If Harper wins a majority, Quebec will separate
Although this should be obvious to everyone, our moronic mainsteam media are not discussing it and therefore it is worth detailing how it will unfold.
Quebec is the most anti-Harper province in Canada. Take away the bulwark of the Bloc Quebecois seats in Parliament and rump Canada is overwhelmingly Barry Goldwater-like Harper Land. Quebec society at every level overwhelmingly opposes Harper's cultural, social and economic conservatism. Quebecers are in fact repulsed by Harper's retrograde conservatism and antidemocratic authoritarianism.
If Harper were to win a majority in Parliament, Bloc Leader Gilles Duceppe will likely not want to spend five years as a front row spectator to Harper's unfettered destruction of Canadian democracy. To salvage democracy for Quebecers, Duceppe would quit federal politics to take over as leader of the provincial Parti Quebecois. Duceppe is the most popular political figure in Quebec, second only to Rene Levesque in historic popularity amongst current Quebecers.
Keep in mind that during the last referendum on separation in 1995, Canada was governed by the centre of the road Chretien Liberals. In that referendum, the vote for separation was almost 50-50 and the status quo Confederation stayed in place thanks only to a mere 100,000 vote difference. Under a Harper majority Government, Quebecers will witness the full brunt of Harper's retrograde conservatism and antidemocratic authoritarianism. They would quickly realize that the only way to safeguard their democratic institutions, society and culture would be to separate. Duceppe would easily lead Quebec to separation in a third and final referendum.
Personally I support Separation. I support people's right to self determination everywhere, including of course in my native Quebec. As a Quebecer, I see more hope for democracy inside a separate Quebec than I do inside a Harper Canada. We have already seen how a minority Harper Government has chipped away at Canadian democracy. With a majority government, Canada's sociopathic and hateful Prime Minister Harper will lay waste to what remains of Canada's democratic institutions.
Over time, states come and go. Under a majority Harper Government, the 144 year old experiment known as Canada is over. One can only feel sorry for those who will be left behind in Harper's Rump State. It won't be a good place.
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that Harper's win is being attributed to the 'death of separatism' and the 'rise of federalism'.
The Bloc party is dead, after this election and Harper got his majority. I'd be curious to see what this author would write as a follow-up to the outcome of the election (both the Liberals and the Bloc were severely defeated this time around).
I don't disagree one bit that this is the end of the Canada we know - but it isn't just Harper taking us there, Iggy would have done the same thing and it still remains to be seen how the NDP will behave - Layton has shown his support of Isreal, war in Afganistan, and hasn't mentioned a word about monetary reform - different colours but same same same from my perspective...so any majority gov't is taking us down the globalist path - is there any country where the leaders are not doing this - where they are not working on behalf of the psychopath elite at the detriment of the citizens?!