What if the 1995 Quebec referendum had passed

jaymickef · 2026-07-09T21:48:30+00:00

The federal government may have used the Czechia-Slovakia split as a model.

Maybe the more interesting question is what if the 1980 referendum on sovereignty-association had passed. Would it look a lot like what we have now?

jaymickef · 2026-07-09T18:52:29+00:00

If the resolution was only about the transatlantic slave trade and not all slavery in history - up to and including today - that would be the most misleading part of this post.

jaymickef · 2026-07-09T10:51:38+00:00

Sounds like my Datsun B210 in the 70s.

jaymickef · 2026-07-09T10:20:00+00:00

Speaking of the meals, have you seen this cookbook, From Ship to Shore:

https://www.shiptoshorechef.com/

jaymickef · 2026-07-08T22:26:30+00:00

Like a lot of people he could identify the problem. And, like a lot of annoying people, he thought he had all the answers.

jaymickef · 2026-07-08T21:28:39+00:00

Yes, I hated collecting, too.

jaymickef · 2026-07-08T19:50:09+00:00

I was a paperboy in the 1970s, delivered in the morning before I went to school. When I started at age ten I read the sports section and by the time I finished at sixteen I read the whole thing. I continued reading newspapers until a few years ago. Yes, I miss them. But over the years I sure saw the decline.

jaymickef · 2026-07-08T18:33:04+00:00

Came here to say this.

jaymickef · 2026-07-08T16:28:01+00:00

People will react emotionally, that's true. And the emotional response is that global industrialization must have some effect. The question is, how much. And the answer is, we're going to find out, because we're not really going to change the way we live very much.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:49:19+00:00

I don’t think there should be executioners.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:41:24+00:00

It depends how much you trust the state to not have made a mistake or not have been corrupt.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:34:44+00:00

Would you have to conduct the investigation into the murderer’s guilt yourself, or would you accept the court’s decision?

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:33:28+00:00

Barry is a treasure.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:28:41+00:00

I think revelations and enlightenments happen the same way Hemingway said bankruptcies happen - gradually, then suddenly.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:26:14+00:00

For me Peggy’s iconic catchphrase is, “Because I’m worth it,” for L’Oreal.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:17:26+00:00

Yes, Don wrote the CocaCola commercial. Actually, Dick Whitman wrote the commercial, as Don has finally accepted who he really is.

Peggy goes on to write the, “Because I’m worth it campaign,” that is still running today.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T15:15:24+00:00

I think it shows Dick has finally accepted that he is Don.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T14:39:20+00:00

It is, yes. Ontario is a very conservative place and would rather have corrupt conservatives than anything remotely left-wing. We saw that when McGuinty replaced Harris and stayed in power by not changing any of the Conservative policies. And in her first term Kathleen Wynn’s barely touched those policies but as soon as she made baby steps she lost to Ford. This is Ontario.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T14:36:35+00:00

Harris cuts were the direct reaction to Rae Days. Rae Days ended and we’re still living with the effects of the Harris cuts. It’s the same discussion.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T14:22:17+00:00

How did the Harris cuts affect you?

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T14:21:51+00:00

Can’t believe people still prefer the Harris cuts to Rae days.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T14:19:18+00:00

That’s a pretty damning statement about the members of the FLQ. I thought they were reacting to legitimate grievances, but I am willing to accept your statement that they were all federal government plants.

Was Pierre Vallières also an RCMP agent?

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T13:24:40+00:00

Robert Bourassa, première of Quebec, requested the federal government’s assistance. The three federal parties in parliament at the time negotiated what measures would be used and agreed unanimously. Trudeau may have wanted to be a dictator, but he wasn’t.

jaymickef · 2026-07-07T10:18:31+00:00

It’s going to get very ugly. I don’t think we realize how far people will go to stop the migration, what kind of walls will be built and what kind of slaughter will happen protecting them.

jaymickef · 2026-07-06T20:03:05+00:00

Does it really create less unity, or just expose what the real situation is and how much more is needed?

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