Talk:Politics of Canada/Archive 2

message: Any opposition to the moving of the constitutional crisis and quebec sovereignty paragraphs to their own articles (leaving a short summary here)? Same for the condensed history class under the History of national unity pre-Confederation subheading?
* History of the Quebec sovereignist movement
* Constitutional debate of Canada maybe?
Mathieugp 19:06, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I support that move. Tremblay 02:44, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved everything over. This page is now ready to adopt a structure similar to the other "Politics of ..." pages. Currently, it makes no sense and definitely needs to be expanded. Mathieugp 21:38, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving constitutional crisis section

message: For those familiar with the political history of politics, the list of Canadian political scandals is in need of lots of help. Thanks! --Alex S 18:51, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian political scandals 

message: I just noticed that there is no mention of the judicial independence of Canada when discussing independence whether here or elsewhere on wikipedia (e.g. Canada).  When I learned Canadian history, when speaking about Canadian independence, we always discussed four events: internal independence, BNA Act, 1867; external independence, Statute of Westminster, 1931; judicial independence, Supreme Court becoming court of last resort, 1949; constitutional independence, Canada Act, 1982.  Did others learn it differently or should it be included with the other three?  Telso 07:42, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Judicial Independence

message: I've added a bunch of political information on Canada's political functioning, including the current minority government, changes in federal funding to parties, past minority government (although if i want to get more specific i'll have to hit the books its been a while). I especially spent time on how the new federal funding formula is and or can be having an effect on Canadian Politics.
I've read through the talk page. Actually it was Jaques Parizeau that blamed the loss the 1995 on "money and ethnic voters". He made the comment in French from memory. The actual inference of the Jewish community was not made by him. I was watching when he said it (i'm a political hawk). He appeared to be possibly slightly drunk but not enough to justify the comment. It was widely condemned in Quebec by folk who want an independent Quebec and by Federalists. Nobody thought it was appropriate and it created a bit of a stirr. Quebec has over the years been quite clear that while they want independence they are not after getting rid of minorities and that minorities would have rights in an independent Quebec, so the wording was very unfortunate, and offensive to both sides.
As to the conflict on Question wording. I don't remeber the 1995 wording. The difficulty with the 1980 wording was that it asked if Quebecers wanted to be independent after an economic union had been reached with Canada. It was made clear that for absolute sovereignty there would be a second referendum. The difficulty lay in the fact that it was worded strangely (i could find it somewhere likely) and was long and complicated. And of course it didn't ask for sovereignty just the right to start negotiating it.
I did notice Wiki complaining about the length of the page from what i added. Also i'm not sure if i put in the the right "spots" on the page. But the information i added is not on the political culture page or on the Quebec page, and i think its on the basic side. I'm open to suggestions on how to hive it off though and yes i do expect it will get edited, although i put a couple of hours into the changes so hopefully not too badly!(lol) I've tried to keep POV out. I imagine its clear i'm in support of a minor party...i wasn't quite sure how to write it totally without reference...however i would be curious if there are guesses on NDP or Green Party (one of the ways i was trying to balance...i'm a member of one and someone i dated was a member of the other).
Also i don't have accents on my keyboard, or more likely they aren't printed on it and i don't know where they would appear if i asked the operating system to change the keyboard. Bloq Quebecois is therefore missing the accents.--Marcie 14:19, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Substantive Rewrite