Who Are The People Of Canada, Anyway? Reflections And Commen
Newsbot @ Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:51 am
Title: Who Are The People Of Canada, Anyway? Reflections And Commentaries, Chapter One
Written By: JaredMilne
Date: Friday, March 27 at 08:07
Chapter One:
In the first chapter, Citizen X talks about just why he's confused about Canada's future. He recounts hitchhiking to the Gaspé region in Quebec in his youth in the 1960s, and his fascination with la belle province. In thinking about what came afterwards, including the rise of the Parti Quebecois and the separatist movement, he wonders what happened to the visions he had in his youth.
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RickW @ Sun Mar 29, 2015 8:51 am
My Dad was an "anti-French" Torontonian, until he got posted to a radar base on the old Pinetree line that was supposed to warn us of an airborne invasion over the Arctic in the Cold War. At the end of his posting, his best friend (to this day) is French, and, as he noted (eventually), the average Frenchman puts his trousers on one leg at a time, just like everyone else.
Jabberwalker @ Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:12 am
RickW RickW:
My Dad was an "anti-French" Torontonian, until he got posted to a radar base on the old Pinetree line that was supposed to warn us of an airborne invasion over the Arctic in the Cold War. At the end of his posting, his best friend (to this day) is French, and, as he noted (eventually), the average Frenchman puts his trousers on one leg at a time, just like everyone else.
La Macaza?
I served with lots of Francophones and I'm, personally, glad that they are on our side.
Others of you might disagree but I was pretty impressed with them, on the whole.
RickW @ Sun Mar 29, 2015 4:05 pm
Ain't it "amazing" how some people can assume the role of the Devil - until one actually meets them?