MONTREAL - And the Oscar for Best overacting, exaggeration and deception in a supporting role goes to… Pierre Curzi, PQ MNA, former actor and now language pit-bull.

Monsieur Curzi this week compared Bill 115, the Charest government's slippery and mean language bill, to the War Measures Act.

Yep you heard right. Guess the 40th anniversary of the October Crisis left him feeling nostalgic.

His boss Madame Marois says the Liberals are abandoning the defence of French. "A sombre day for Quebec," she piped up.

Wrong Madame It was a sombre day for Quebec's English-speaking community.

We went to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Brent Tyler won. We all won.

But instead of embracing the decision as a fair and reasonable judgement, the Liberals did their best to make access to English schools more complicated, not less.

A couple of hundred more kids, if that many, in the English public school system will lead to the disappearance of French in North America?

What hyperbole. What dishonesty.

We need some oxygen for our schools just to survive, but there is no generosity to be found, because I often wonder if a viable English school system is something that is even wanted by many in this province.

I know one thing: francophone parents want more choice. But their leaders know best.

We went to the highest court in the land; we won; but we still lost.

Our community has learned French. We are now more bilingual than francophones. We send our kids to immersion. We get our hockey from RDS.

We are here largely because we want to be.

But to show a little generosity in helping our schools is out of the question.

Maybe one day the deep thinkers in Quebec City will realize we are not the enemy.


Remember the women, not the monster

I don't know about you, I found but what played out in the Belleville courtroom this week to be absolutely gut wrenching.

What an evil and sick man this colonel turned out to be.

One of Canada's top military men carrying out such acts of depravity.

Our attention and our horror were focused on this monster, but let us not forget there were heroes here.

The two young women who fought back with incredible courage.

While this beast fades into the darkness of history, Jessica Lloyd and Marie-France Comeau should always be remembered for the fullness of their lives, the people they were and they how enriched everyone around them.

That is definitely what we need to remember.