Friday 15 October 1999 Separatist support plunging: poll JOAN BRYDEN Satisfaction with Premier Lucien Bouchard's separatist government has
plummeted as support for Quebec
independence has dropped to its lowest
level in years, a new poll suggests.
The Ekos Research Associates survey,
conducted Sept. 10 to Oct. 14, found fully
57 per cent of Quebecers polled believed
the Bouchard government was heading in
the wrong direction. Only 37 per cent
believed it was heading in the right
direction.
Thursday 19 August 1999
Alliance Quebec is no shell WILLIAM JOHNSON "the empty shell that is Alliance Quebec." [need we say more DTN]
Monday 18 October 1999
Dumont takes party message to the Net
The Action Democratique du Quebec wrapped up its general council
meeting yesterday by launching an ambitious campaign to push its
policies on the Parti Quebecois government by means of the Internet
site Mario.Dumont.net
Monday 19 July 1999 A message to Ontario ..Protect French: new official-languages commissioner TERRANCE WILLS ..
Ontario "needs to take better care" of French, the incoming commissioner of
official languages says.
Dyane Adam, who takes on her new federal role Aug. 1, was speaking about
Ontario's intention to cut services at Ottawa's Montfort Hospital, the lone
French-language teaching hospital west of Quebec.
"This particular case, I must say, is very close to me as a franco-Ontarian," she said. "I do think this province of Ontario needs to take better care of the other official language."
Monday 19 July 1999 The quality of French ...
In pursuing their goal of strengthening the place of French in Quebec, successive
provincial governments have put most of their efforts into coercive measures -
steering immigrant children into French-language schools and discouraging other
languages' visibility. Unfortunately, they have put relatively little effort into
improving the quality of both spoken and written French.
This helps explain a sadly ironic phenomenon: while the quantity of Quebecers
who know French is constantly rising, the actual quality of French has generally
been declining. To be sure, the quality of English in Canada is wobbly and also
requires vigilance. But in the case of Quebec French, wild grammatical shortcuts
and the growing respectability of the rude articulation that playwright Michel
Tremblay brought out of the closet decades ago are making it increasingly difficult
for francophones on other continents even to understand what we Quebecers are saying.
A report made public last week by the Conseil de la Langue Francaise says that businesses are now complaining of "difficulties in recruiting people with a
competent language base." The report, by Conseil researcher Jacques Maurais,
says there are no easy solutions. Spoken French is most needy of attention, but the
report says it will be hard to remedy so long as there is an "absence of a model of
well-spoken French among the teaching corps as a whole." Another bad influence,
it says, is the quality of French used on radio, television and in the movies.
Thursday 13 May 1999 Alliance dissidents form lobby They quit because of William Johnson's style of defending English rights; now, some former Alliance Quebec directors have started a new group
that already claims 300 members. BILL BROWNSTEIN
Saturday 24 April 1999 Alliance Quebec has lost its
balance The group should be doing more to promote
the integration of English Quebecers and of
English into the new Quebec. It should also
recognize that the 'lamb lobby' is a myth JULIUS GREY ...the hard-liners have invented a myth, that of the "lamb lobby." According to this myth, the
anglophone community was betrayed by its leaders into
complying with oppressive language laws and took all of the
indignities heaped upon it lying down. Then the hard-liners
came on the scene, resisted and - presto! - results appeared.
Nothing could be farther from the truth..... They have
embarked on a futile and self-defeating crusade, backed by
misleading polls about popular support, to obtain freedom
of choice in education and to abrogate all rules regarding
signs. Although their defeat is easy to predict, they will
undoubtedly rage against Quebec's "chauvinism" and
against the "lamb lobby" when it finally occurs.
In doing this, the hard-liners have completely forgotten the
other purpose of Alliance Quebec - that of integration and
reconciliatio (saved)
- Julius Grey is a Montreal lawyer and law professor at
McGill University.
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Saturday 17 April 1999
Gaspe splits from Alliance by PHILIP AUTHIER
Another of Alliance Quebec's key member organizations, this
one representing Gaspe English-speakers, has quit the coalition.
After months of quietly fuming about the Alliance's direction
under president William Johnson, the Committee for Anglophone
Social Action (CASA), said it has had enough. Lynden
Bechervaise, co-founder of CASA and a stalwart in the Gaspe
English community, also tendered his personal resignation from
Alliance's board of directors.
Tuesday 2 March 1999
Equality Party is a goner Equality is dead as a political party DON MACPHERSON
One thing about corpses is that they don't realize that
they're dead. And if they do, they're rarely known to admit
it. But whether a corpse admits that fact or not, it remains
just as dead.
click here to a good site
It's About Time
Christopher C. Goodfellow MBA
January 22 1999
"To win a war ... First you must start one" DTN
Thursday 11 February 1999
Cutting Alliance funding not answer by DON MACPHERSON
When William Johnson became president of Alliance
Quebec last year, some nationalists demanded that the
federal government reassess its funding of the province's
most prominent English-rights organization.
Now the leader of another English-rights organization has
made a similar suggestion.
Gary Richards, president of the Townshippers' Association,
has in effect suggested that Ottawa cut the Alliance's future
funding because of the controversial positions of its
president....
He said Johnson's "grandstanding" forces the Townshippers
to spend more time mending fences with franco-phones and
less time on its other work.
Richards says that Alliance claims to represent all
English-speaking Quebecers, but doesn't. [this is correct ..only a buss load of people who voted William Johnson in .. but the rest of the English don't want him or the Alliance and do not want our taxes paying him to mess up our Quebec family! DTN]
Saturday 30 January 1999
Backsliding on diversity ..if you're not an
old-stock francophone, or if you're handicapped, you're not
really welcome. [bull shit! you may have to try harder but ... DTN]
Saturday 30 January 1999
There is hope for sovereignty by JOSEE LEGAULT
Last Saturday, I wrote that something was askew in
sovereignty circles. The premier refuses to promote the
PQ's option. The excessive authority he has over his
caucus, party and many sovereignist opinion leaders has
resulted in the marginalization of those who openly express
their worry about this troubling silence.
Saturday 23 January 1999
Something is askew in sovereignty circles by JOSEE LEGAULT
Saturday 23 January 1999
Court of last resort Anglos no longer can depend on political process to protect them
DON MACPHERSON With little to show for the first half of his term as Alliance
Quebec president except a sheaf of press clippings about his
signs-boycott fiasco, it was inevitable that William Johnson
would be heard from again once he could no longer do any
harm to the electoral prospects of Jean Charest.
Friday 22 January 1999
Fat on the fire Alliance Quebec's access-plan tactics won't
go over well with francophones MICHEL DAVID Le Soleil
My anglophone colleagues at the press conference by
William Johnson and Guy Bertrand in Quebec City on
Wednesday found that very little time was given for
questions in English. After all, the press conference dealt
with access to health services in English.
Thursday 21 January 1999
Alliance sues over delays to access plans by PHILIP AUTHIER (saved)
Wednesday, October 07, 1998 Can Democracy Survive in Quebec?
Christopher C. Goodfellow MBA [an MBA may not get you a job .. but you will not get an MBA if you can't write DTN]
Friday, October 02, 1998 Language of linguistic peace Pity the poor shopkeepers of Montreal, caught as they are in a political squeeze between Alliance Quebec, the English-rights lobby, and the language mavens in the Parti Québécois cabinet. Roused from their self-induced torpor and pushed into assuming their linguistic rights, they have incurred
the wrath of Premier Lucien Bouchard, his deputy Bernard Landry and Language Minister Louise Beaudoin. Whether the stores end up as pawns or martyrs may well depend on their ability to withstand pressure and the amount of moral support they receive from the rest of Canada.
"..this represented for
the Pequiste government an opportunity to go out there and stir
the pot on the language issue."
[Bill J. is a greater help to those he is trying to destroy. He wants to win a WAR but to do that he will first start a WAR ... If he did he would be the first shot... by the English! DTN]
The good news many, if not most, members of the Alliance hate Baby Bill Johnson and only stay with the charity to stop HIM
Dr. Mihailo Crnobrnja 'Could it
happen here?'
