A fight against Amazon becomes a state matter in Quebec

Post by Hokusai » Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

schnischna wrote: post #77

I don't understand that kind of thing: the government is presumably elected by the people. Why would the people want the government to fight a business that they could voluntarily avoid, without any government intervention whatsoever? I mean the government represents what the people want. The people apparently want to buy at local businesses, rather than at Amazon. Why don't they simply do it? Or if they actually DO…

Post by jefft255 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 12:14 AM UTC

seszett wrote: post #55

jefft255 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat. Well... This reads to me like you're saying something more.

Well I was saying that they don't seem to need bill 101, since you were saying that bill 101 was created to protect the only French speaking group in America. Québec is not the only French speaking group in America and bill 101 is only a Québec law, that's what I wanted to say. Maybe that wasn't clear.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 12:43 AM UTC

seszett wrote: post #30

belval wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really is not the bad, most of the time when there is actual abuse there is a social outrage and they back off. Bill 101 was created to protect the only French-speaking group in America. It's by definition a lesser evil to protect French from declining and it is visibly not enough since the percentage of French speaker across the province is going down.

There are quite a few other French-speaking places in America and most of them are (or see themselves) under no cultural threat. Bill 101 was only created by the Quebecers for themselves, not by some entity above them in order to protect them.

Post by solitus » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:50 AM UTC

aurizon wrote: post #54

Quebec corruption in almost all organized labour adds a layer of cost to all Quebeckers. Then the high taxes and enourmously overpaid civil serpents adds another. Where does the $$ come from to cover this? There are two major revenue sourcesL; One is the Canadian federal revenue sharing with Quebec, called Equalization ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equalization_payments_in_Canad... ). All Canadians subsidize Quebec…

Post by thbr99 » Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 1:53 AM UTC

jefft255 wrote: post #81

thbr99 wrote: post #72

I would never buy anything from this sort of site especially if done by the Québec government. They should try to fix their Senior Home Covid-19 situation due to lack of healthcare workers because of their absurd healthcare system rules unlike rest of Canada. The premier of Quebec CAQ govt. is populist and wants to throw some raw meat to his voter base. The next one will be immigrant bashing.

These two issues are orthogonal. But thank you for taking the time to do your usual Québec bashing which you always seem to love doing when you get the chance.