The fact that people in English-speaking Canada seem to think that they can overlook anything done by the Quebecois has got to end immediately.
Years ago when the Rodrigue Biron, Minister of Industries in the pequiste government Rene Levesque gave a $2-million interest free loan to his brother Pierre, who own a small firm in Comte Lotbinière, Quebec, the liberal opposition rose in the Quebec parliament (The pseudo National Assembly) and accused the Levesque government of nepotism. Rene Levesque replied that it was not nepotism, because he had declared that a brother was no longer a relative.
Now, we have the pequiste leader one Andre Boisclair referring to oriental students as les yeux brides in Joual or slant eyed in English. Claiming that the Joual (French patois) meaning is quite different from the English meaning, and since he has using this expression- in Joual- for years, he had said nothing wrong. I totally agree with Andre Boisclair. Because, I too have been using an expression for years. I simply refer to the Quebecois or canadien as Metis/Metisse, which is a lot closer to their real background, and I find absolutely nothing wrong with it either. So, on that score we have at the very least agreed.
What surprised me was the recent article put out by the Universite de Montreal, entitled: "French Canada's Genealogy Data." But first they are attempting to plug the gaps in historical records dating back to the first forty or fifty families from France that left Normandie for New France in the 1600s. The mythical claim of these people to having links with 5,500 of the 10,000 who came over from 1620 - 1799, is a barefaced lie. The flaw is this. New France was ceded to Great Britain by France on February 10, 1763, by the Treaty of Versailles, so how was there any French immigration from 1763 to 1799? Would Britain, which had changed the name of the territory from New France to Quebec, permitted such immigration? That statement is certainly not true. So, this study began with serious flaws, and other omissions. Then we have intermarriage between British soldiers and canadiennes, mostly the offspring of the Habitants.
If we come to the time-line of the 1840s, during the Potato Famine in Ireland, many families immigrated to Canada. Quite a few of the parents died on the voyage over of Typhus and other ailments. Their children were now orphans, which the Catholic Church in Lower Canada put up for adoption to canadien families. But there was a proviso, that these orphaned Irish children were to adopt French-sounding names. Moran became Morin; Reilly became Riel, Rhiel or Rehel; Burke became Bourque and so forth. The Catholic priests in Lower Canada demanded that these children even change their Christian names, to French-sounding Christian names. So how can the demographer Bertrand Desjardins, have done any such study when these glaring facts prove his study to be seriously inaccurate?
A major omission is the North American Indian blood that was infused into les canadien by intermarriage over the centuries. Consider also the criminals and prostitutes that were sent over by the king of France to New France as settlers. Are these to be omitted because, the Quebecois or canadien do not want this side of their family history exposed as really being a Metis/Metisse people, and not European by their interbreeding? So, a whole chapter regarding the intermarriage between North American Indians and the French has been conveniently left out to suit the pequiste rendition of history, which makes it almost like a page out the annals of Nazi Germany of the 1930s. This is if anything is a blatant form of racism coming from a people of mixed-blood, who have the gall to use it. Look at the Levesque's, the Morin's, the Riel's, the Jacques', the Lessard's etc. and note their North American Indian features. If a Quebecois/Quebecoise or canadien/canadienne looks in a mirror, what will they see in the reflection?
They certainly will not see a Frenchman or woman, but a person with North American Indian features, and naught else. So one sees the Quebecois or canadien as fabulists, because they have avoided reality for over two centuries, by falsely claiming to be French and white, when in fact they are neither French nor white. When the summer comes, these soi-disant French or French-Canadien people can crawl back to the Tepees and also try to remember whom their American Indian forebears were, and their culture, which is very similar to that of the Quebecois or canadien. But, since these people suffer from amnesia, selective amnesia that is, they will never permit the truth to out.
