In Quebec, employment was up 15,000 in September, pushing the unemployment rate down 0.5 percentage points to 7.7%. The number of workers in Quebec has risen by 122,000, or 3.2%, over the past year, the second highest growth rate at the national level after Newfoundland and Labrador.
Any reason why a Montreal paper would ignore the second highest rate of growth of jobs? Can't be a bias or an agenda to omit the great news for Quebec?
PM Harper hugs Hurricane Igor Victim
Newfoundland and Labrador posted employment gains of 4,900. This province has had the fastest rate of growth of all provinces over the past 12 months, at 5.3% (+11,000). At the same time, the unemployment rate has trended down, reaching 13.5% in September, the lowest rate since July 2008.
Media Bias for Negative Storyline
Does the media introduce a rift on the Atlantic Accord from 2006 in 2010 after the Premier has stated on many occasions water under the bridge during the visit of the PM on the destruction of Hurricane Igor?
There was little change in employment in September, as full-time gains were offset by part-time losses. The unemployment rate edged down 0.1 percentage points to 8.0%, as fewer people, particularly youth, participated in the labour market.
How did the media report the move from 8.0 to 8.1 in July-September? Historically the United States traditionally had lower unemployment rate than Canada. In 2006 a Government led by Stephen Harper has changed the dynamic. Canada had entered the global recession last and was the first developed economy to have exited. Does the media introduce the context how the Canadian dollar is not trading at a discount 30% or we are beating the Americans on the recovery?
Negative Frame Disgraced Military Commander with Conservatives?
Is the media too busy to produce clips of former CFB Trenton commander Colonel Russel facing over 80 charges without Minister of Defence Peter Mackay?
Bottom feeding Press or Bias?
When the Keith Richards, Rolling Stones were arrested in 1977 did the media act like bottom feeders and go after the wife of the Prime Minister because she attended concerts or associated herself with the band?
Quebec's own government portal demonstrates how dependent they are in exporting to the U.S. market. Did you know the United states accounted for 69.2% or $ 40.3 billion CAD in 2009? The importance continues with import accounting for thirty one per cent from the U.S.
Quebec is blessed with geography and able to utilize water to generate vast amounts of electricity for it's industries and residents. Some provincial government have complained the government of Quebec keeps the rates of hydro artificially low to protect Quebec's energy intensive manufacturing in automobiles, airplanes and newsprint.
International Merchandise
Crude Oil makes up the largest part accounting for 12.9% - $ 9.0 Billion CAD in 2009. Automobile and chassis came in second for 8.8% - $6.2 Billion CAD. Other oil and coal derivatives third 3.3% - $ 2.3% Billion CAD.
Export
Québec exports its goods and services across Canada and around the globe. Exports totaled $133.8 billion (CAD) in 2009, representing 44.5% of Québec’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Of this total, the share of international exports is 57.5%, whereas that of interprovincial exports stands at 42.5%. Moreover, goods account for 72.5% of this trade while services represent 27.5%.
Canadian Oil Imports
For geographic and economic reasons oil is exported from the west and the Atlantic offshore and crude oil is imported in the eastern and central regions; on balance, we are a large and growing net oil exporter.
About half of the crude oil used by Canadian refiners comes from imports.
The Atlantic region and Quebec are dependent on crude oil imports. Following the reversal of the Sarnia to Montreal pipeline in 2001, Ontario refiners imports have declined to only 124 MB/D in 2006.
Interestingly, in 2006, while Canada’s oil imports totalled .85 MMB/D, 44 percent of these imports came from OPEC countries and 37 percent came from the North Sea.
Between 2005 and 2006, Canada’s crude oil imports declined by 77 thousand barrels per day to 850 MB/D, as domestic oil production made up for a decline in crude oil imports.
In Ontario, between 2005 and 2006, crude oil imports declined by 34 thousand barrels per day. In the Atlantic Provinces crude oil imports declined by 45 thousand barrel per day. There was a slight increase in crude oil imports in the Province of Quebec (1-2 thousand barrels per day).
As we ramp up our domestic production our need for foreign imports decrease in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.
Does it make sense to buy less oil from OPEC?
If we help the Americans import less oil from OPEC nations that don't share our Western values of democracy, rule of law, equality and protection regardless of gender, sexual orientation will Canada's oil and natural gas exports be recognized?
Does Quebec need a new political movement that does not attack minority language rights? Are they playing the survival of language and cultural card again? It is something to behold how the French Government in France has rounded up and deported Gypsies back to Romania. Do the political elites in the Bloc and Parti Quebecois share a blanket desire to remove non-French speaking players from Quebec?
In a lengthy television interview broadcast last week, Pierre Curzi, the Parti Québécois language critic, advanced his theory about why there are not more Quebecers lacing up for the Canadiens: It is a federalist plot to rob Quebecers of one of the most stirring symbols of their identity.
Asked by the host of the Télé-Québec program Les Francs-tireurs about the shortage of “francophone Quebecers” on the Canadiens, Mr. Curzi said it is by design.
“I don’t get paranoid about conspiracies, but I say that when the biggest symbol of our identity, namely the Montreal Canadiens hockey team, does not play any more francophones, when you go there, that is damned well political,” he said.
How does the annointed Liberal leader play his party in this cultural war?
Ignatieff can be the first transformational Canadian leader in a generation. He is an intellect, internationally respected and, perhaps most importantly, he has a sophisticated and articulate knowledge of, and belief in, liberalism. What more, he is emerging politically along-side a US administration with which he shares ties and ideological and policy sensibilities. Both his and Power long play from academia to politics seem to have proved successful. -One Step Closer to an Obama-Ignatieff Continent
"Quebeckers walk around with this fantasy of how different they are, but they are just North Americans who speak French...They take the minor difference and magnify it."-
G Mail interview - Jan Wong 1998. How does he compare today?
Last weekend, Mr. Ignatieff toured parts of Saskatchewan. When asked by Jeremy Warren of Saskatoon’s Star-Phoenix about his party’s support for Bill C-232, a law currently before the Senate that would make fluency in both official languages a prerequisite for appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada, the Liberal leader said that if Western Canadians want to get on the country’s highest court in the future, they “might want to study a little French.”
The NDP, Bloc and Liberals are all on the same page. Have you heard the Liberals attack the separatists on this latest stunt invoking the French language?
Our PM represents all of Canada and some world leaders share his passion for hockey. This is not Quebec's game, it belongs to everyone.
Do the Separatists prefer we restrict or eliminate European hockey players from the only Quebec team because they don't speak French? A past Toronto Leafs Harold E. Ballard owner was also hostile in regards to Europeans players. Our PM is an avid Hockey fan. In Barrie he participated with Don Cherry to help raise two hundred thousand for charity.
Quebec's official Opposition leader, Pauline Marois, said this week that the Habs have become a promotional tool for Canadian federalism.
The guy can’t lose. He gets to march around his home province, the only one he cares about, railing about how Quebec gets shafted because it doesn’t have an arena in the National Capital (that being Quebec City) because the filthy federalists are too busy spending their stimulus money (argent stimulusse) in parts of the country where they speak some foreign language like English. Everyone listening to Radio-Canada nods and agrees: “That’s right! If we were independent, we’d have a great big arena in Quebec and our team would only speak French and we’d win the Stanley Cup eight times out of 10, because when you’re independent, you win the Stanley Cup.”)- NP
She said she wished the team had more francophone stars she could cheer for. One of her P.Q. caucus members went even farther: Pierre Curzi said recently that the Habs are actively plotting against Quebec separatism — and that the exclusion of French-speaking players was part of that plot.
In making that argument, the PQ was picking up on a common complaint in recent years that the legendary team once dubbed the Flying Frenchmen — has almost no French-speaking players anymore.
So what, the NHL has changed for the better. The addition of more people from different cultures speaking different languages is not a federal plot: it is good business. The owners have a larger pool of talent to select players and that will help keep costs down and profits up. Professional hockey should not become a taxpayer charity.
It is of NO surprise Separatists do not want a strong united country that includes Quebec. In good economic times opposition movements, political parties are unable to exploit the fear and prejudices of wedge politics easily.
Canada has done very well in comparison to other advanced economies. during this Global Recession. We are not out of it as job losses and protectionism is growing in the United States and many European countries. Separatists would argue for language and cultural purity. History has many examples of those kinds of visions. Let's hope voters become informed and dismiss these failed politicians that regularly resort to culture or language as a tool.
Jesse Owens 1936 Olympics
...multiculturalism has been perceived in Quebec as a policy whose effect is to trivialize Quebec’s assertion of its own identity by treating the Québécois as one among many ethnic groups, it is also a policy suited to Canada’s new face.
This is a glimpse into the ideology of Quebec separatists, they prioritize their own sovereignty interests before the well-being of the united country.
Do you think our media does enough to highlight the bigotry and push back the assertion of Xenophobic elites based in Quebec? Where is the condemnation from any of the coalition?
I can't see Russia from my porch but I can certainly hear those crickets in Liberal ville.
According to a report in Monday’s Journal de Quebec, Gilles Duceppe met this week with the U.S. Consul-General posted to Quebec and with the State Department’s Director of Canadian Affairs, and requested their assistance in organizing a visit to several American cities in October. The purpose of the tour, according to the report, is to promote Quebec sovereignty internationally.
Separatist Worldview?
“I hope to explain Quebec’s situation and how we see it. We already do this regularly each year with ambassadors posted to Canada. It’s the Bloc’s job to communicate a point of view that is different from what they get from Messrs. Harper, Ignatieff et Layton.”
I witnessed earlier this month. As various natives described the cause of the demonstration - the desire for democracy and self-determination, frustration with laws and court rulings from Madrid, the capital of Spain - the similarities to the states' rights movement here in the US in response to Washington overreach were too similar for me to ignore. - Catalonian Tea Party?
The conflict in Catalonia is political, fiscal, historical and cultural. Catalonia was once a sovereign nation that was conquered by Spain 300 years ago. Their culture is actually closer to French culture than Spanish, and their language is something of a mix between French and Italian. I say this because this is not an instance of a truly Spanish state trying to break away from Spain, rather a completely different nation/culture trying to rule itself.
Conservative revenue is up about 60% since the 2004 changes to party finance. The Liberals are down 12%. Righting that balance has to be one of Michael Ignatieff's biggest priorities as Liberal leader.- Mapleleaf Web
Between 2004 and 2008, Canadians will have spent $290 million on subsidies to federal political parties. If subsidies continue, either because of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s reversal on the matter, or if a Liberal-NDP-Bloc Quebecois coalition takes power, Canadians will pay out another $260 million to parties between 2009 and 2013. That’s almost the price tag on another federal election fight between Ottawa’s warring forces.- Frontier Centre
Exit Strategy?
We have forty-nine Separatists demand their voice be heard. These Separatists demand Canada respect their demands of allowing Quebec to secede by playing the victim card. These forty-nine separatist ignore the results of two referendums.
The Separatists have no problem in demanding their minority voice represents the majority interest in retaining an imbalance of seats in the federal parliament. The Separatists have no difficulty in demanding the majority of Canadians stop progress, plans to adopt a national regulator or balance their books if it impacts on their interests. These Separatists have NEVER won the support of the majority in Quebec voters in any general election but they regularly stand up and accuse the federalist Members of Parliament in Quebec as voting against the best interest of Quebec. How does our Canadian media refer to the 38% popular vote in Quebec for the Separatists? Can you find an analysis of these riding and Bloc support? Where do the Separatists have the most of their support and seats? The Bloc with 87% are the most dependent on the political party subsidy welfare from the taxpayer compliments of the Chretien Liberal majority. The Liberals are next in reliance of the welfare from taxpayers.- Parliament: Rewriting History Canadian Media on Hiatus
The numbers tell the story. The Bloc raised only $850,000 last year but took in $2.7-million in public money, for a ratio of one private dollar to 3.5 public dollars. The Conservatives’ ratio is 1.7 to 1, the Liberals about 1 to 1 and the NDP about 1 to 1. The national parties, therefore, are working as best as they can at fundraising, earning at least as much, if not more, from their own efforts than from public funds.
The Bloc, as you can see from the numbers, is mostly riding on taxpayers’ dollars – most of them from outside Quebec – to promote itself and, by extension, the breakup of Canada
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November 2008 Coalition
Here, then, is the greatest effect of the law of unintended consequences: Canadians’ tax dollars are being used legally but quite flagrantly to finance a party that wants to end the country as we have known it for 143 years. Understanding this, no one should ever question the generosity of Canadians, although that generosity can certainly be described as nuts.-Party financing: Yes, end the public subsidy, but raise the individual limit
I recommend you look at Pundits Guide for update information about Political Finances. It is the best non-partisan site for Canadian politics with numbers for analysis.
The Conservatives took in $4.1 million in donations between April 1 and the end of June, compared to $2.4million for the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecoiscombined. For the Conservatives it is their best second quarter result since coming to power in 2006, despite months of negative headlines about deficits, Guergis and the G20. The Liberals raised a total of $1.6 million, down from last year's total of $4 million when they actually out-tallied the Conservatives on fundraising.- Media Coalition Efforts Fail To Dent Conservative Agenda
Will the Liberals, Democrats side with the Separatists in blocking Democratic Reform of adding seats to Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia and by protecting the federal tax dollars for the separatist point of view on the international stage?
Will the Liberals and Democrats denounce the separatists who may damage trade and international relations for pushing their point of view already rejected two times?
ImTranslator 3.3.3-P (translation services)
The four main born countries immigrants of this quarter are Morocco (11.9 %), France (7.8 %), Colombia (6.9 %) and Algeria (6.6 %). These four countries total third of the complete movement of immigration of first quarter of 2010. In the same quarter of 2009, the main born countries Algeria (8.9 %), France (8.8 %) were, Morocco (8.6 %) and China (5.8 %).
Immigration Quebec 2009- Report here.
The relating weight of the workers qualified in the total movement of immigration has an impact on the proportion of the immigrants knowing French. The persons accepted in the subcategory of the skilled workers represent 63,. % of the immigrants arrived in the course of year 2009 and 78.5 % of them declared to know French.
For year 2009, the four main regions of destination remain unchanged in comparison with the fourth quarter, with one relating parts which get closer to those of last quarter: 72.3 % for the administrative region from Montreal, 7.9 % for the region of Montérégie, 5.3 % for that of Laval and 4.7 % for the administrative region of the Capital National.
The volume of the admission of year 2009 is superior to that of year 2008 for African continent (28.9 %) and the continent European (8.2 %). They point out variations the most important among admission in the region of North Africa (37.3 %) and in that of oriental Africa (41.3 %).
Réfugiés et personnes en situation semblable - Refugees and persons in similar situation
Sélectionnés à l'étranger - Chosen abroad
reconnus sur place -acknowlege in place
h/t Whose dime is Duceppe traveling on?
Jane Taber's article about ignoring the demands of Quebec from an opinion from a pollster. A few in the left are freaking out, with graphs and projections trying to explain how the Conservatives should not ignore the fact only 45% (approximately) of the seats in Quebec are voting for a federal party since 1993. The term low hanging fruit requires an understanding of common sense something lacking in most unskeptical minds. I originally blogged here on re-balancing Parliament.
Ignore the polls, ignore the census and ignore Quebec. Nothing will change the Harper government’s minority status until legislation passes creating more seats in the House of Commons, Ipsos pollster John Wright says.
The left are scared
If a majority is IMPOSSIBLE, why all the FUSS? The Separtists threatening , making noise, passing motions in Quebec City to the effect? We will be quoting Hamlet Act 3, scene II, Verses 222-230 if those in the left keep telling us it is a mistake to ignore Quebec.
The unskeptical mind will without reservation accept the proselytizing of self acclaimed experts (Al Gore, David Suzuki, here without examining if a bias exists in their presentations if it projects their belief system.
Bill C-12 is designed to address a distortion in the manner in which population growth is reflected by growth in the number of elected representatives assigned to each province. The Bill seeks to remedy this distortion by enacting a new formula for seat readjustments in the House of Commons. As with the formula presently employed to readjust the number of members seated in the House, Bill C-12 prescribes a formula that readjusts seats after each decennial census, while also apportioning any newly created seats to the province or provinces that experienced population growth from one decennial census to the next- Summary here.
Social Justice Champions?
Reality sucks for those in the left who have a difficult time accepting the shift has begun in Canada , Europe, Australia and even China.
See any bicycles?
The Pierre Trudeau Liberal ideals have been transformed to a more pragmatic worldview. The world has changed and for some in the media, Quebec and left of centre parties reality has been very discomforting lately.
We have Mother Nature to thank for the expressionlowhangingfruit. A fruit-bearing tree often contains some branches low enough for animals and humans to reach without much effort. The fruit contained on these lower branches may be not be as ripe or attractive as the fruit on higher limbs, but it is usually more abundant and easier to harvest. From this we get the popular expression "lowhangingfruit", which generally means selecting the easiest targets with the least amount of effort.
Another use of the expression lowhangingfruit can be found in the political arena. A politician may set a number of easily attainable goals, essentially lowhangingfruit, and accomplish them with minimal effort. The voters may perceive the politician's actions as proof of his strong work ethic, but in reality he only reached for the political benefits of lowhangingfruit. Critics often use the expression lowhangingfruit to describe someone who chooses a sure thing over a more difficult but more rewarding pursuit.
The idea of lowhangingfruit can be viewed as both a positive and a negative. On the one hand, lowhangingfruit is usually plentiful and often ignored by those looking for more attractive offerings. But lowhangingfruit can also be seen as a negative, since the picker understands how low the quality of the fruit can be and picks it anyway. Someone who consistently chooses the immediate gratification of lowhangingfruit could be seen by others as lazy or unambitious.
According to Statistics Canada's census metropolitan areas, in Ontario, the Toronto CMA (which includes 23 cities in the surrounding areas such as Milton, Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton, Newmarket, Markham and Richmond Hill in addition to Toronto proper) has grown from 4,682,897 people in the last decennial census in 2001 to 5,623,500 in 2009, which is a 20 per cent increase.
According to Elections Canada, Liberal MP Andrew Kania currently has the highest populated riding in Brampton West, Ont., with 170,422 people. This is compared to Conservative MP Greg Rickford who has the least number of constituents in his Kenora, Ont., riding with 64,291 people. Kenora is a rural riding, but even in the nation's capital, Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger, who represents Ottawa-Vanier, Ont., has 101,611 constituents.
If population were the number one criterion for the electoral boundary commissions, Ontario could see new ridings created around Mr. Kania's riding, as well as in other GTA ridings Markham, Vaughan, Bramalea, Halton, Mississauga, Whitby, Thornhill, Brampton, Scarborough, Willowdale, Cambridge and Kitchener, as well as two ridings in the Ottawa area.
The top 18 most populated ridings in Ontario are held evenly between Conservatives and Liberals at nine each.
In Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary are the fastest growing cities. In 2001, Calgary had a population of 878,866, according to Statistics Canada, and in 2009, it grew to 1,230,200, a 39.9 per cent increase. Edmonton went from a population of 666,104 in 2001 to 1,155,400 in 2009, a 73.45 per cent increase. Conservative MP Chris Warkentin's Peace River riding is the most populated in Alberta with 138,009 constituents, and NDP MP Linda Duncan's Edmonton-Strathcona riding is the least populated at 99,267.
The four other highest populated ridings in Alberta are Rob Anders' Calgary West, Diane Ablonczy's Calgary-Nose Hill, Devinder Shory's Calgary Northeast and Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose's Edmonton-Spruce Grove. These could all be areas where potential new ridings could be created.
Pundits Guide
In British Columbia, Vancouver's CMA grew from 1,986,965 in 2001 to 2,328,000 in 2009, a 17.1 per cent growth. The Vancouver CMA includes surrounding areas such as Langley, Mission, Coquitlam, Maple Ridge, Richmond and Surrey among other smaller towns.
Pundits Guide
Conservative MP John Weston has the most populated riding in B.C. His West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding has 129,241 constituents, compared to Conservative MP Jim Abbott's Kootenay-Columbia riding with 86,811 constituents.
Pundits Guide
The seven ridings that could be changed based on population are NDP MP Jean Crowder, who represents Nanaimo-Cowichan, Conservative MPs Edward Fast (Abbotsford, B.C.), Nina Grewal (Fleetwood-Port Kells, B.C.), Andrew Saxton (North Vancouver, B.C.) and Ronald Cannan (Kelowna-Lake Country, B.C.) and Liberal MP Hedy Fry (Vancouver Centre, B.C.).
Pundits Guide
None of these charts are projections prediction about the future, they are a FACT of what already has transpired. No one can predict how the seats will ultimately breakdown or if the legislation will PASS.
A great philosopher Bobby McFerrin used to say Don't worry be happy!
I prefer to look to Doris Day for her sophistry about life.
