Today I have at the top of the page a situation that has been going on for quite sometime now.  It has to do with your job — one you may have worked at for over 40 years — and those seemingly innocuous payments you made every paycheque to employment insurance. 

$10.00 here — $13.00 there week in and week out.

Over a period of 40 years that tiny sum becomes real money if you add it up and tack on the interest.  Had you invested that same amount into a blue chip fund of some kind you would be a wealthy man today but you weren’t permitted to do that were you?  Instead, the “nanny state” knew better, took it from you under false pretences and then gave it all away to those desperately in need. 

Quebec comes to mind.

“So” and as it turns out…while you sit there on your couch wondering where you are going to find a place to look after your kids ONE PROVINCE has the situation solved.  They give their citizens $7.00 everyday for every child, financed by the rest of this country.  And why are they able to do that you may wonder?

It’s called “togetherness”…pay us or we leave.

For the past 40 years Quebec has ruled this country.  We can discount “wannabees” like Joe Clark and John Turner.  They didn’t come from Quebec and they didn’t last a heartbeat. 

The only one that has is Stephen Harper.

Everyone else who matters (and has mattered) comes from Quebec and that’s pretty sad.  This country is far more than one province and “Yes”…I’m upset as the press panders to Quebec interests followed rapidly by Canadian politicians who would give away their country to a province of blackmailers in order ”to keep it together”.

“Well, screw that!”

Several years ago now a Quebec Finance Minister (who later became Prime Minister) had a great idea.  Actually, I doubt that this situation was his brainwave.  He isn’t smart enough to come up with it.  What happened was that Canada was into a deficit situation and everyone was screaming “Mulroney did that”. 

That isn’t true.

What happened was that “His Highness” gained control of power over Canada and drove us over 400 billion dollars into debt.  He was “Bob Rae”, the blue print.  Up until that time Canada was operating in the black.  When he left we were deeply in debt.

And then came along a time when the world went crazy…interest rates went double digit and farmers in my area were selling million dollar farms for less than a 100 thousand dollars just so they could bail out. 

And then “God” saved us all.

How did ”the juggernaut” do that you may wonder?

Well “first”…he came from Quebec and then he did it by taking all those tiny donations Canadian workers across the country were involuntarily contributing to a “job insurance fund” (the money as I understand things was supposed to have been set aside) and he porked it into general revenues.  Then he balanced the budget using that 50 billion dollars or so he “found” – altered a few other “tax things” —  and “voila” – ended up with a huge fiscal bonanza which he and his “Quebec friends” immediately sent off to a province who whines to buy votes.

Truth — there is only one province in this country that matters for politicians we elect today and that is Quebec because we love them so much we don’t want them to leave under any circumstances.

Wrong!

My view is that Canada is one country not ruled by any province — we work together.

To that end I’m calling for a national referendum in this parliament about to meet – “Should we keep Quebec at any cost or should we fire them?”

And I want my money back — all 54 billion dollars of it — with interest. 

My view — I didn’t put this money out to buy Quebec.  I put it out to insure that if I lost my job I would have something to fall back on.   While I don’t need it (I’m retired) there are many that do and that’s what the idea was all about at one time.

Now more than ever.  

Final Thought:  Quebec has an election going on right now and the ADQ (which is Canada’s friend — the only one) is being battered by the Liberals and the PQ.   They don’t get the press and they are fighting a losing battle.  I would dearly  love to see Charest (Joe Clark II) retired.  And I would also love to see a party in power in the province that could pull an Obama and change everything. 

It’s long overdue.

But it won’t happen unless Canadians get on the ADQ side and let their feelings be known.

I do not blame Quebec voters for this problem.  I blame their politicians and the lies.

Popularity: 13% [?]