OPINION

Is the Parti Quebecois government’s goal to make Quebec the laughingstock of the civilized world?

If so, Pauline Marois and company are doing a pretty good job.

You have our Education Minister calling English a foreign language, so that, I gather, makes the folks in Quebec who speak English foreigners. Strangers in our own land.

The thing you have to remember about Marie Malavoy is that she doesn't have the best judgement.

She used to have a penchant for illegal voting. She wasn't a Canadian citizen yet she voted in a referendum as well as federal and provincial elections without having the right to do so.

Malavoy was born in Germany, immigrated to Canada and became a separatist of the first order.

And she is telling me that English in Quebec is a foreign language. Franchement.

 

More PQ backtracking from the gang that could not shoot straight

Now the Marois improv troop has done a daycare flip flop.

The family minister announced she would enforce Bill 101 for the youngest of the young.

That would have meant more inspectors, more bureaucracy, and more identity politics.

If the language zealots could get their way they would enforce their intolerance from birth to death.

Guess they are still smarting from Rene Levesque dying in an English hospital.

Wisely, the language minister found this trial balloon was made of lead.

Quebec is indeed the laughingstock, except if you happen to live here.

 

 

Marois’s pilgrimage to the colonizers

The Pequistes also got very excited this week after Marois’s pilgrimage to the French President.

Why do the separatists feel they need the blessing of the French?

How come one of the first things they do is to run to Elysee Palace to seek benediction like a child constantly seeking parental approval?

New president Francois Hollande told Marois that the traditional policy of ni ni is back.

That's an abbreviation for non-interference, non-indifference. In other words: neutrality.

Marois got exactly what she wanted in Paris.

Former President Sarkozy refused to get involved in the Quebec question, saying the world already has enough division. Well said.

 

Sex offender registry should be public

You can have nothing but compassion for Michel Surprenant.

His teenaged daughter Julie was brutally snatched away from him in 1999.

Julie was 16. The case was never solved. Her body was never found.

A deathbed confession from a convicted sex offender was the closest they got.

This week a coroner ruled that Julie was probably killed by Richard Bouillon, who lived in the apartment upstairs from the Surprenants.

Michel Surprenant’s message this week was that the national registry of sex offenders should be made public.

We have a right to know if the guy who just moved in next door has a record of deviant behaviour.

The registry has the names of 28,000 Canadians, over 5,000 here in Quebec.

Some will argue that the predators have paid their price and should be left alone, but

many experts will tell you they cannot be cured.

We must keep our children safe. Because every day, every day for the past 13 years Michel Surprenant wishes he had known about the guy upstairs.