Good for Quebec

[dieseluphammerdown]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story ... uebec.html


The rest of the country should take notice of this and start dealing with these type matters the same instead of caving in and worrying about being politically correct.

Canada has it's own rules and laws that must not be compromised.

Good on Quebec.!

[The Green Barbarian]

yet whenever anyone points out anything negative about Quebec you are the first one to scream "racist". You can't have it both ways dude.

[WhatThe]

Ya, and one of those rules is freedom of religion and because some people wet themselves at the thought of someone carrying a knife we should suspend that right.

It's absolute sacrilege to remove that dagger from it's sheath.
This kind of rhetoric scares me more than some ceremonial dagger.

[SpaceAddict]

It's not Quebec. Try to get into any airport with one of those. The building is just exempt from the Federal law. Nothing to do with Quebec. Just common sense.

[Homeownertoo]

It's not Quebec. Try to get into any airport with one of those. The building is just exempt from the Federal law. Nothing to do with Quebec. Just common sense.

You see no distinction between an airplane and the National Assembly? Was there some threat they would hijack the building and fly it into the World Trade Center (whoops, those ones are already gone)?

There was no reason to prevent them from wearing the kirpan in a building when there was zero prospect of them slicing open a member of the assembly and when there is security present. I have little sympathy with those who claim Canadian cultural values are so malleable as to bend to every whim of the latest arrival, but this shows a lack of common sense, and in no realistic was can this situation be compared with an airport.

[SpaceAddict]

It can be under the same rules. Those rules don't apply to some buildings. Last time I checked there both still buildings.

[grammafreddy]

I've had enough political and religious correctness. Good for Quebec.

[Al Czervic]

This what fascinates me about politics. Quebec is already the most heavily indebted province in Canada, they are facing a sales tax increase to 9.5% next year, fuel tax increases every year, huge increases to education and MSP premiums and still they face a nearly $ 5 Billion dollar deficit.

Yet in spite of all that, when there is not one documented case of a ceremonial Kirpan causing harm in any legislative building in all of Canada this becomes a big issue. Politics is sometimes a very screw game.

[The Green Barbarian]

Here's an insight into why Quebec is so indebted - someone I know worked in the BC Welfare office and every year she'd get inundated with requests from migrant French fruit pickers looking to go on welfare after fruit picking season was over. They'd be shocked when they were told they had to "qualify" as in Quebec all they had to do was fill out a form and the cheques started flowing. Quebec is a ticking time bomb waiting to implode.

[Al Czervic]

Here's an insight into why Quebec is so indebted - someone I know worked in the BC Welfare office and every year she'd get inundated with requests from migrant French fruit pickers looking to go on welfare after fruit picking season was over. They'd be shocked when they were told they had to "qualify" as in Quebec all they had to do was fill out a form and the cheques started flowing. Quebec is a ticking time bomb waiting to implode.

True. But at least when they do, their legislature will be free of ceremonial kirpan’s !

[The Green Barbarian]

Here's an insight into why Quebec is so indebted - someone I know worked in the BC Welfare office and every year she'd get inundated with requests from migrant French fruit pickers looking to go on welfare after fruit picking season was over. They'd be shocked when they were told they had to "qualify" as in Quebec all they had to do was fill out a form and the cheques started flowing. Quebec is a ticking time bomb waiting to implode.

True. But at least when they do, their legislature will be free of ceremonial kirpan’s !

and anything written in English.

Another story - a Japanese friend of mine (he's actually from Japan) tried to do a deal with an airline based in Quebec (he worked for a Japanese travel company). He got through the VP level but then the deal stalled because the president wouldn't speak English and the Japanese man couldn't speak French. The president of the airline could speak English, that wasn't the issue, it was just that he wouldn't, so therefore communication reached a standstill. My Japanese friend was shocked - his exact words were "what kind of country is this? They blow up a multi-million dollar deal because they won't speak English?" I said "Yup - and someday they'll have to pay for that attitude, when the rest of Canada finally refuses to keep subsidizing it".