Une semaine après les élections législatives fédérales canadiennes, on peut dire qu'il y a eu un changement palpable depuis 2004. Le Canada n'est plus gouverné par une formation minoritaire mais par un Parti Conservateur (PCC) et un Premier-ministre Stephne Harper sortant, avec 53,89% (166 sièges).Les Canadiens ont donné raison à l'appel du PCC de donner uue majorité au gouvernement.
On a cependant des craintes quand on voit qu'un député conservateur saskois veut remettre en cause l'avortement...
Le grand perdant est certainement le Parti Libéral (PLC). En effet le PLC passe de plus de 30% à 11%. Quelle en est la raison principale?
Le renversement pour une fois est à l'est! En effet les provinces de tradition européenne, Ontario et Québec,notamment n'ont pas donné à nouveau la confiance au PLC et au candidat Michael Ignatieff.
Le deuxième renversement est l'irrésistible montée du Nouveau Parti Démocratique (NPD) et de Jack Layton. Le NPD a réalisé son meilleur score depuis sa création ,en 1961, 33,4% et 103 sièges. Le NPD devient le parti de l'opposition officielle.
Jack Layton a surclassé les partis habituellement implantés en Ontario, dans le Grand Nord, dans les campagnes progressistes (Acadie) et surtout au Québec. Au Québec, le NPD est passé de 1 à 60 sièges!
La raison du succès? Un discours clairement de gauche: sécurité sociale universelle et gratuite, salaire minimum,...Est-ce que le PLC vit ses dernières heures comme parti d'alternance, comme en son temps, le Parti Whig britannique ou le Parti Radical français? En tout cas le clivage gauche-droite a été installé dans cette élection. De plus, Jack Laytona un discours intermédiaire vis-à-vis des Québécois, avec le fédéralisme asymétrique, car cela veut dire à terme l'autonomie du Québéc.
Le débat francophone de Radio-Canada a d'ailleurs eu plus d'influence cette année que le débat anglophone et Jack Layton y a particulièrement brillé. Parlons justement du Québec et du parti qui était majoritaire auprès de la nation québécoise: le Bloc Québécois. Gilles Duceppe a perdu les 17% fédéraux qui représentaient près de 72% nationaux!Pourquoi? En raison du sur place de Gilles Duceppe. Le meneur du Bloc n'a rien fait de sa majorité québécoise de 20 ans, certes il a défendu fièrement le Québec (subsides fédéraux dûs au Québéc,...) mais les Québécois attendaient désormais que le Bloc aille au gouvernement avec le NPD, quitte à faire avancer le référendum au fédéral. Le Bloc a fait l'erreur de ne pas se présenter au fédéral, au moins dans les autres provinces qui regroupent avec le Québec 75% de Canadiens français:l'Ontario et le Nouveau-Brunswick. Cela aurait etoffé et élargi son électorat.
Est-ce que le NPD saura par le futur reconnâître la primauté québécoise en matière de langue comme constitutionnelle, reconnaître une autonomie fiscale, accepter l'adoption d'une constitution québécoise et faire des droits des francophones autres que Québécois, des droits à la québécoise? C'est le minimum pour un vrai "fédéralisme asymétrique".
De leur côté le Bloc a intérêt à discuter avec le NPD. Cela demande du doigté, ne pas apparâître comme les francophones excluants et anglophobes "de service" prêts à couper les ponts avec le Canada mais comme des souverainistes du juste milieu, ce qu'ils sont, acceptant les étapes: autonomie puis la souveraineté modérée: monnaie en commun avec le Canada, l'armée en commeun, la coopération économique, la sécurité sociale universelle et gratuite à l'échelle continentale (Québec+Canada)
Cela passe aussi par des accords privilégiés avec l'Union Européenne et l'UNASUR-MERCOSUR. Avec pour objectif de se libérer des 80% de relations économiques avec les Etats-Unis pour passer à 40% Etats-Unis, 30%UE, 30% Amérique latine.
A terme un Parlement confédéral , comme ce qui existe pour le Parlement européen sera élu par les Québécois et les Canadiens, il se situera probablement en Acadie,au Nouveau-Brunswick (à Moncton ou à Memramcook).
Le plus important pour le Québec reste l'élection de Pauline Marois comme Première ministre du Québec à l'Assemblée Nationale en 2013 pour balayer Jean Charest, remettre le social au coeur du Québec et préparer la souveraineté pour 2020.
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lundi, mai 09, 2011
samedi, avril 23, 2011
Comparison of the two election platforms of Bloc Quebecois and the NDP
The program or platform, of the Bloc Québécois is more detailed (150 pages) than the New Democratic Party which made 30. These are two complementary views: the precision of a row and will mark the key points.
On social and economic issues, we are dealing with similar programs.
The Bloc Québécois proposes including social and economic
-Reform employment insurance (UI) so it benefits more people
-Help seniors live at home by a parent or caregiver
-Raise domainspensions
-Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement
-Provide a public program of social and affordable housing with the precision of public management
-Support through federal research and development in sustainable domains, and high quality production
-Lowering the federal intervention to 300 million dollars leve when there is a foreign company buying a Canadian company, with a guarantee of jobs, wages and pensions
The same thing with the New Democratic Party, except that it does not specify whether housing should be managed by the public and the federal intervention for a purchase abroad is lower at 100 million dollars level. The NDP also states that communities should be public hearings with foreign firms purchasing, a sign of democratic transparency, to ensure proper social treatment of employees and retirees of the company.
The Bloc Québécois is more accurate on two strategic points of the Quebec economy: aerospace, to promote Ontario as much as the automobile and the arsenals of Davie shipyards to revive, and the need for renovation of ports. Finally the Bloc insists on the need for a true partnership with the European Union.
The NDP says that the tax on SMEs should be lowered from 11% to 9%, increased development in Northern Ontario (FedNor with the agency) and premium cuts for creating nearly 200,000 jobs.
Overall, NDP wants to re-instaurate the federal minimum income,suppressed in 1996 by the Liberal Party.
The Bloc Québécois is more precise on the regional development including forest production areas which have to be supported, after the current crisis lasts Since 2005 and help the favoring of economic diversification. As well as transportation, a lengthy development work is done on the development of local airports (helping), the high-speed Montreal-Quebec City-Windsor. A strong point is approached Canadian Post, Canada Post, which noted the decline in service and closure of branches in rural areas. It is requested that we return to a higher location, as in 1994 and an outright rejection of privatisation.
The family aspect and health are more developed in the platform of the New Democratic Party: Plan in consultation with provincial child care and early education, federal transfers to provinces to reduce university costs. We would have liked the timing of the move towards free higher education.
Control of bank charges on credit cards, the combination of child benefit and child care, the combined parental assurance-emploi/congé, reducing the cost of medicines in consultation with the provinces, the Federal support for training of doctors and nurses, in ordet to help the provincial programs for education on healthy eating.
For the ecological level, the NDP wants to make Canada an example in reducing greenhouse gases and move towards a market quota of continental gas emissions (Canada / USA), transportation fund by an extra cent on essence, public funds for research while the Bloc insists on aid for ecological housing , hybrid cars or electric ones and of course research and development.
The Bloc Québécois believes that Quebec's economy is unique and has interests opposed to those in Canada. With the West, yes, but not with the Acadia and Ontario. It is noted that the NDP includes part of the Quebec model response and family coverage. These are two socialist parties.
The Bloc Québécois much emphasis on cultural competence to give Quebec, along the reminder on Quebec sovereignty, the need to promote the Québec films , to ask what each position of the federal public service is a bilingual person whose judges and Bill 101 (Charter of the French Language) is the only linguistic reference in Quebec for the life and work, without the Court of Canada has to intervene.
As the NDP, the Bloc Québécois is asking that the CBC &and Radio Canada have more representatives of French-Canadian.
The NDP wants one can choose his language so if a family decides to keep the French in education is a fimperative ederal law i to be respected, if necessary revise the law on official languages for minorities, that means mostly francophone minorities and a true representation and understanding of French at the Supreme Court. The Bloc Québécois more precises its language program and this is more protective for the Quebec nation.
It should be noted that two lines are devoted by the Bloc Québécois and the national and inguistic questions regarding the French Canadian and Acadian(regular federal funding agencies). The Bloc Québécois talks very few about a federal perspective, which is normal, with its name.
The linguistic identity and federal recognition of the Charter of the French Language of Quebec as a constitutional charter exclusively for Quebec is necessary pending the Québec Constitution.
Request to reconsider the laws of Manitoba, ... which have abolished bilingual education compulsory for all.
Recognise the Acadian nation as well as the Quebec nation with its own law 101 (thus creating the 11th province of Acadia, in northern New Brunswick.
I would add the creation of a linguistic community and institutional confederation of French Canadians, like what exists in Belgium, which would put all the French Canadians under the protection of the Quebec Charter of the French language
On social and economic issues, we are dealing with similar programs.
The Bloc Québécois proposes including social and economic
-Reform employment insurance (UI) so it benefits more people
-Help seniors live at home by a parent or caregiver
-Raise domainspensions
-Increase the Guaranteed Income Supplement
-Provide a public program of social and affordable housing with the precision of public management
-Support through federal research and development in sustainable domains, and high quality production
-Lowering the federal intervention to 300 million dollars leve when there is a foreign company buying a Canadian company, with a guarantee of jobs, wages and pensions
The same thing with the New Democratic Party, except that it does not specify whether housing should be managed by the public and the federal intervention for a purchase abroad is lower at 100 million dollars level. The NDP also states that communities should be public hearings with foreign firms purchasing, a sign of democratic transparency, to ensure proper social treatment of employees and retirees of the company.
The Bloc Québécois is more accurate on two strategic points of the Quebec economy: aerospace, to promote Ontario as much as the automobile and the arsenals of Davie shipyards to revive, and the need for renovation of ports. Finally the Bloc insists on the need for a true partnership with the European Union.
The NDP says that the tax on SMEs should be lowered from 11% to 9%, increased development in Northern Ontario (FedNor with the agency) and premium cuts for creating nearly 200,000 jobs.
Overall, NDP wants to re-instaurate the federal minimum income,suppressed in 1996 by the Liberal Party.
The Bloc Québécois is more precise on the regional development including forest production areas which have to be supported, after the current crisis lasts Since 2005 and help the favoring of economic diversification. As well as transportation, a lengthy development work is done on the development of local airports (helping), the high-speed Montreal-Quebec City-Windsor. A strong point is approached Canadian Post, Canada Post, which noted the decline in service and closure of branches in rural areas. It is requested that we return to a higher location, as in 1994 and an outright rejection of privatisation.
The family aspect and health are more developed in the platform of the New Democratic Party: Plan in consultation with provincial child care and early education, federal transfers to provinces to reduce university costs. We would have liked the timing of the move towards free higher education.
Control of bank charges on credit cards, the combination of child benefit and child care, the combined parental assurance-emploi/congé, reducing the cost of medicines in consultation with the provinces, the Federal support for training of doctors and nurses, in ordet to help the provincial programs for education on healthy eating.
For the ecological level, the NDP wants to make Canada an example in reducing greenhouse gases and move towards a market quota of continental gas emissions (Canada / USA), transportation fund by an extra cent on essence, public funds for research while the Bloc insists on aid for ecological housing , hybrid cars or electric ones and of course research and development.
The Bloc Québécois believes that Quebec's economy is unique and has interests opposed to those in Canada. With the West, yes, but not with the Acadia and Ontario. It is noted that the NDP includes part of the Quebec model response and family coverage. These are two socialist parties.
The Bloc Québécois much emphasis on cultural competence to give Quebec, along the reminder on Quebec sovereignty, the need to promote the Québec films , to ask what each position of the federal public service is a bilingual person whose judges and Bill 101 (Charter of the French Language) is the only linguistic reference in Quebec for the life and work, without the Court of Canada has to intervene.
As the NDP, the Bloc Québécois is asking that the CBC &and Radio Canada have more representatives of French-Canadian.
The NDP wants one can choose his language so if a family decides to keep the French in education is a fimperative ederal law i to be respected, if necessary revise the law on official languages for minorities, that means mostly francophone minorities and a true representation and understanding of French at the Supreme Court. The Bloc Québécois more precises its language program and this is more protective for the Quebec nation.
It should be noted that two lines are devoted by the Bloc Québécois and the national and inguistic questions regarding the French Canadian and Acadian(regular federal funding agencies). The Bloc Québécois talks very few about a federal perspective, which is normal, with its name.
The linguistic identity and federal recognition of the Charter of the French Language of Quebec as a constitutional charter exclusively for Quebec is necessary pending the Québec Constitution.
Request to reconsider the laws of Manitoba, ... which have abolished bilingual education compulsory for all.
Recognise the Acadian nation as well as the Quebec nation with its own law 101 (thus creating the 11th province of Acadia, in northern New Brunswick.
I would add the creation of a linguistic community and institutional confederation of French Canadians, like what exists in Belgium, which would put all the French Canadians under the protection of the Quebec Charter of the French language
mardi, avril 19, 2011
Federal elections in Canada: for finding at last a common vibration between the two brotherly countries, Québec and Canada
On May 2nd, following the dissolution of the Canadian House of Commons, Canadian citizens will be asked to renew the major part of the federal parliament. Four main competitors are in contention: Stephen Harper, current Prime Minister from the right side(Conservative), Michael Ignatieff center right (Liberal), Jack Layton as socialist from the New Democratic Party and Gilles Duceppe on the left side and in faour of sovereignty (Bloc Québécois).
We note by the way that none of the four major parties has a woman as leader of a list.
This article is also an open letter to Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, representatives of both my favourites parties , if I had to vote in Canada.
Indeed these two parties are on the left side in order to propose a set of North American for progress and openness. However there is considerable disagreement, the famous Federalist prism opposite to that of the sovereign. Indeed, only the Bloc Quebecois, the federal representative of the Parti Quebecois, wants an independent Quebec.
Quebecers and other francophones more experienced since the XVIII°th century domination, often expressed by force: the Great Acadian Upheaval is actually a deportation of the Acadians from Acadia produced by outside British authorities, the repression of the rebellion of the Patriotes of Quebec led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, the summary execution of Louis Riel in 1885 because he wanted to defend the francophones, the ban on bilingual education in Manitoba in 1890; Besides the renunciation of federal power to deal promises to Quebecers: the Charlottetown Agreement in 1871 did not follow a autonomous Quebec as expected or the Meech Lake Meeting in 1990, has buried the will of Quebecers not to give 'carte blanche' to the Canadian constitution.
The language issue is an essential foundation of the will of Quebec independence, land in an English speaking ocean.
I turn first to Mr. Gilles Duceppe.
Mr. Duceppe, you will proudly represent many Quebeckers to pursue their own path toward sovereignty. However, you can not adopt an attitude that sometimes recalls the attitude of Flemish parties against parties in Wallonia and Brussels. An attitude characterised by a certain exclusion. When you say you're not Canadian, that Canada is not your country. It's not quite true. Canada was born during the New France's period, the nations of Canada (Quebeckers, Acadians, Aboriginals, Britons) has had a common history since the mid- XVIII°th century, a often painful and humiliating history for the French Canadians and the indigenous but still even a common history. Sometimes, we have the impression that you put all the English speakers in the same bag. This can hurt the brothers talking in good faith and who believe in progress and self-determination of peoples.
During your speech at the XVIth Congress of the Parti Quebecois, you attacked unfairly Jack Layton and the NDP. Jack Layton has shown respect for the Quebec nation by insisting on the right of Quebecers to self-determination and denouncing the strong ambiguity of the scandalous Dion referendum law . Jack Layton is like you a socialist, an advocate of progress and workers. It's really going against your socialist camp. For the Bloc Québécois and the mother party the Parti Quebecois are indeed socialist parties. I also hope, as such, the Parti Quebecois will soon enter in the Socialist International. The brother party, the NDP is already inside the Socialist Internationale. I am surprised that the Bloc Québécois does not block Francophone provinces in trying to enforce the rights of French Canadians, a multifaceted nation has the right both in Quebec and "British" Canada to exist and enjoy its rights. I hope that for the next federal elections, there will be candidates in the two other provinces with the highest number of French Canadians: Ontario and New Brunswick.
The purpose of sovereignty is also proposing Quebec citizenship to francophones who want even "above ground", however much we would not consider that Canada does not belong equally to French Canadians.
I hope with all my heart a victory next Pauline Marois in the National Assembly and a realisation of the sovereignty of the Quebec nation.
Then I go to Mr. Layton said John Gilbert "Jack" Layton
You are the representative of a party that truly defends human dignity, the right of workers and shows you a true intercultural awareness, far beyond the simple cliché of "communities", you have within you the universal.
I know it is not easy to think otherwise than in the Quebec province of Canada, especially since I know it's not easy to convince your colleagues who speak English or Canadian citizens on why the need of Quebecers for sovereignty . Don't worry, this can not be a goodbye or a farewell full of sadness, when you look at the links between French Canadians and British Canadians. Sovereignty is necessarily an e sovereignty-association, resulting from the brilliant idea of Rene Levesque, who lived in Acadia, who is not afraid of English speaking people. Her Bill 101 has never squizzed the rights of English-speaking Quebecers. Sovereignty-association will be like the brother who takes another room not far from the sister to have his secret garden.
Many things will remain in common: economic cooperation, currency and military cooperation. I'm even sure that Quebec will help the rest of Canada to reach a social State, the "real welfare State." This will be the equivalent of the European Union in Canada, a Canadian Confederation which will include Canada (probably a republic) and Quebec, working with both the NAFTA and with the European Union.
Obviously this preparation for sovereignty will not be a snap shot of the finger, but tis will be prepared and coordinated. The first step is probably true autonomy with recognition of Quebec's exclusive jurisdiction of Québec regarding language issues.
Canada and Quebec are indeed two brotherly countries (such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
I sincerely hope that you'll be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
We note by the way that none of the four major parties has a woman as leader of a list.
This article is also an open letter to Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe, representatives of both my favourites parties , if I had to vote in Canada.
Indeed these two parties are on the left side in order to propose a set of North American for progress and openness. However there is considerable disagreement, the famous Federalist prism opposite to that of the sovereign. Indeed, only the Bloc Quebecois, the federal representative of the Parti Quebecois, wants an independent Quebec.
Quebecers and other francophones more experienced since the XVIII°th century domination, often expressed by force: the Great Acadian Upheaval is actually a deportation of the Acadians from Acadia produced by outside British authorities, the repression of the rebellion of the Patriotes of Quebec led by Louis-Joseph Papineau in 1837, the summary execution of Louis Riel in 1885 because he wanted to defend the francophones, the ban on bilingual education in Manitoba in 1890; Besides the renunciation of federal power to deal promises to Quebecers: the Charlottetown Agreement in 1871 did not follow a autonomous Quebec as expected or the Meech Lake Meeting in 1990, has buried the will of Quebecers not to give 'carte blanche' to the Canadian constitution.
The language issue is an essential foundation of the will of Quebec independence, land in an English speaking ocean.
I turn first to Mr. Gilles Duceppe.
Mr. Duceppe, you will proudly represent many Quebeckers to pursue their own path toward sovereignty. However, you can not adopt an attitude that sometimes recalls the attitude of Flemish parties against parties in Wallonia and Brussels. An attitude characterised by a certain exclusion. When you say you're not Canadian, that Canada is not your country. It's not quite true. Canada was born during the New France's period, the nations of Canada (Quebeckers, Acadians, Aboriginals, Britons) has had a common history since the mid- XVIII°th century, a often painful and humiliating history for the French Canadians and the indigenous but still even a common history. Sometimes, we have the impression that you put all the English speakers in the same bag. This can hurt the brothers talking in good faith and who believe in progress and self-determination of peoples.
During your speech at the XVIth Congress of the Parti Quebecois, you attacked unfairly Jack Layton and the NDP. Jack Layton has shown respect for the Quebec nation by insisting on the right of Quebecers to self-determination and denouncing the strong ambiguity of the scandalous Dion referendum law . Jack Layton is like you a socialist, an advocate of progress and workers. It's really going against your socialist camp. For the Bloc Québécois and the mother party the Parti Quebecois are indeed socialist parties. I also hope, as such, the Parti Quebecois will soon enter in the Socialist International. The brother party, the NDP is already inside the Socialist Internationale. I am surprised that the Bloc Québécois does not block Francophone provinces in trying to enforce the rights of French Canadians, a multifaceted nation has the right both in Quebec and "British" Canada to exist and enjoy its rights. I hope that for the next federal elections, there will be candidates in the two other provinces with the highest number of French Canadians: Ontario and New Brunswick.
The purpose of sovereignty is also proposing Quebec citizenship to francophones who want even "above ground", however much we would not consider that Canada does not belong equally to French Canadians.
I hope with all my heart a victory next Pauline Marois in the National Assembly and a realisation of the sovereignty of the Quebec nation.
Then I go to Mr. Layton said John Gilbert "Jack" Layton
You are the representative of a party that truly defends human dignity, the right of workers and shows you a true intercultural awareness, far beyond the simple cliché of "communities", you have within you the universal.
I know it is not easy to think otherwise than in the Quebec province of Canada, especially since I know it's not easy to convince your colleagues who speak English or Canadian citizens on why the need of Quebecers for sovereignty . Don't worry, this can not be a goodbye or a farewell full of sadness, when you look at the links between French Canadians and British Canadians. Sovereignty is necessarily an e sovereignty-association, resulting from the brilliant idea of Rene Levesque, who lived in Acadia, who is not afraid of English speaking people. Her Bill 101 has never squizzed the rights of English-speaking Quebecers. Sovereignty-association will be like the brother who takes another room not far from the sister to have his secret garden.
Many things will remain in common: economic cooperation, currency and military cooperation. I'm even sure that Quebec will help the rest of Canada to reach a social State, the "real welfare State." This will be the equivalent of the European Union in Canada, a Canadian Confederation which will include Canada (probably a republic) and Quebec, working with both the NAFTA and with the European Union.
Obviously this preparation for sovereignty will not be a snap shot of the finger, but tis will be prepared and coordinated. The first step is probably true autonomy with recognition of Quebec's exclusive jurisdiction of Québec regarding language issues.
Canada and Quebec are indeed two brotherly countries (such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia).
I sincerely hope that you'll be the next Prime Minister of Canada.
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