Someone Needs To Bring Him Up To Speed
photo credit: vieux bandit
French President Nicolas Sarkozy this weekend:
“Frankly, if someone would like to tell me that the world today needs an additional division, we do not have the same reading of the world,” Sarkozy said Friday in Quebec City.
We normally don’t care what foreign leaders say about our internal affairs, but this is different, because it comes from France. France’s view of Quebec has a mythical significance to separatists.
Except for one thing.
Quebec has used separation to ride through each recession the past 40 years – and have always succeeded doing so.
The reason the Bloc gained isn’t because they didn’t want Harper or the Liberals, or because of cuts to the arts… it’s because they can see what is coming up fast – a recession.
Quebec has rising unemployment, a slowing manufacturing base, and is one of the first provinces to feel a recession.
As a province that has always taken more than it’s fair share of transfer payments, the separation threat has always resulted in increased payments, contracts and public works projects – all funded by Canadians.
Sarkozy wasn’t informed of this strategy. Maybe now they’ll bring him up to speed.