{"id":1191,"date":"2006-11-26T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2006-11-26T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T22:04:00","slug":"loose-cannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Loose Cannon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Go to the one minute mark of this video of Lawrence Cannon on QP today<\/a> where Lawrence explains who the Quebecois <\/em>are:<\/p>\n

“Basically the Quebecois are the original Canadians who landed here 400 years ago in Quebec City and founded Quebec City.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Then, at the five minute mark:<\/p>\n

“If we go and speak to the person in the street who is in Shawville Quebec, and you ask him if he’s a Quebecois and a Canadian, he’ll say yes, I may be a Quebecois, but I’m also a Quebecker, I am a Canadian, and he knows formally where he’s come from and where a strong majority of Quebeckers have come from. They’ve immigrated from France.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So, at least in the eyes of Lawrence Cannon, the motion Harper has proposed is to recognize that the pur laine <\/em>form a nation within Canada. Ahh…ethnic nationalism…<\/p>\n

I’d also like to draw attention to Warren’s <\/a>petition and encourage everyone to sign<\/a>:<\/p>\n


\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> Andrew Coyne outlines some of the confusion about the wording <\/a>in the resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go to the one minute mark of this video of Lawrence Cannon on QP today where Lawrence explains who the Quebecois are: “Basically the Quebecois are the original Canadians who landed here 400 years ago in Quebec City and founded Quebec City.” Then, at the five minute mark: “If we go and speak to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}