Well, isn’t it ironic that while you have stated that you won’t sit at the same table with the student organization La CLASSE because the latter supposedly does not respect the values of your Quebec Liberal government, you did, in fact, sit at a table of 15 to 20 people,
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From Orangutan: Dear English-speaking Canadians,
Please find, below, a handful of links to the few reports in English that fairly portray the current situation in Quebec concerning protests against proposed post-secondary education tuition hikes. Unfortunately, the English-language press has not done a stellar job in reporting the complexity of the key issues, something that is
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: To Line Beauchamp,
What if La CLASSE were a Jewish group, or a Hindu group, or a Buddhist group, or a Muslim group, or in other words, a group whose beliefs you don’t follow, but a group that nonetheless plays an important role in Quebec society? Would you still refuse to negotiate? In
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear CUNY and SUNY students,
Thank you, students at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the State University of New York (SUNY) for writing a beautiful open letter of support of the student strike in Quebec. I am elated that three of you from Brooklyn College visited Montreal over spring break to understand
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Psst Jean Charest,
Did you know that according to a recent study on access to information conducted by Canada’s newspaper industry Quebec was deemed to be “the most secretive” province in Canada? Mr. Charest, as the Quebec Federation of Journalists requests, please take a page out of U.S. President Barack Obama’s playbook and
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Cher Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois et al.,
Thank you for displaying a rare from of patience and reason in the face of rhetorical manipulations and illogical accusations from lawyer, political scientist, and journalist Christian Dufour during a debate Tuesday on the Denis Lévesque show. Mr. Nadeau-Dubois, one can easily grasp your intelligence and clarity of thought compared
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Bonjour Jean Charest,
You sure did blow off some smoke and pull out some mirrors Monday when you denounced the Coalition large de l’association pour une solidarite syndicale etudiante (CLASSE) for refusing to condemn the vandalism and social disruptions in Montreal. Last I checked, violence is not part of the CLASSE’s mandate, obviously.
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Bonjour Line Beauchamp,
Yet again, you continue to make strange political decisions. First, on Sunday afternoon, you gave media outlets less than an hour’s notice of a press conference that you wanted to hold. Next, at the press conference, you proposed to meet with certain, but not all, Quebec student federations. And then,
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Thomas Mulcair and Bob Rae,
Could both of you (and your NDP and Liberal parties, respectively), please stop trading insults? I believe many Canadians would appreciate you more if you came together to fight the current Conservative government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The more you argue, Messrs. Mulcair and Rae, the more power
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Peter MacKay,
In this video, Rex Murphy nicely summarizes the current folly of the Canadian federal government, but I still can’t figure out who you really are, Mr. MacKay. I checked Wikipedia, and I know that you serve as Minister of National Defence. I know that you are a Libra, born in
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Line Beauchamp,
Why would you offer a proposal to Quebec students that would place them in further debt, and then claim that you knew the students would reject the proposal? Is that not a waste of time, especially when one considers that the student boycott is costing taxpayers $104,000 an hour (or
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Line Beauchamp and Jean Charest,
Why do you both insist that Quebec tuition fees must increase to keep the quality of education at expected standards? This premise is simply incorrect. My readings, for example, have taught me that although the price of attending a post-secondary institution in the United States has risen over the past
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Line Beauchamp,
Doesn’t it bother you, as a woman who is the Quebec Minister of Education, that given that women still do not earn the same salaries as men, raising tuition fees means that women will pay more for their education now and in the decades it takes them to pay back
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper,
Why have you systematically misled the Canadian people about the costs of purchasing flying machines?
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Premier Jean Charest,
Here are some words of advice. You may be making the biggest career mistake of your life by ignoring the hundreds of thousands of protesting students in your Canadian province of Quebec. From what I have read, you are currently the most unpopular provincial leader in Canada, and your Liberal party
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Asma al-Assad,
As first lady of Syria, do you approve of your country’s continual shelling of the city of Homs, your father’s hometown? If so, I don’t understand why.
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Twitter Humans and Other Strangers,
I am happy to announce that I am now on the human social network known as the Twitter, which incidentally is celebrating its 6th birthday (over 2000 sunrises and sunsets) today! I would very much like if you followed me here: @fromorangutan. This might just be the beginning of a beautiful
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear David Johnston, Governor General of Canada,
Would you please appoint a Royal Commission to investigate Canada’s ever widening election fraud scandal? Rick Mercer and millions of other Canadians would be very pleased if you did.
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump,
(Credit: huntinglegends.com) Why do you justify killing big game animals on safari by calling yourselves hunters and by claiming that the kill can feed a village for a month? You are not hunters, boys. You role play as hunters. You have no idea what it is to truly live in
Continue readingFrom Orangutan: Dear Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich,
Your tone is more convincing than your words.
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