The ruling stated that although there was a general need for spending limits in
election & referendum campaigns, the Quebec law went too far in limiting freedom of
expression. "The forms of expression provided for are so restrictive that they
come close to being a total ban."
The Quebec separatist government denounced the ruling as an attack on democracy.
Perfect Parti Quebecois logic.
To: Lucien Bouchard
Re: Your Trip To France in September 1997
How embarrassing for you. The French Finance Minister had to
remind you what a negative effect the political instability has
had on your economy, President Chirac was loudly ambiguous in his
support, and even your own newspapers called your trip 'Sad',
'Pathetic', and 'Humiliating'.
The separatiste rag Le Devoir said
"Beggar's Diplomacy: Bouchard did not enhance his image
this week by begging for support for sovereignty from the French
authorities". The Montreal Gazette said "There
was something vaguely humiliating about the Quebec premier going
cap in hand to France for whatever support that country might
care to confer".
To: All Separatists
Commentary - October 1, 1997
Regardless of what your separatist government officials say,
you can forget about so-called 'sovereignty with association'. If
you go, you SEPARATE. There will be no common currency,
passports, defense, or other associations. You'll be on you own.
After subsidizing you all these years, why in the world do you
think we would want to be associated with you if you separate?
You will be required to pay off the full amount of your share
of the national debt, and since it's ok for you to partition
Canada, it will then be perfectly ok to partition the free
(third-world) state of Quebec, for those people that want to stay
in our Canada.
(If you bristle at the term 'third world', then take a walk
around Montreal and count the closed store fronts. If you
separate, who do you think is going to loan you money?)
On his broadcasts on Montreal radio CHOM-FM and Toronto's
Q107-FM, Stern has called French-Canadians "a bunch of
peckerheads" and "jag-offs". He has also said
"There is something about the French language that turns you
into a pussy-assed jack-off."
I called Howard at his home in New York
and asked for clarification on this. He has assured me that he
was in fact referring to separatists as peckerheads and
jack-offs, not French people as a whole.
Je partage totalement son opinion.
