French-speakers, this controversy about the BQ leader asking for votes for people who "resemble you" is BS, right?
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
i think spending billions on a pipeline that both shouldn't and more importantly won't be built was cool as hell personally
― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 October 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
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i mean he could have been dog-whistling but linguistically it doesn't look that way to me
― sean gramophone, Friday, 4 October 2019 18:41 (four years ago) link
I have a hard time buying that they would be unaware of the current political climate in Quebec and what such words would represent and trigger in the public discourse.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Fuck the Bloc, but 'qui vous ressemble(nt)' is pretty banal commercial-speak in French and not necessarily a dog whistle. It can be used for inanimate objects as well as for people, e.g. 'un hôtel qui vous ressemble'.
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Yeah, this is just bad translation. There are many actual things on which the Bloc should be called out on instead of this.
― silverfish, Friday, 4 October 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-quebec-government-moves-to-ban-popular-bilingual-greeting-bonjourhi/
The CAQ's platform boils down to pnwning Montreal, it seems.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 October 2019 07:48 (four years ago) link
In other news, Andrew Scheer is a dual Canadian-American citizen. I kind of assume that to be secretly true for all Conservatives, though?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 October 2019 07:50 (four years ago) link
The bonjour-hi opposition is so infuriatingly dumb. Besides, I've already noticed it being used a lot less after the last resolution. And ime it's often replaced by "allô"...not exactly a resounding victory for the french language lmao
― rob, Saturday, 5 October 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
How about just 'lo' as in 'lo and behold!'?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 October 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
There's restricting free speech and then there's trying to stop people from saying "hi". This seems a bit like trolling tbh. Crazy that the PLQ seem to be more supportive of it than the PQ?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 October 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Is it that the PLQ has more to prove in terms of credibility on language issues?
― jmm, Saturday, 5 October 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
wow your guys' politics are unreal
― j., Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Can't tell whether that's a good or a bad thing at this point.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
*cue indignant but toothless response from RoC*
Nationalists: "Ah, more evidence that our values are incompatible. Sovereignty may be our only option."
Wash, rinse, repeat.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
Tbf, Blanchet made a point of his appreciation of Quebec's anglo minority. Interested to see his response to this.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 October 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
scheer calling out dual US citizens in 2005 is pretty funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20051208133657/http:/andrewscheermp.blogspot.com/
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Saturday, 5 October 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
Sund4r otm
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
"Andrew Scheer: secretly American" is a pretty good twist.
― jmm, Saturday, 5 October 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
― pomenitul, Saturday, October 5, 2019 3:48 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
they should change it to ‘bonjour, bitch’
― flopson, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Welcome to the QC, bitch
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Sounds pretty bad ass tbh.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
Fuck a Tory but I don't get the issue with Scheer's dual citizenship (aside from lols @ his 2005 comments)? Not only was a PM as recent as John Turner a dual citizen but there was not even such a thing as Canadian citizenship distinct from British subjecthood prior to 1947, acc. to this: https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/citizenship .
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 October 2019 19:52 (four years ago) link
Here's andrew coyne's case: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/elections/andrew-coyne-you-cant-be-leader-of-one-country-and-pledge-allegiance-to-another/ar-AAIiWet?ocid=st
but I agree with Sund4r
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
i think Michael Ignatieff lived in canada for like 5% of his adult life or something
― flopson, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:24 (four years ago) link
I don't think it's an issue in itself, it's just funny that he never mentioned it before now. (Apparently because nobody ever specifically thought to ask?)
“I was never asked about it from Canadians,” he told reporters in Bedford, N.S., on Thursday night. “I’ve actually been very honest about it.”
― jmm, Saturday, 5 October 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
As a good bud said ‘Can't believe we have a legitimate birther story.’
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 October 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
I don’t get why this dipshit didn’t renounce his US citizenship earlier. For all the grief they gave Ignatiff & Dion, you’d think he’d have the foresight to take care of that ahead of time. Also want to know if he voted for Trump.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 5 October 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Supposedly he has never voted as American. But, I dunno... maybe just nobody has asked him.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Sunday, 6 October 2019 00:46 (four years ago) link
The real american thing to do would be to not even vote.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 6 October 2019 03:07 (four years ago) link
Tuned into tonight's English debate. TS: Scheer's French vs Bernier's English?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
May OTM about Blanchet's climate equalization plan.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
this has been a difficult watch.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
Preferred the format of the French one.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:53 (four years ago) link
Nice, Bernier going in on Scheer for not being conservative enough.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
I was listening to Angel Haze's "Echelon (It's My Way)" on the way to work this morning--there's a lyric in there that pretty much anticipates the whole Trudeau scandal. You'll have to look it up yourself.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
I apparently hate myself enough to tune into the second French debate.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:51 (four years ago) link
i think it would be more enjoyable for me, as i speak no french whatsoever.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 October 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
no, i take it back. it will be annoying as fuck no matter what.
Have you considered leading the Conservative Party? xp
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
From what I gather, Bernier's solution to reconciliation with the First Nations is to privatize reserve land and build more pipelines.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 01:06 (four years ago) link
(Admittedly, I don't have a solution.)
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
I gave up. Comments on Radio-Canada's FB seem depressingly pro-Bloc.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
FB comments will always let you down. tho i am kinda surprised how much the Bloc seems to be eating into the libs right now.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 11 October 2019 02:26 (four years ago) link
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― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, October 11, 2019 12:57 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r)
lol
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
so it's basically a tie now for seat projections according to polls and if the bloc keeps making gains it might be enough to give the conservatives a win (albeit a minority government)
this is depressing
Poll Tracker updated with significant movement in the numbers as the Bloc's gains in Quebec rob the Liberals of their seat advantage over the Conservatives. Liberals, Conservatives now virtually tied in both seats and votes, minority odds now 3:1. #cdnpoli https://t.co/5I1Dt3n1qW pic.twitter.com/322EHSSzzg— Éric Grenier (@EricGrenierCBC) October 11, 2019
― silverfish, Friday, 11 October 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
Tory plurality could be OK, even good, if Grits were willing to form a coalition with the NDP. There seems to typically be resistance to that idea, though, even though it is 100% legitimate and democratic in a Westminster Parliamentary system.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 11 October 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
My riding used to be Gilles Duceppe's so it's fertile ground for a Bloc resurgence. Not voting Liberal is no longer a no-brainer, which is indeed depressing.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
wow grenier's exact seat projection right now is the no majority coalition for anyone apocalypse scenario
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 11 October 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
LIbs 139, Cons 136, Bloc 33, NDP 25, Greens 4, Bernier 1
― Jeff Bathos (symsymsym), Friday, 11 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link