Sometimes when you think that all hope is lost in America there is a reminder
that it can be a decent place. Because it was a tide of moral outrage that made
Trump back down on family separations. It was even too much for his cowardly
Republicans and his chorus of sycophants. Now Trump only acted because he had no
choice. When he's backed into a corner he's not going to accept or confess that
he did anything wrong he's going to always blame somebody else. It was not
out of any sense of humanity, it was not like the Grinch whose heart grew three
sizes that day. Time magazine captured it perfectly
welcome to America, welcome to Trump's America. With the cruelty inflicted and
the message sent it's not the America I have come to know. And no one can quite
figure out it seems how the children will be reunited with their parents some
children may never find their parents again. Now Trump lied and lied about the
crisis saying he couldn't do anything about it. You have to take the children
away. Lie after lie to the point where truth doesn't matter. He launched an
all-out war against a free press and, like task during the Soviet era, Fox News
has become the propaganda tool for the Trump administration. He is more
comfortable with murderous dictators and oligarchs than men and women of goodwill
leading liberal democracies. He goes after Germany lying that letting in
migrants has caused the German crime rate to skyrocket and in fact crime in
Germany has gone down in the last year its lowest in 30 years. He uses the
language of hate. He describes the migrants as an infestation like
cockroaches where have we heard that before the Nazis described Jews as an
infestation. He dehumanizes people immigrants to him are animals now the
Trump agenda is about white supremacy and the echoes from the 1930s in Germany
grow louder every day. And you wonder who is next who do they come for next but at
least this week the moral center of America held.
It is indeed a long and winding road we live together we work together and
sometimes we even play together but we still really don't get each other. A new
survey by Leger for the Quebec Community Groups Network points out that
we do have a ways to go. Now even with strict language
legislation, only 40% of francophone say French is properly protected in Quebec
on the other hand eighty seven point five percent of Anglo say the French
language is well protected. And asked of Anglophone rights were well protected
only 17 percent of anglophones say they are while 72% of francophones say so.
That my friends is the Grand Canyon of language relations in Quebec. The problem
has always been that anglos in Quebec have been viewed with suspicion by many.
We aren't the enemy. I wonder if we will ever see a day when again for the
minority is not seen as a loss for the majority. J'en doute, but there is always
hope and those of us who call this home and stay will continue to fight for what
is rightfully ours. October 17th will be the day I suspect
there will be a high rate of sickness that day when Canada officially
legalizes pot. There are still a lot of questions about how this will all
happen. It is time as well for the government to take a look at expunging
criminal records for Canadians convicted of simple possession of marijuana. Now
pot rules will vary from province to province Quebec of course is one of the
provinces where only the nanny state will be able to dispense weed. And no
homegrown here because well that would cut into revenues for the SQDC the
Societe Quebecoise du Cannabis just what we need here another societe. A
well Quebec knows best. one verra, on verra indeed. I'm Barry Wilson you can follow
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now take a bit of a summer break and we'll be back soon.
I look forward to resuming the conversation.
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