Con arguments
Government of Canada
From United Empire, to United Dominion, to United Canada.
Denying the very existence of the Québec nation and financing the vision of a Unitary Canada inside Québec since 1867...
- The Constitutional File and the Unity File
- Who Were the Fathers of Confederation?
- Canadian Unity Council
- Canadian Heritage
- The Centre for Research and Information on Canada
- Canadian Unity
- Great Canadian Questions
- The Council of Canadians
- Operation Dialogue
Québec Bashing
Ignorance is Bliss?
Favorite targets
- PQ Leaders René Lévesque, Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard, Bernard Landry
- Free thinker and social democrat Yves Michaud
- Conservative Catholic nationalist Lionel Groulx
- Quebec's national symbols, its flag, its national holiday
- Quebec's intitutions, its representative democracy, its language policy, its immigration policy, its economic policy
- Quebec's worker movement, its unions, its solidarity
Techniques
Political warfare in its modern incarnation...
- Demonization
- argument from repetition (argumentum ad nauseam)
- Appeal to fear (argumentum in terrorem)
- false dilemma
- Straw man
- Appeal to authority (argumentum ad verecundiam)
- Appeal to the majority (Argumentum ad populum)
- Personal attack (argumentum ad personam)
- False analogy
- False attribution
- Faulty generalization
- Fallacy of the single cause
- Red herring
- Etc.
Useful Patriots
- Diane Francis
- Howard Galganov
- Bill Johnson
- Mordecai Richler
Examples
- Quebec Liberated Itself Into a Backwater by James P. Pinkerton in Newsday, July 31, 2001
- Quebec Exposed
- Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport
- Wednesday-Night.com - Separatist Notes
- Fighting Quebec Separatism
- The St-Jean-Baptiste parade
- Canada is a Real Country!
- Quebecistan, Delisle, Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!, Jane Wong
Late denunciation
- "Some Racist Slips about Quebec in English Canada Between 1995 and 1998" by Maryse Potvin in Canadian Ethnic Studies, volume XXXII, issue 2, 2000, pages 1-26
- Bashing Québec fashionable in anglo media, by Michel David, The Gazette, Friday 21 April 2000
- Oh Canada, Oh Quebec, Oh Richler, Globe & Mail, June 26, 2002
- The Black Book of English Canada, by Normand Lester, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 2002, 296 pages ISBN 077102259X
- Jean Charest, Stephen Harper
Orangeism
Yes, that thing still exists...
- British America Orangeism
- Orangenet.org: Canada
- Canadian Orange Historical Site
- Irish Secret Societies in Mid-Nineteenth Century Rural Quebec
- Orangeism - The Canadian Scene A Brief Historical Sketch
- The Daily Orange: Quebec Secedes from Planet Earth *
- = Putting aside the superiority complex issue and the grammatically incorrect French, we find this one quite funny. ;-)