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traveller_76, I don't know what intent Techman has or had in his choice of the terms or expressions that he used, so if his choices evoked emotions you must admit that maybe they were only emotional to you as well as others on the opposing side of the debate. And if you chose not to listen to...

eastender, Sorry but the reason why the oil still exists in the Albertan tar sands is that at previous crude prices per barrel it wasn't economically feasible to extract the oil from the sand but at the avg. current prices is now affordable and comparable. Here are the other main issues why...

eastender, The Canadian dollar's fluctuation is not only attributable to the US$'s slide and GW but also the strength of Canadian resource industry & the rest of the world need all that we've got under our soil or on top of it (tar sands), as nature will have. China needs our metals big time &...

GG, What makes you think that members of some ethnic groups are even remotely interested in working as a civil servant whether it be at whatever governmental level ? As some have mentioned, certain cultures aren't in the least interested in working as a unionized worker and the last I heard...

GG, I'd truly like to subscribe to your edenostic view about the subsidizing of the cultural communities in Quebec but I don't. They have no legal choice but to do so, as they are subsidizing the French communities too. Should they choose to stop subsidizing the ethnic communities and continue...

GG, I'm sorry but I do not see your correlation between the salaries of professionals & policymakers. Are you referring to politicians as being policymakers ? If you are, decisions by politicians or bureaucrats are not made in any wishful vacuum, they are made based on what can be afforded by...

eastender, Almost all large amounts of "Venture Capital" must be attained from the Americans as our economy is too small to finance these projects, even today. I didn't omit to mention it, I assumed that everyone knew this but you're correct, that's why every Quebec Premier had & will always...

GG, The Jewish community isn't alive and well at all & what the author omitted to mention is that everything is cyclical, as is the migration of young Jews out of Quebec. The so called leveling off is predominently due in large part because the next generational wave of qualified university...

SeeCupRider, You continually make reference to apostrophes and I'm sorry to say that it seems that you seem to miss the bigger picture of (by extension) of the small mindedness of an ignorant beaurcrat who obviously is so consumed by hate, that he or she must even suggest such an inane...

GG, I can't believe that anyone would say that about the ethnic community. In almost each of the ethnic communities in Quebec the young are & have been migrating to other locales (rest of Canada) as their professions have drawn them there and it's for one reason and one reason alone more money...

SeeCupRider, Yeah there once was a tea sipping community of rich English (British stock) people in Westmount but once those damn Jews started to buy their way in lead by the Bronfmans and Steinbergs, they couldn't run fast enough to leave. Seriously though, (in part) it hasn't been that way in...

SeeCupRider, When was there a monolithic English community here in Quebec, pre WW1 ? Once European immigrants started to come here en masse around the turn of the 20th century, they wanted to be a part of a society that was free, not devasted by war & had opportunity for them & their children...

SeeCupRider, So if this is so, how would one explain Wagar HS in the strong English bastion of Cote St Luc ? By the way, Westmount HS can't be far along that path either. and this I find that a tad offensive. Those communities who have been & their children who have been educated here in...

metoo4 & the_one_with_many_harems, If societies don't replace themselves by birthrate, meaning more than 2 children per couple then their population will eventually die. As North American economics have dictated, the birthrate is well below that number, coupled with the non allowance of...

eastender, Not all private schools receive subsidies from Quebec. Those private schools who abstain from the language regulations re: admissions have forfeited their subsidies to do so. Have you gone to a private English school or sent a child to one ? Are you speaking from personal experience...

eastender, I think that I'm safe in stating that I'm considerably older than you & your statement of both the Catholic & Protestant confessional schoool boards both had priests and nuns as teachers is incorrect. I attended here in Montreal a Protestant school board elementary & high schools and...

Yeah I went there & it's not good at all. Value or otherwise! To give an idea of how bad it was, I can't or don't want to remember what I had. The others in my party also didn't enjoy their meals