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I was more than willing to give Michelle Jean the benefit of the doubt at first but when Pierre Bourque can dig up a dozen stories a day with fun little tid-bits from her separatist past, it’s becoming very difficult to defend her. Let’s take a look at some of the highlights:

1. This video shows Michelle Jean, with six well known Quebec separatists, toasting to independence. To be fair, it’s not clear to whose independence they are toasting but given that they are six separatists, including one FLQ leader, I suspect it’s not to Basque independence or to the independence you get when your wife is out of town.

2. There is also this exchange from that same video:

During the scene, Front de Liberation du Quebec leader Pierre Vallieres says his book Negres blancs de l’Amerique was inspired by Cesaire’s writings on colonialism, explaining that being a “white nigger” means “being exploited, dominated, held up to contempt.”“And Quebec’s white niggers also have their black niggers more and more,” adds Jean, referring to Quebec’s growing black population. Seated next to Vallieres, Jean supports the separatist’s statement that Martinique “should not only go for independence, but towards a revolution, like Quebec also.”"In general, yes, independence is not something that is given – it is something that is taken,” Jean says.

Now, once again, notice how she doesn’t say that Quebec independence should be taken, merely that independence is something that is taken. Mind you, when it’s in response to a comment that Quebec independence should be take by an FLQ leader uhh.

3. There’s also this:

Ms. Jean is also featured joining in a toast to “independence.” She says, “C’est fini, les petis peuples!” (Which translates roughly as, “No more, dominated people!”) She also notes that there are “three choices for independence.” She says that in Haiti, the country of her birth, the choice was “painful.” In Martinque, it is that of “compromise” and in Quebec it is “on hold.”

Once again, I suppose it’s possible that no more dominated people is in reference to other people and that the fact that Quebec separatism is on hold is merely her analytical interpretation of the situation rather than wishful thinking that it will one day resume. But if I went to a white supremacist meeting and started making borderline racist comments, I think there would be just cause to assume the worst in those statements.

4. Her husband, Daniel Lafond, meanwhile, is also getting in trouble with this:

“So, a sovereign Quebec? An independent Quebec. Yes, I applaud with both hands and I promise to attend all the St-Jean Baptiste Day parades,” the cinematographer wrote.

I’ve got to admit, I’m salivating at the prospect of Scott Reid trying to explain this one.

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I’m only posting this because too few seem to think she comes at the current Duice coup with an open unbiased mind.

She does not.

Thank you Mr Martin.

But she is diverse who cares if she is good for Canada, we got rid of foolish ideas like that in the 60’s.

A storm is brewing and the person at the helm wants us to run aground.

in the more

Duiceppe plans to crack down on western farmers while Quebec is exempt from the wheat board!

We the people vs the Kanuckistani Entente.

Duiceppe plans to crack down on western farmers while Quebec is exempt from the wheat board!

Dion to give the Bloc and Lizzy May senate appointments oh he wants a billion for separatists too.