Separatist Cat Fight! Meow! Hiss!

Nothing delights me more than watching former PQ Premiers scratch and claw at each other. Especially when one of them is (by jove!) Mr. Monopoly himself, Blacques Jacques Parizeau. Truly he is the most loathsome of them all.

People outside Canada won’t have the pleasure of being familiar with oozing Fat Jacques but, believe me, he lifts snobbism to a new level. In a nutshell, this is a French Canadian, educated at the London School of Economics, who speaks perfect English, like an Englishman. I ask, does anybody in the English upper-class still use the expression “by jove”? Well Jacques does, and he’s not trying to be funny when he says it, which is precisely what makes him so laughable.

So when he said, regarding Lucien Bouchard’s latest criticism of us lazy-ass Quebecois, that (translated quote): “Once again the Quebecois have disappointed Mr. Bouchard. Once again. It is a shame” it’s impossible for me to reproduce the insufferable tone of his “ironic” comments.

Bouchard responded that Mr. Monopoly himself had once disappointed Bouchard, referring to tipsy Jacques’s infamous drunken xenophobic speech back in 1995. heh heh heh.

Bouchard is Bouchard, an opportunist all the way. A federalist when it suited his career, and a separatist when that later suited his career. We all know where he stands: this being, where it most serves him at any given time in his life. Now his role is to browbeat us about our bad work habits. There must be prestige in this for him somehow.