Ron Paul hates freedom. Shouted.

Just like a neutron star in the internet universe he got too big and collapsed in on himself.

"Check around the rest of Canada"

I did travel there. Worst experience of my whole life.

"What in the fuck makes you think you deserve anymore special treatment than the rest of the country?"

What the fuck make you think we want a special treatment? Half of us want independance, the majority of the other half the ability to be autonomous within the country. That isn't a fucking special treatment, it's being a fucking confederation. You know, the thing we're supposed to be.

" If anything, more creedence belongs to the native tribes whose languages have all but vanished."

They already have, on the respect side, that is. Before 2006, Ottawa aknowledged the existence of the First Nations, but not Quebec. They have advantages like limited autonomy with that. We don't. I send half my fucking taxes to Ottawa and I want them back to my true and only country; Quebec.

"Canadian politicians have been kissing Quebec's ass for so long now, and yet you guys still think you deserve even more. Nonsense."

That's the core of the misunderstanding. Federalism isn't profitable to Quebec(and several others provinces might I add). Tell me a single thing Quebec got the rest don't, and I'll show you how it's another proof we're getting the wrong end of the stick.

"During the 80's, Trudeau took a lot of money from the first boom and shovelled it straight over to Quebec and Ontario"

Looks like you weren't there during the 80s: we were in a fucking recession. And when Ontario and Quebec is in a recession, that means the whole country is in it. We're the damn beating heart and lung of this country, and I can assure you what Trudeau did was nothing more that the usual equalization payments of today, which is pale in comparison of what each of those provinces shovel at the federal government themselves.

"The Adscam thing pretty much clinched conservative support out here, making people think that Quebec's elitist pandering was still going on, which it is."

The Adscam is only another proof on how things are done in Ottawa. Corruption, shady deals and the like are common, way more than in the provinces. Also, the only elite that profited from this was federalist might I add. They call themselves Canadians, not Quebeckers.

"That's the general sentiment out here. Quebec is daddy's favorite, while Alberta was being treated like the government's red-headed step child."

The irony is, we see things the complete other way here. You pollute the whole country, refuse to handle in a responsible way the oil industry and make inflation go higher and higher. Good thing the US recession is happenning, or else the federal funds rate would still be damn high.

"The irony is, we see things the complete other way here. You pollute the whole country, refuse to handle in a responsible way the oil industry and make inflation go higher and higher. Good thing the US recession is happenning, or else the federal funds rate would still be damn high."

See, I understand where you're coming from. You had problems with Trudeau, but so did we. I think that's why we both feel shafted, but in a way, it was for the benefit of the country as a whole.

Culturally, Quebec blows Alberta out of the water, but as far as your whole 'heart' comment, well, unfortunately Alberta is the machine supplying a ton of revenue.

But, don't blame Albertans for the way the oil companies dominate. You can blame that specifically on the heads of Harper and his PC goonsquad.

Pretty much any Albertan who isn't paid from big oil is seeing the costs go up and the dollar go down. I assume that works for the rest of the provinces as well.

Dion will never get the support of the west, and the conservatives own the media. Layton couldn't even win right now because the government is purposely distorting the news.

This isn't speculation. I read the paper daily, then crosscheck a lot of the stories online. Yes I need better hobbies, but the fact remains that Canadians are being just as manipulated as the US FOX viewers.

The CBC remains mostly unbiased, regardless what other news outlets may say. They are the only one, yet they're still in league with the CFR as far as the Ron Paul blackout goes now that I think about it.

Actually, fuck the CBC. They purposely manipulated AP stories to make it seem like McCain was the maverick longshot getting all the grassroots support.
Damned liars.

CBC does the most on showing the oilsands for what they are. I will give them that.

We need to be taking the media to task. Newspapers only regurgitate the same stories fed down the newswire because they are owned by corporate entities.

Here's a good article relating to the US media conglomerates.

http://adbusters.org/the_magazine/77/Media_Democracy
_on_the_March.html

This one relates to us Canadians.

http://www.canwestwatch.org

Do some reading.
These guys keep us purposely disinformed.
They don't care who is in power as long as they support their agenda.