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convergent trajectory: the liberal and the sailboat galley NDP

THE BORN-AGAIN

Dion Liberals

The party Canadian Liberal traditionally scattered around the "center", is repositioning itself in the post-Christian about a center-left more or less authentic. The movement has been sharpened by the government (clumsily) by Stéphane Dion. In doing so, he approaches the NDP, who is also a left-wing social (welfare state) but further, more centralized, pan-Canadian ", and more interested in moral comfort in our society than the construction of a set or even viable prosperous Canada.

THE REALIGNMENT OF THE LEFT CANADIAN

The meeting of the NDP and the Liberal Party is now inevitable, they act now in the same arena of ideology, the only major difference being that the PLC is essentially Ontario (focus) while the NDP is mainly eccentric (west coast and east coast).

The NDP's activist base behaves mainly as a network of lobbyists supporting various causes. The activist base of the LPC is mainly corporatist, but is now changing. There has also to exchange electorate on both sides in some counties. Despite logistical difficulties, so a reconciliation is possible.

This might result should the collapse of the LPC as a major party, a merger would be more or less forced (and uncomfortable) with the NDP, or perhaps a "grand alliance" to form a mix of center-left more or less solid. It is anticipated that a landslide victory for Conservative party would send a very violent shock wave the Canadian left, from there, nothing is impossible.

CONSERVATIVE PARALLEL WITH THE SINKING OF THE 1990S

When the Conservative Party collapsed after Mulroney, the possibility of a merger with an "ideological neighbor" was not an option, the party Conservative right was virtually alone on the ideological spectrum. The failures of the "spinoff" conservatives of the 1990s (Canadian Alliance, Reform Party, etc.) have shown, the ideological consolidation is the only way to regain power after the collapse of a major party. CONCLUSION

Tomorrow will we see the emergence ... "New Liberal Democratic Party (NPLD) or an outright" Canadian Democratic Party (PDC) ... an eclectic vehicle and an uneasy alliance, existing only for against the Conservatives? Certainly we are now seeing a radicalization of ideological positions in Canada, as it has never happened in modern Canadian politics. In this context, a center position becomes less marketable, because the political class needs to emulate the ideological shifts of the population it claims to represent ...

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There is nothing sacred

DEBUNK THE STATUE OF BOURGAULT

There is nothing sacred, least of all Pierre Bourgault. What makes me laugh today, this is the way of some people to ride Levesque separatists in the mud while hoisting Bourgault the status of demigod.

Bourgault, this writer who wanted to be a politician!

It's so easy to identify with characters young at heart - coat style leather bum chin to James Dean, depth typically nietzchéenne revolutionary - they have never actually worked to accomplish something something concrete politically, and who complain about their own failures and "betrayal" of their surroundings. A politician who complains about the betrayals of others is like a taxi who complains of being lost in the city.

Bourgault's inability to organize a political party, to reconcile the differing views, to delegate responsibilities and powers, to listen to others talk ... it connects you, friends?

Bourgault has been a well best writer, journalist, polemicist and commentator than a politician.

The INR was more a political club or a social forum, a real party. He would never have been able to bring constitutional changes, much less bring about unilateral secession. It was a forum for political and social revolutionary ideas of the time, relevant but not complete in itself. THE MYTH OF

"PARTY DIFFERENT"

Even today, sellers of ideas are popular, they are Socialists or Libertarians ... they seduce, but what have they really sacrificed to advance Quebec, except to sell books of political analysis self-indulgent, produce tabulations in Microsoft Excel, and complain about the incompetence of suspected villains elected politicians ? The real losers

, these are marginal, these self-proclaimed prophets, who have never been and will never have the power ... but who say, with their air of supreme morality: "Oh if I were prime minister I would do this and that, I would be so much better than these careerists.

Yet these are not photogenic idealistic public support (which they despise, while claiming to understand it!). They have no ability to the concessions necessary to the exercise of power. They fail to convince, complain the media "rogue" or social values "corrupt." They are so noble in their crusade to them. Maybe that deep in themselves they are aware of bear the seeds of their own failure.

SOCIALIST : Have you noticed how the socialist creed that considers the population has not good moral values and that we must educate , even frame it? It sounds like the wailing of social conservatives or credits Caouette!

Libertarian : Have you noticed how the libertarian credo considers all social organization, power manager, as a suspect? It sounds like the revolutionary Trotskyists. The libertarian ideal of breaking down borders, governments, organizations, to release the citizen ... Is not this called the permanent revolution ?

It is easy to sell the idea of "different party" idealism of wall-to-wall, purity of intentions. Present itself as an anti-politician who will revolutionize the Quebec and also run the orangeades in fountains. Just look at the marginal baba-cool of Québec solidaire, who lives literally on the margins of Quebec values real. Or that the ADQ endlessly entangled in its own contradictions. Which political party can boast of having taken more than 15 years before becoming mature, and have always failed? The ADQ!

HOW NOT SEDUCED BY THE QUEBEC

sovereignist If the Left wants to propose a new deal Quebec people, this is certainly not the socialist wing of QS sauce Davido-Khadirienne who manages to push it into the throat of the average Quebec. This, it is NOT a socialist and did not want to become. I feel that there are more green or PQ separatists disappointed that genuine socialists in the electoral base of QS.

These are not revolutionaries separatists who dream of a Party to the pure ideals Bourgaultien, who manage to reconcile the middle class - down-to-earth - with a social project involving major risks. Garroch sovereignty in the face, without a parachute, wearing an unbridled optimism, and you'll get between 0.5% and 5% of the votes.

Draw your own conclusions.

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The triumph of the absurd: "Quebecers of French Canadian Quebecers

The ineffable Bouchard has put together an identity as junk only intellectuals lack of political correctness (and moral warmth) may lay: we would be "Quebecers of French-Canadian origin." Such an expression is as sterile and depressing at the limit of absurdity. So we are, to paraphrase, the inhabitants of a geographic territory with civic-linguistic origins! Quite a detour to avoid naming a cat, a cat.

Here is a text written in response to blog Grand Inquisitor Language Paris, Paul Roux, who made quite candidly " an overview of the various terms used to describe Quebec " to stimulate discussion around the proposal of Mr. Bouchard.

a semantic problem

If we break the expression, "Quebecers of French-Canadian origin", we understand that this is a person who was born in Canada (outside Quebec?) And whose mother tongue is French (but necessarily), which was then established (geographically) in Quebec. If one takes the trouble to stress the original "Canadian" of a "Québécois" is that the origin is not in Quebec, is not it? Otherwise there is redundancy.

It is obvious that this poses for small semantic problems, I was born in Quebec, I am from Quebec and some of my ancestors came from France, Switzerland and Belgium. Will there be identified with his pedigree, so to please Mr. Bouchard and his detours semantics?

THE MYTH OF LINGUISTIC IDENTITY

Canada has built its foundation myth from two linguistic identities, which were mutated in ethnic identities. As if language was a people! As if Saskatchewanians, Acadians and Quebecers of the St Lawrence shared a coherent story and a common identity! The Canadian identity model is wrong. There are indeed a nation of Quebec, which is conscious of its own existence and which also includes groups that participated in the march of Quebec francophones in the St. Lawrence Valley, but also those of the Saguenay and Beauce, have their peculiarities, Métis and Aboriginal groups, the Irish, they are melted in our set or whether they have retained their traditions, and immigrants latest, if they chose to live "with us" and not "our side".

TWO HALF-IDENTITIES

"French Canadian" is a term that designates two half-identities. The sum does not at all, but rather because an identity crisis that prevents us from defining ourselves by ourselves and for ourselves.

Finally, Quebecers are as a people, identity as a nation (and not ethnic, linguistic or civic). But since Quebec is not a country, it is possible to live without feeling Quebecers. In this case, in good conscience refuse to participate development and evolution of this common identity, inclusive and well defined.

The proposal of Mr. Bouchard will have at least had the merit of demonstrating, with unexpected force, that the complex of Elvis Gratton is still alive in our beautiful "nation within a nation's civic symbolism."

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Feeding in the era of globalization

THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION

The globalization of trade and human movement is not a new concept. Who would have thought that the establishment of the Silk Road between the Roman West and China's Han Empire, would be the first wire ( silk ) between two cultures separated by thousands of miles? Caravan trade route to the spices of the Renaissance, all over the world were quickly joined by those invisible son that allowed food and wealth to travel at great expense, unimaginable distances at the time. It is said that the clove cost its weight in gold in the early 17th century. Black pepper was a luxury. Even the salt transported by camel across the Sahara, has long been an essential commodity but very expensive.

It is however with the establishment of the first true maritime empires that global trade routes, driven by competition between English, Portuguese and Dutch in Asia, have consolidated. It is said also that the insurance policies were created when English speculators began to bet on commercial vessels (when the boat was lost at sea, they lose their implementation for the benefit of the shipowner).

The British Empire functioned much like our "Western bloc" modern: the importance of raw materials (minerals, textile raw materials, foods, spices) of its colonies, transformed, and then exporting the finished products. We always do the same thing with bauxite from Guinea (transformed aluminum ingots in Saguenay or Kitimat, or more than 10,000 km from the place of extraction). Ironically, then we sold planes or cars with aluminum chassis Africans.

DERIVATIVES AND RESISTANCE

the early 20th century, Gandhi became a sort of anti-globalization activist first. It was absurd that the Indians are forced to buy British textiles cheaply when they themselves produced, at low wages, cotton or linen used to make them! The solution advocated by the great pacifist buy clothing made from textiles local unprocessed; fabrics coarser but more profitable locally, too. When buying a rough cotton shirt in India today, you follow the footsteps of Gandhi. Guineans will they do such a day?

The excesses of globalization are insidiously installed from the heyday of the British Empire in the late 19th century. It was at this time that the concepts underlying the modern state emerged, including the invention of the visa and passport. While raw materials and manufactured goods began to travel, they began to establish guidelines, limits on Travel between human settlements and cities. For the system to be preserved, it must control what is exchanged and ... which languished!

FACTOR ENERGY

But what has perverted the trade is all about the ridiculously low cost of energy since the end of the second world war. Coal, then oil has broken the principle of locality in the production-processing goods. Can be considered as incompatible economic systems, which formerly operated in isolation, are now interconnected at multiple levels. It can carry a perishable food, product in an economic system in line with local wages less than $ 1 a day, thousands of miles in a controlled atmosphere container for a ridiculous price per tonne. All thanks to fossil fuels. That's what makes the banana and clove are no longer luxury items ... but there are other consequences!

When transportation costs are so low, it is possible to sell a commodity produced on the other side of the planet (where the pay scale and cost is different from ours) to a fraction of the price. Thus the Thai or Filipino furniture replace our local markets. Same with apples or melons Chilean Mexican ... Yet while we have a climate conducive to growing these fruits! And yet these are often imported fruit varieties giant tasteless ("pockets of water" as I call him), sometimes grown under conditions unacceptable, and are picked long before maturity so that they can withstand transport. Result, they are far less nutritious than fruit picked at term and went on sale immediately. You love it, the fruit that tastes like water or starch? Besides the pollution caused by long-distance transport, the steps handling, overpack, etc..

TRACK SOLUTIONS

We live like princes, because our real prosperity is multiplied by the relative poverty of the rest of the planet. So no, it will not be possible to combat these excesses of globalization as two economic realities are in place, either: (1) the difference in scale between local and distant economies, and (2) costs ridiculously low transnational transport.

solutions? Encourage the growth of the middle class in countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Forcing large Vessel owners to use clean, safe and employ seafarers well paid and well treated (this will cost them dear). Establish a surcharge to the distance traveled by perishable goods (to put that money into environmental programs and in local agriculture).

RICH COUNTRIES, Wasteland

A troubling aspect of the globalization of food (agricultural production outsourced to third countries, processing stages spread over vast territories, etc.) is that many industrialized countries have become dependent, absolutely, trade. The richest countries tend to drop in primary agricultural production in favor of more lucrative economic activities. They place themselves in some way voluntarily into deficit in agriculture. In addition, the land previously dedicated to the production of foodstuffs are often converted to urban neighborhoods, in non-food products (textile products like cotton, oil, feed and biofuels), when they simply are not abandoned and left fallow . In Brazil, there is a conversion from agriculture to soybeans (for oil), canola, etc.. In Uzbekistan, the state maintains a monoculture of cotton, while the population is thirsty, that famine is endemic and the soil is highly contaminated by pesticides.

There are also historical examples. We should not forget that Spain has undergone major disturbances in the twilight of his empire at the end of the 19th century. The country had been left fallow since the riches drawn out of the colony allowed the Spaniards to obtain supplies of foodstuffs throughout Europe and North Africa - all paid for with gold from the colonies. Major irrigation works built by the Romans and maintained by the Moors, fell into ruin. The country was drier than ever, despite the efforts modern never regained its agricultural capacity of yesteryear. Food production and water management remain important sources of concern in countries where the soil has been neglected.

QUEBEC VULNERABLE?

With the globalization of agriculture, we produce in Quebec enough food to feed all Quebecers? If there was a crisis of international transport, a world war or economic collapse tomorrow morning, how many children die of hunger in Montreal or Quebec? Currently, we convert our best farmland in the suburbs, while farms in Quebec are strangled by the Canadian agricultural planning system, North American and global (FCC, NAFTA, GATT, etc.). We no longer have the right to financially assist our agricultural producers or even the preferred, as markets open to products cheap which, paradoxically, come from countries where hunger prevails. Their hunger could become ours one day.

When we will produce almost no food, we become very vulnerable to any economic or commercial surge that could affect (even marginally) the volume of our imports. It would be desirable and even essential, therefore, introduce a policy of food self-sufficiency for Quebec. It would be an important gesture of sovereignty and a responsible initiative.


Addendum: According this study (which analyzed some sectors of production), several European countries are any more self-sufficient in terms of food production. The case of Great Britain is unique. Although his self-sufficiency rate is 83%, it is an island and in case of crisis (such as a blockade or quarantine because of an epidemic), it is unclear whether the country would fare without a major famine. This analysis is even more pessimistic for Great Britain and assesses its sufficiency is only 60% real (ie, the UK currently imports 40% of its food). Some communities in northern Europe do not expect a situation of scarcity arises and take initiatives such as this area of Copenhagen which established an experimental food self-sufficiency.

Addendum (2) : In a letter sent to the PQ this spring, I had proposed to include a policy of food self-sufficiency (presented as a gesture of sovereignty ) in the party platform. It seems that my proposal was ignored at this point, but the subject is now news and it will not be possible to turn a deaf ear. Again, the PQ can be found behind the headlines.