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November 30th, 2005 at 10:23 am
I don’t know if you caught The Daily Show last night, but Samantha Bee
(the resident Canadian on TDS) did a report on this. Jon kept asking her
to “explain back a little further…for example, where is Canada?”
Then, after a brief overview of the Canadian Parliament, Jon said “Sam…”
there was a pause…
Finally, Samantha got an exasperated look and said “eh.”
Jon said “and the other thing…”
(pause, exasperated look) “Aboot.”
I love TDS.
WF
December 1st, 2005 at 5:22 pm
Lynne, I wanted to come over to your own blog to gush a bit more about how happy I am to see you join BOP, and since I’m Canadian, this seemed to be as good a thread as any.
I’ve been the only active female voice on BOP for quite a while now, and my blogging is sporadic because of ongoing health issues. (Nothing dramatic! But one of the manifestations is fairly regular bouts of insomnia, which preclude the lucidity I try to bring to writing.) The BOP Boys are a pleasure to write with and spectularly supportive as colleagues, but it will still nice to get a bit more estrogen in the room.
As for the topic of your actualy post, it has been amusing to read about “The Canadian Government’s Collapse!!!” in American blogs and media–when, as you note, a non-confidence vote is a standard part of the rigamarole of parliamentary procedures.
My mom’s family is also originally Quebecois, although the French blood is highly diluted by my generation and I had to go to school to learn French (a great pity, I wish I had grown up bilingual). I don’t have a visceral attachment to Quebec separatist issues or Quebeois identity.
The very Cole’s notes version on Quebec separatism is that while Canada is certainly quite good to Quebec *today,* the historic oppression of French Canadians was pretty awful. Just as Republicans play up racist sentiment in the south for political gain, Quebec separatists exploit the lingering memories of historic oppression to drive their own political agenda. At an institutional level, separatists seize on separation as a pretext for gaining power…not because of any innate good in separation.
Separatism seems to be a generational issue, and the hardcore separatists are aging out. They also have an increasingly difficult task of selling separation to new Canadians, who didn’t immigrate in order to be Quebecois. If we can keep separatists in check ofr a few more years I think demographic change will largely solve the problem.
If you’re interested in the election and the politics of the great white north, I highly recommend Ian Welsh’s writings on BOP, and Kevin Brennan’s writings at Tilting at Windmills. They are my top two go-to guys for all things Canadian. (I live on this side of the line currently and work in American politics; I don’t know nearly enough about politics at home.)
I’m delighted to hear you love Canadians. I happen to love progressive women political bloggers! I look forward to having great fun with you at BOP.
December 2nd, 2005 at 9:42 pm
Hi Shaula, thanks for the warm welcome! I shall endeavor to be all things female or at least a reasonable facsimile.
I have quite a few friends I’m in daily (email) contact with who live in CA (Alberta, BC) and the political one, the one who actually pays attention a great deal, is worried that within a decade it will trend the other way - the youth attaching themselves to the separatist movement. I don’t recall his arguments but as usual they were compelling. It’ll be interesting, in the least, to see what happens…but I think they are going to do themselves a disservice to secede, if they ever pull it off.
Interesting perspective on Canada’s (Britain’s?) record of oppression, for some reason it sounds vaguely familiar but as usual, my non-U.S. North American history background is close to nil.