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losartin		2005-11-11 01:08:30 PM

impaler: Everybody wants their leaders to be hip.

I Totally agree...But first we need to elect a LEADER.

rhiannon		2005-11-11 01:09:03 PM

See that's the thing Sponsor Me!. I was listening to a CBC Radio One interview with him and when asked what he would do if he found one of his own Ministers using coke, he said "I'd have a talk with them". That bothered me for some reason.

wh0mprat		2005-11-11 01:09:30 PM

Although formerly politically dominated by an authoritarian Catholic Church, Puritanism has no place in Quebec culture, and most of us consider the prudish attitude associated with English Canada to be a result of England and Americas conservative social influence.

In Montreal, cocaine use, although frowned upon, was widespread throughout the 80s, he said, and there is a general feeling that if Anglos frown upon certain behavior (i.e. sex and drugs), then it must be OK.

God, I love this country.

Farkin A		2005-11-11 01:16:40 PM

Actually old fart henry responed if you want to read the thread.

Alex Chilton		2005-11-11 01:17:24 PM

2005-11-11 01:03:36 PM Walljasper

Drug use adles the brain. It may make you think you feel better or smarter...ah, feelings vs. facts. Which brings us to Canadian libs voting for coke-tooting Candian libs.

What's so farking remarkable about "birds of a feather flocking together."?

Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

Thanks for wrapping that up in a neat little package for everyone. I now see the light. Thank you.

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:18:34 PM

Wow great "news". It's like 2 months old lol.
Does it really matter what he ate or if he drinks his piss?

Maudits Quebecois, deniaisez!

I guess you mean something like dniaisez-vous?

Anyway, I'll a take a coked guy before a retard like Bush any time. It's all about brains. Hmmmm braaaains.

WWII - big brother US: `Hey little Canada, start without me. I'll catch up (in two years).'

And the only reason they started at all was because of Pearl Harbor.

I love canadians. They are so worried about the US and GWB. Most Americans could care less who runs that "country" north of us. They must really have a little brother syndrome or something.

Is that a pathetic attempt at trolling? Just wondering.

You are now free to post your misconceptions about Quebecers in general. thanks.

rbaron71		2005-11-11 01:19:55 PM

The correct term is actually USAer.

wh0mprat		2005-11-11 01:19:58 PM

I agree with the article.

This man doesn't lie about being gay. He doesn't lie about being a cokehead while in office.

Therefore, I believe that he is an honest man. I think we can believe him when he says things.

Who was that governor who came out and had to resign in disgrace? Yeah, there's some integrity.

rhaaa_lovely		2005-11-11 01:20:15 PM

"Canadian libs voting for coke-tooting Candian lib"

well, he's considered part of the right wing of the separatist movement.

that's according to Qubec's standards, 'cause down south he'll be classified as a pre-bolchevik commie.

clevershark		2005-11-11 01:20:55 PM

I don't know what people see in Boisclair, he doesn't have much of a message and he clearly doesn't know how to handle press questions about his former coke habit. Does this guy think that the opposition parties will lay off at election time?!?

He should withdraw. He risks doing the party big damage in an election which should otherwise be a cakewalk for the PQ.

Guido Libido		2005-11-11 01:23:05 PM

oldfarthenry:

"This from a country that elected Dubya? Twice?"

DINGDINGDING!
oldfarthenry Wins with a KO in the first round!!!

Somebody pick up Farkin A.

/wish I wuz a drunken lesbian from Canadia

Wake 'n Bake		2005-11-11 01:23:12 PM

Hopefully no one beat me to making a joke about Bush's past cocaine use and sagging approval rating?

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:23:22 PM

I was listening to a CBC Radio One interview with him and when asked what he would do if he found one of his own Ministers using coke, he said "I'd have a talk with them". That bothered me for some reason.

Why? The key part is "using coke". It's not the same if he was currently taking coke and if he did in the past.

Actually old fart henry responed if you want to read the thread.

Wtf are you talking about?

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:25:33 PM

CanadianCommie: and It's excellent to see a politician honest about their mistakes. Problem is this guy is a seperatist. Otherwise i'd think he was a cool guy.

Most Quebecois are Separatists. It's like they're afraid to admit that maybe it's not a very good idea, sort of like how a lot of Americans get shiat for voicing negative opinions about the Bush Administration. You know, "Why do you hate America?" If any Quebecois politician wants to be elected to any office, he/she has to claim to be a Separatist, otherwise it's like running as a Democrat in Texas. And I've found that not all Separatists are vocal about it. I was talking to one of my Quebecois friends once about Separatism(I was biatching about another Quebecois friend who is a very vocal Separatist), and she told me she's a Separatist, too. It really surprised me because she'd never said anything about it before or said anything bad about Anglos, and she just doesn't seem the type. It makes me wonder if people really believe in the Separatist movement, or if they just say they're Separatists because they think, as a Quebecois person, they're obligated to?

And just because we're talking about Canadian politics, here's Stephen Harper and Paul Martin:

Farkin A		2005-11-11 01:27:42 PM

Who exactly is the leader of your country? oh thats right i could care less. When you guys have a population bigger then California come talk to me.

Sausage		2005-11-11 01:27:47 PM

I live in Montreal, and although I had heard about the coke thing, I didn't know that he was gay. Not that I care about his sexual orientation. The newspapers here never made an issue about his gayness, because in a civilized country, such things don't matter. Of course in a backwards place like Texas, he's not a politician, he's a "gay politician". Why should this even be an issue? For a place that's all about "sexual morals", people in Texas sure spend a lot of time obsessing about sodomy.

Although I do find the fact that he was snorting coke while a minister to not be a good thing, kudos to him for admitting it. I'm sure quite a lot of politicians are snorting rails, popping pills, getting drunk, and all sorts of other things. But how many of them would choose to admit it rather than lie and deny? Not many.

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:28:01 PM

What the hell? My image showed up in the preview!

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:28:37 PM

that's according to Quebec's standards, 'cause down south he'll be classified as a pre-bolchevik commie.

Funny :)
But that's true lol.

Sponsor Me!		2005-11-11 01:29:19 PM

psycho666, tu ne peux pas mettre d'accents ici. Et oui, je voulais dire deniaisez et non deniaisez-vous. Franchement, on crit pas une dictee icitte feque j'peux parler comment moe j'veux sti'

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:29:35 PM

Let's try this again. It keeps saying it's a non-image URL. WTF?

/suck it, ImageShack

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:31:16 PM

Anyone know of a better image host than ImageCrack?

Euler007		2005-11-11 01:31:21 PM

Nobody cares if he did coke, it's mainly that hypocrit biatch that's running against him that's trying to take the moral high ground.

Btw, not that anyone cares, but that article was wrong in stating that there's only two parties in quebec, 5 deputies are from the ADQ, the third party. And this is an election from inside the party to elect their leader for the upcoming provincial election, not the provincial election itself.

Rude Turnip		2005-11-11 01:31:25 PM

MrBurns: Being English and living in Quebec, I don't care about the coke or that he's gay. A separatist however...

Apparently, PEI and the other islands would be interested in becoming part of the US if they were to be separated from the rest of Canada. 51st state indeed ;-)

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:31:58 PM

Who exactly is the leader of your country? oh thats right i could care less. When you guys have a population bigger then California come talk to me.

I will, as soon as you learn the difference between "than" and "then". And that's coming from a French Canadian.
Still, you're the worst troll I've ever seen.

rhiannon		2005-11-11 01:33:34 PM

psycho666: What bothered me is that he wouldn't go any further into detail about how he would handle one of his Ministers using coke.
As well, he said he would never drop the separatist issue, even if the electorate wanted to do so. He said "you can't kill an idea", or something to that effect.

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:33:39 PM

Apparently, PEI and the other islands would be interested in becoming part of the US if they were to be separated from the rest of Canada. 51st state indeed ;-)

Great thing. I hope they take Newfoundland too. Would make a nice redneck state up north :)

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:35:36 PM

rhiannon: ok right, in any case the party has no reason to exist anymore as it is.

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:35:36 PM

Last time. If this don't work, I farking give up.

Farkin A		2005-11-11 01:35:43 PM

Oh my french and canadian together, thats like making a drink out of shiat and piss.

Walljasper		2005-11-11 01:36:04 PM

Alex Chilton: still awaiting your own enlightening comments...put down your bong for a while and educate us.

psycho666		2005-11-11 01:36:42 PM

CraicBaby, all your html skills belong to us.

rhiannon		2005-11-11 01:36:55 PM

I agree psycho666

rhaaa_lovely		2005-11-11 01:37:54 PM

CraicBaby:

We are not separatist because we hate Canada/USA/etc...

The clash between french and english is not as "vocal" as it was 30 years ago, mainly because the French speaking population kiked the Church out and started to reclaim their position in the economy.

We are separatist because we are not Canadian, of a different culture and believe we need to govern ourselves in regards of our culture. In a world where international agreements have more impacts on local politics than ever, we feel the need to speak our own voice and sign and negociate such agreements ourselves. Many times our opinion on what should be protected or not in an agreement was far different from the rest of Canada, english Canada, and you guys are the majority in the federation. It's sad to say, but Albertans doesn't give a fark if our, lets say, musical industry cannot survive under NAFTA regulations denying our right to subsidise such industry. And frankly, we also do not care if Albertans wants to drive behemoth suvs to get milk at the covenience store...

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:39:35 PM

Farkin A: Oh my french and canadian together, thats like making a drink out of shiat and piss.

Dude, just get the fark out, okay? We get it. You're a farking tard. No one thinks you're funny, so just get the fark out.

losartin		2005-11-11 01:39:56 PM

As BiLL Cosby was once told "cocain is cool it amplifie's your personality" to which he replied "Yeah what if your last name is BUSH"....or something similar.

Euler007		2005-11-11 01:40:19 PM

rhiannon

Of course he can't drop the separatist issue, you can't be in the PQ if you're against independence. That's a shame really, Lucien Bouchard was doing a good job of running the province but it's all the god damn nutcases inside that party that ruin it. So you wind up between voting between the guys that suck at running the province and the guys that want to split with canada. I usually vote for the third party.

/non-separatist french canadian
//yes I get into fights alot
///that includes fark.com

Uncoolest		2005-11-11 01:41:20 PM

psycho666

Great thing. I hope they take Newfoundland too. Would make a nice redneck state up north :)

May I offer you a nice glass of STFU, or are you an alter for Farkin A?

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:41:57 PM

rhaaa_lovely: We are separatist because we are not Canadian, of a different culture and believe we need to govern ourselves in regards of our culture.

What about the First Nations people? Or the immgrants from other countries who come to live in Canada? They have distinct cultures too. Shouldn't they be able to govern themselves in regards to their cultures as well?

rhaaa_lovely		2005-11-11 01:43:38 PM

SPONSOR ME:

Ah oui, c'etait du francais? Desole, je n'avais pas compris ton baragouin.

\\petit ignare
\\\fini ton secondaire au lieu de perdre ton temps sur fark, ca ferait peut-etre du bien a ton orthographe
\\\\que vois-je, aucuns accents mais aucune faute? je dois avoir un probleme...

brichter		2005-11-11 01:44:34 PM

Farkin A
who makes a better leader? the guy who has a squeaky clean record, goes to church, never drank, smoked ,snorted anything but espouses bad public policy or a guy (or woman) who has made human mistakes like any of us are capable of but espouses good public policy?
a person's character may have strengths and weaknesses that lend to their being an effective politician but their past life should be a distant distant second to their policy ideas.
character traits/experience might be a better guide to use when choosing a roommate.

veedeevadeevoodee		2005-11-11 01:47:12 PM

sal-paradise		2005-11-11 01:47:59 PM

Farkin A

Do you realize how you look to everyone else? If you were in public, you'd be looking around red faced, wondering why everyone is staring at you like you just shiat yourself.

Stop, get a handle on your neurosis, then come back to the table.

Farkin A		2005-11-11 01:48:25 PM

How do you always know that their past life is always past them? Are you saying you favor a politician who does coke in office?

Sausage		2005-11-11 01:49:51 PM

CraicBaby

...and she told me she's a Separatist, too. It really surprised me because she'd never said anything about it before or said anything bad about Anglos, and she just doesn't seem the type. It makes me wonder if people really believe in the Separatist movement, or if they just say they're Separatists because they think, as a Quebecois person, they're obligated to?

The vast majority of seperatists do not hate anglos. In fact, you might be surprised to hear that there are quite a few anglo separatists in Quebec. I'm one of them, and quite a few of my friends are. Most of us don't advertise this fact due to the fact that the anglo community tends to react as though we are some kind of traitor. Furthermore, there is strong support for seperation in many of the ethnic communities of immigrants here in Quebec. Seperatists just feel that we would be happier if we had complete control of our destiny. We're not interested in causing harm to anyone.

rhaaa_lovely		2005-11-11 01:51:02 PM

I agree for the first nations. It's not popular among Quebecois and other Canadians, but I think Crees, Mohawks and Wendats are more than entitled to have their own states (be it provinces in Canada or anything else)

If Saskatchewan wants to promote its Ukrainian heritage I have nothing against it.

If BC wants to declare madarin as its official langage I have nothing against it either.

Is there any other political state from another culture than anglo-saxon in Canada (besides natives)? Don't think so.

We already have a state and a legislative body, we want our voice as a country.

Farkin A		2005-11-11 01:52:03 PM

well i wouldnt go that far but i am bored at work and it is quite amusing to see how pissy some people can get when you say anything bad about canada. yet in that same regard america bashing is the norm. ill fall back in line and praise the wonderful canada.

qcdude		2005-11-11 01:52:17 PM

CraicBaby: What about the First Nations people? Or the immgrants from other countries who come to live in Canada? They have distinct cultures too. Shouldn't they be able to govern themselves in regards to their cultures as well?

We are 7 million people who lived in a well defined territory. We are part of canada because of random historical events. QC is a separate nation. Look at any polls, QC and ROC is NEVER the same on any subject.

dittybopper		2005-11-11 01:52:34 PM

oldfarthenry
Most blue states disagree

They lost, Ernesto.

Seriously, it used to be the World respected Canada. Now they just ignore it.

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:53:27 PM

Farkin A: Are you saying you favor a politician who does coke in office?

Ask the 43% of Albertans who keep voting for Ralph Klein, even though he boozed it up in office, made a complete ass of himself by yelling drunkenly at homeless people at a homeless shelter, later admitted he's an alcoholic, and probably still boozes it up in office.

CraicBaby		2005-11-11 01:54:41 PM

rhaaa_lovely: Is there any other political state from another culture than anglo-saxon in Canada (besides natives)? Don't think so.

What about Nunavut?

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