hell is this? I had hardly anything left on my pay.
My father's answer was welcome to Canada and to our great way of life that is called democracy and ever since that day I nerver, never cellebrate Canada Day and if you enjoy paying more for everything that goes up on this day then so be it.
CANADA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
It's a beautiful day here in Ottawa, and the sun is shining. HAPPY CANADA DAY.
Mr. Brown
It will raining this afternoon and I hope all night so enjoy your canada day and the increase in prices for bus service and so forth and it will be raining all week so thank God for that.
Also you are lucky you go to bed later while me and my wife we will be going to work by 0130 a.m. so please keep the noise down for us workers.
RON,
I can see that you really are a communist sympathizer. You only support countries that oppress and kill their own people. You even hate your own country: Canada.
HAPPY CANADA DAY, anyway.
Ron
You could always relocate to you beloved Quebec where Canada Day celebrations are much lower in key. The, you could enjoy le fete du St. Jean which obviously if more to your liking
Have a nice day off.
Mr. Brown
Talking about countries that kill what about the United States that send people to be tortured and killed in arab so call demoratic friendly countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt that does not allow proper human rights to it's own people, Quamtanamo Cuba, and other former soviet countries that are torturing people who do not support the American way of life. Even Canada allowes planes that are on mark to land in Gander Newfouland to refuel so they can continue there trip to Gamtanamo Cuba we as canadians we are helping the americans we are part of all this so please keep your democratic crap to yourself.
IT IS TOO BAD IT DID NOT RAIN ON CANADA DAY I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO A GOOD NIGHT SLEEP THOSE DAM FIREWORKS KEPT ME AND MY WIFE AWAKE AND NOW WE HAVE TO GO TO WORK TO SERVE YOU DAM PEOPLE.
Dear Westerner
The only dam rights I have is pay my taxes and eat and sleep if that is possible so please moving to Quebec would be acceptable only if it is a quiet place and No dam kids around and dogs then at least that would be perfect for me and my wife.
Dear Mr. Brown
All night both of us could not really sleep because the idiots around us used fire crackers all night to celebrate this countries birthday and to make noise.
Both of us called the police and then refered us to the noise bylaw office but they were flooded with calls so our sleep was reduce to nothing.
A co-worker could not sleep becasue one of his neighbours was using a chainsaw all day and he is a shift worker, people in this dam country do not give a dam about us and if many of you were to wake up and work our hours just maybe all of you would show us some dam respect.
Then shut up and leave.
RON,
American actions like this are part of the 20% bad. But the Soviets and the Chinese have much worse human-rights records than the Americans. In general, the Americans have done more than anyone to advance human-rights, and this is the 80% good.
The U.S. did not impose its way of life on the countries of Eastern Europe. The people of those countries chose democracy for themselves, and the Americans helped them to achieve it by standing up to the Soviets who were clearly oppressing these people.
Marc
God you are ignorant, me and my wife work like hell to survive on a daily basis and we pay taxes like hell to support all kinds of things that you enjoy on a daily basis thank to us because none of us do!.
So instead of showing your ignarance show us some dam respect that we deserve and that we earn through our sacrifice just like many of our my co-workers did for you while you were sleeping in you bed !!!!!!!.
Do you enjoy a clean store and customer service than instead of of being so dam arrogant say thank you and that is all we ask nothing more than that if not than keep your mouth shutt.
Marc
I work like hell seven days a week and to make sure you enter a clean store
so stop being such a jerk and say thank you and I get to work by 0130 a.m. everyday so be dam thank full that there are people like me and my wife who work and give a dam when you do not.
Ronald:
I have no clue what you're talking about. But what I do know is this: apart from the childish school-yard insults you just hurled at me, you're the one whining and crying like a big baby, yet I'm the jerk?!? HA! Do you REALLY believe that I pay no taxes and don't work my ass off?
Marc
You can insult as much as you want and I do not care at all, I am a shift worker and so are many of the people I work with and all of them tell me about people who do not let them sleep during the day or seem to beleive that nobody works at night.
Well let me tell you this, shift workers are the hardest working people in this country and many of them just like me and my wife we do jobs that most people would not have the guts to do and the stomach fore so to call me names that does not offend me at all and I get more dirty looks from people and more dirty little remarks from ignorant people on a daily basis than you. And I really, really do not care about you or anyone because I beleive only in myself.
Mr. Brown
The U.S. does not beleive in human rights at all if they did they would not be torturing people in Iraqui prisons and in Afgannistan and in many secret prisons in former east-block countries for instance in Romania and elswere Europe.
Mr. Brown, on July 6th Mr. O' Bama is going to Russia to meet with the president of the Soviet Union and many reports show that the americans are very interested installing anti-ballistic missil systems in Russia that would be maned by amrican and russian military personel and the russians are vey interested and I strognly beleive that this would reduce the tensions and bring a sort of peace between these two military powers.
Democracy and Communism are two systems that take advantage of there people in different ways and neither system is good or bad so please do not try to convince me that democracy is better because beleive me it is NOT!!!
Ron:
That's interesting that Obama is going to visit the Soviet Union. I'm not sure where he's going to land since the Soviet Union hasn't existed in nearly 20 years. Get your facts straight.
That's all I have to say to you. Goodbye.
Oh, comeon, there has to be, somewhere on Earth, a tiny-eeny-bitty bit of Ye Goode Olde Soviete Union, just for nostalgia value, no???
"Oh, comeon, there has to be, somewhere on Earth, a tiny-eeny-bitty bit of Ye Goode Olde Soviete Union, just for nostalgia value, no???"
Go look for it Jean..fits your views on society..of course if you like facism..you don't have to travel very far!!
No need to go looking for that. Just travel to Cuba and support the stalinist dictatorship with our hard currencies.
MR. NAIMARD AND RON,
Why do you tend to admire dictatorships? Ron is obviously confused about the role democracy has played in promoting freedom and fairness in many countries, and the role fascism has played in oppressing people.
Why do you hate the Americans? Maybe it's because they speak English. Is it your inbred resentment showing though again?
But I love you all, anyway. "Idiots" as we are :-)
Marc
The Soviet Union as always existed and many of you never studied russian history in school because many of you are jealous of one the riches countries in the world when it comes to natural resources. Lake Balkail is one of the deepest fresh water lakes in the world and Russia as never been conquered by nobody because of it's land mass and the courage of the russian people.
Marc, you are tipical of a westerner you think that anything that is North American is the best way to live ect... but you refuse to accept other countries way of life because you are scared of the unknown just like bilingualisme people who fight against it are scared of it and that is why as a western culture is so stupide.
Jean Naimard
Cuba is a major travel destination for many people especially quebecquers who not only go there for the great scenery but to seek medical attention because Cuba graduates so many docters that they are in high demand around the world and since in Canada we are low in doctors many canadians go to Cuba for that reason.
Because here we have a leader that refuse 250 doctors from Cuba that Mr. Castro offered to come here and immigrated and Harper said NO!!! so stop attacking socialisme ask Harper why he refuse these extremely well trained doctors.
All of you attack the socialist system but it is a system that works great allot of times and sometimes it does not just like ours. So I say VIVE LA CUBA VIVE LA SOCIALISTA VIVE FIDEL CASTRO.
Westerner
Russia is just like a big bear in hibernation, you may think it is dead but in fact it just sleeping and when the day it wakes up look out because the giant bear is not a push over it stands it's grounds and fights to the death. The russian people are that way in nature and just like the bear it is a real fighter. Russia will always fight for what it beleive in and that is why I respect and admire this country allot and the russian people are fantastic people and the love they have for there countries rich and violent history makes them a strong and couragous people. We in the west we have allot to learn about Russia and especially China and we better learn to respect these two great giants because if we do not we are dead as a culture.
Er? Excuuuse me? The russians are extremely paranoid precisely because they have been conquered by a lot of people over the years; the mongols, tatars and also the poles (yes, the poles) routinely kicked russian arse until about 200 years ago.
Don’t blame S. Harper for that, but rather the provincial medical colleges who want to keep the doctor renumeration high by inducing an artificial doctor shortage…
RON,
Living in North America is definitely better than living under a communist dictatorship.
Mr. Naimard
Why should you care about the doctor shortage most quebecquers cross the Ottawa
River and come to Ottawa to get free medical attention in our Ottawa hospitals. Your people are more a burden on an over exausted system than anyting else. So please if you want medical attention take a nice long plane ride and go to Cuba and enjoy at the same time great sandy beaches and blue clear waters.
Also you owe your freedom to Russia and please say thank you to a russian because they defeated the german army and many others 65 years ago.!!!!!!
Mr. Naimard
Harper is an american puppet and I cannot beleive you like this man and for him to refuse doctors for free it tells me how much he cares about the canadian people and I cannot beleive you are coming to his defence. PLease do us all a favor stop sucking on the canadian tax payer and get out of Canada we do not need you we have enough of politicians and welfare people sucking on the tax payers of this country and we do not need quebecquers to do the same.
RON AND MR. NAIMARD,
Ron says: "Harper is and American puppet."
I would rather live as an American puppet, than as a Soviet (ex-Soviet) or Chinese slave. But, of course, this is far from the truth.
Americans love freedom more than anybody, and are far from being "puppets".
This is why I resist the oppression currently happening in the province of Quebec.
Hi John,
You are a trooper. Keep it up.
We are faced with a collusion of mucky-mucks, who, for political reasons, support the usurping of traditional Canadian values. They are not at all concerned about the well-being of the average Canadian. All they care about is their own political aspirations. Unfortunately, the average Canadian does not vote, or understand the issues at-stake, one iota. But, they will be the first ones to complain once the culture that they know and love has been superceded by something alien to their understanding. (and a lot less tolerant, I might add).
Of course, the mucky-mucks will have isolated themselves from this eventuality. And so should we, while at the same time trying to ensure that justice and freedom remain the norm in Canada.
Sincerely, Rob Brown.
Why are "traditional values" considered better than modern values? Have the advances made in women's rights, gay rights, environmental sustainability, freedom of speech, democracy and other areas been overshadowed by declines in other areas over the past 50 years? (I'm assuming the 1950s are where "traditional values" were at their peak).
MR. FAGSTEIN,
Traditional Canadian values such as gay-rights, women's rights, etc., are obviously better than communist values which tend to be against such minorities.
It is strange to me that you could even ask such a question about Canadian values.
So "traditional" is now the opposite of "communist"? And who's communist now? Quebec is, at best, socialist.
Fear Mr. Fagstein
I will stay away from your site for a while shallom
Snortz. Health-care is paid for with our federal tax dollars (we send 12 billion a year to Ottawa). So we can damn well come to Ottawa hospitals. It would be foolish to Québec to pay for duplicate hospitals when there are some available right over the river.
Now, if Ontario cannot manage it’s health-care costs as well as Québec, it’s not Québec’s problem (because the Québec health-insurance pays hospitals less than Ontario’s.
And to think that when I say that the english hate the french, people laugh at me…
To jump from the frying pan of nazification into the fire of communistization? To become slaves? You can thank the US for opposing the sovietization of the world, yes!
Yeah, they like the “freedom” to impose their views on others, less rich people…
What oppression?
“Traditional” “values” are considered “better” in some circles because they allow the expression of the most vile, basic human instincts without the kind of guilt that assails a normally constituted person after acting like a boorish caveman. If it weren’t for "traditional” ”values”, wife beaters, child-molesting priests, insurance salesmen and MBAs could not stomach themselves.
MR. FAGSTEIN,
I was talking about communism in the former Soviet Union, and in China.
But Quebec does not respect Canadian values of equality and fairness either.
MR. NAIMARD,
As usual, you ignore the facts. Quebec receives more from the federal government than it pay in. This is what being a "have-not" province is all about.
How is that? Because Québec is not “fair" to the english because it is primordially french? And they do not give enough "equality" to the english, because the english are more equal than everyone else???
Sorry, pal, but here we have french equality and fairness: it means that everyone gets the same treatment. With us, you just can’t buy yourself a better way.
NAIMARD,
Quebec has laws to deliberately discriminate against English people. When I go to Montreal, I see my language 1/2 size. This is discrimination against me. And you know it. So stop trying to explain it away.
In Quebec there is discrimination. In Canada, nobody is discriminated against.
This is a reasonable restriction against commercial speech. Businesses cannot enjoy human free-speech rights because, well, they are not human, and there has to be restrictions against untruthful advertising. So stop trying to weasel past it.
Dear Mr. Naimard
I am back because I agree with Mr. Brown I am fed up of paying taxes to support you quebec spongers who come over the river and rely on our heath care system for free. May I suggest you all go to to your own hospitals and stop sponging on our health care system.
I agree with with Mr. Brown for once he his dead right on for once and I would like to see an ontario patience cross the river and let see if they get the same service that I you get in our province. As a french canadian that is not pure laine I dout I would get the same treatment or service as a quebecquer in my province.
"Sorry, pal, but here we have french equality and fairness:"
Is that why you have 101? For fairness and equality.
French is like an old grandma, of life support provided by the ROC.
Idiot.
Mr. O'Reiley, a unilingual anglophone, is applying for a bilingual position in the federal government. Normally this would seem to be an impossible proposition, but Mr. O'Reiley has a unique solution to the problem. Let's listen in on the interview and find out. INTERVIEWER: "Mr. O'Reiley, you understand that you must be bilingual to get this job." O'REILEY: "Yes. Of course I ham bilingual. But my henglish is not so good." INTERVIEWER: "Hmmmm... I am puzzled. You indicate that your mother tongue is French, but your last name is O'Reiley." O'REILEY: "No. My mother's tongue was henglish, and my father's tongue was French. But it was grand-mama who raised us up in the good catholic tradition." INTERVIEWER: "So, your mother's name was O'Reiley." O'REILEY: "No. My FATHER'S name was O'Reiley, but he was raised by anglican priests. He was a little bit confused about his identity. INTERVIEWER: "Hmmmmm. (again :-). O'REILEY: "Maybe we can conduct the hinterview in henglish so I can practice my second language." INTERVIEWER: "Practicing a second language is commendable, but we will have to conduct half the interview in French." O'REILEY: "OK." INTERVIEWER: "Est ce que je peut être sur que vous aver les qualifications necessaires?" O'REILEY: "Ummmmmmmmmm... OUI".
A bit of blarney for the record, adapted from the CBC. I leave it up to you to decide if O'Reiley gets the job :-)
Cheers,
Rob Brown.
COMING UP.. The sad reality about how Anglophones are forced to lie about their linguistic abilities... I did, above and beyond my actual computer programming experience. (This is a very sad story... coming up.)
Sincerely, Rob Brown.
HI RON,
Thanks for your support on the issue of Health-care. This is why we pay an extra Ontario PROVINCIAL health-care tax. So that Quebecers can come and use our hospitals for free.
To find out how much we pay, see here:
http://www.rev.gov.on.ca/english/taxes/healthpremium/rates.html
Sincerely,
Rob Brown.
MR. NAIMARD,
When I go to Quebec and see my language 1/2 size, this is discrimination against ME, as a person and a human.
You say that there are "truth in advertising" laws. This is true but they apply equally to all languages.
We pay for it as much as you do with our FEDERAL tax dollars, pal. I know that it is profoundly demeaning for an english to have to share hostpital with the unwashed french (this is why they have to have their very own extra-costly publicly-paid by Québec english hospital), but we pay taxes for it so we can use it too.
Yes, it’s only fair that the english elephant be prevented from squishing the french groundhog, otherwise, they would not be equal.
It’s Ontario’s darn own fault if it cannot control it’s health-care costs enough so to have to put an extra-tax.
I’m sure that the hospitals in Thunder Bay are overflowing with Outaouais people seeking treatment…
Well, advertising to immigrants that Québec is english is false advertising. If the proportions were closer to the truth, english would have tobe 12 times smaller… So you can be happy for our warm tolerance and patience in this, because the english would certainly have no such tolerance…
Mr. Naimard
I will agree again with Mr. Brown you pay nothing to our health care systeme you are just like the North American Indian you take what you can and refuse to accept to be a proud member of this country called Canada.
You quebecquers are nothing but spungers and refuse to pay, you should be forced to pay cash when you enter our Ontario hospitals and contribute to our system in a fair way and French and English Ontarien patience should get priority in our hospitals not quebecquers.
As a french canadian I will say this if you want proper health care please go to Cuba my wife needs to see an eye doctor right away but must wait until November to see one and she his very scared and worried.
Because when the incompetent family-compact decided confederation (because they knew that they had no chance against yankee dynamism), they deliberately refrained from asking our opinion (which was overwhemlingly negative, hence the cancellation of the proposed referendum).
Like north-american indians, we were confederated against our will.
Les québécois sont comme tout le monde: ils n’ont qu’un seul «Q».
We pay dearly for it. On everything I buy, there is a line on the receipt that says “G.S.T”. And on every paycheque stub I get, I have a line that says “federal income tax deducted”.
As a french canadian, you are a prime example of what the english do to the french: a cowering sheep that will suck-up to the english in the hope to get a crumb or two. Nobody respects beggars. It’s no wonder the english treat people like you like shit. On the other hand, when you stand on your feet, display a spine, and you are aggressive and you show that you mean business, you get results.
Maybe you should move to Québec to get better care for your wife’s eyes than she gets in Ontario??? It’s not my fault if Ontario is still managed by the remnants of the incompetent family compact and cannot provide proper care for you.
Mr. Naimard
You attack the english because they kicked our ass at Des pleines d"Abrahames
and you still hate the english for that. I do not kiss english ass but your people do you come over the river into Ottawa for free medical care and anything you can get from us Ontarians because you cannot get these services in you poutine eating province.
If you hate Canada so much than leave get out if not than stop making us french canadians look bad and please give them equality so they can stop complaining against french canadians and that may solve all our problems because quebecquers are a real pain in other french canadians back side becasue of bill 101 your stupide language laws and sign laws.
Please look at Alberta all there signs are in french and english and the same size so to avoid angering both side why can't you do that?.