Martial law will be declared in Quebec?
Some of the comments are an exemple of how much English Canada is already sold to the NEW WORLD ORDER. Pathetic the hate they have against French Québécois.
Québec is the example to follow...you must resist...
The federalist NWO proponent and Liberal leader in Québec; John James Charest must be exposed for what he is... a new world order puppet.
What are the odds that martial law will be declared in Quebec? A sport-gambling site says 5.5 to 1
The Canadian Press May 23, 2012 – 4:34 PM ET
Brett Gundlock/ REUTERS
Quebec police detain student protesters.
MONTREAL — A sports-gambling site has begun taking bets on potential outcomes of Quebec’s student strike.
The site sets odds for when the strike will end; whether there will be a referendum on tuition hikes; how many fines will be levied against the most hardline student group; and whether the government will back down.
It even sets odds on whether martial law will be declared in Quebec by the end of 2012. Just for the record, those odds are pegged at 5.5 to 1.
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The Quebec-based site predicts even chances of the strike ending by September, and also sets 50-50 odds on the Quebec government amending or repealing its controversial emergency legislation, Bill 78.
Setting odds over which celebrity might be next to wear the iconic red protest square, U.S. filmmaker Michael Moore comes in first at 7 to 1. There are slimmer odds of it being worn by famous hockey players, Star Trek legend William Shatner, singers Madonna and Leonard Cohen, and hockey pundit Don Cherry.
But the celebrity seen as least likely to wear the red square? In that last spot, just after Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, is Prime Minister Stephen Harper — at 201-to-1 odds.
The Sports Interaction site is based in the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal.
Posted in: Canada Tags: Bill 78, Pierre Curzi, Quebec student strike, Tuition protests
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Cutlan 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Yes, we expect to collect CPP and OAS if we need it. We have also paid federal and provincial income taxes, EI, property taxes for thirty or forty years. We saved and bought houses when interest rates were 14 % and higher. Many of you have paid little or nothing at all for anything yet. Take a look at the real world and see what tuition rates are for other Provinces and States and consider yourselves very fortunate even if you have a bump in tuition rates. Seven dollar day care? 35 years ago when our children were small we would have had to pay nearly 400 a month for day care for two little ones. So we made other arrangements . No one subsidized us. One is entitled to nothing in the real world. Don't expect people to continue to do so. Earn your keep and grow up S.V.P.
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Wulf46 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
The Army should have been sent in long ago to end this nonsense.
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Le Coq Sportif 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
What are the odds that National Post will turn a profit this year? 13-1?
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EricShipley 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
The odds are zero because martial law doesn't exist in Canada. Even when the War Measures Act was still around it didn't qualify as martial law since since people arrested under it weren't subject to military law.
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66Scorpio 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
The hell with it. They probably have a dozen militia regiments in the Montreal area. Activate them this weekend, task them with aid to the civil power. Arrest 10,000 people if they have to in order to restore order and clear the streets.Technically, no, it isn't "martial law" but if there are not enough cops on the ground then supplement them with our citizen soldiers to break the spine of this lawless serpent.
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udhhdyettss 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Someone today was being interviewd on CBC news...someone from one of those committiees for holding hands, or whatever at Montreal City Hall...Big Fat bucks Committee like all the rest. He said not to worry, the Jazz Fest, the Laugh Fest, tyhe racing cars, everything is organised, no worries at all...oh my, could you ever here the fear in his voice.
Buddy, you got 100,000 crazy kids on the streets that means there are NO parking spots from tyhe West Island on it, the buses are blocked, the underground is jammed, the taxis are refusing to go downtown...hey...I am gonna bet $100 that Marshall Law is declared this year.Easy money, if the Mohawks will pay up.
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jezbel42 3 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Canadians are angry for so many reasons. Destroying others property is really no answer. The Quebec students have defeated the purpose of their protest. Mob mentality is counter productive. I know their frustration is because, they feel their concerns are ignored by the government.
There is anger regarding, Canadians can save up to $7,000 per year, by shopping in the U.S. The citizens who live too far from the U.S. have to cut down on groceries. Seniors, the poor, and low income family's, are having to depend on food banks. Even people who would have never thought they would never to rely on charity to eat, find they have to. There is actually hunger in the far north.
Harper turns a blind eye on price gouging. Canadians pay more for their own products, than other country's do. There is the robo-call election fraud. Andrew Prescott says he shouldn't be held responsible, as he was ordered to do the calls. Harper is trying to quash the robo-call investigation. That is rather a dead give-a-way.
There is the Etioboke Center election, that was null and void ruled by the court. Harper will appeal. He is appointing two Conservative judges, people are waiting...
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Dangler 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
dude, you're drunk. There hasn't been a Prime Minister on record with the balls that Harper has. He's implemented an increase in the amount of goods that can be brought back from the US, engaged in trade agreements, pushed for entry in to the Pacific Rim trade alliance, lowered the GST, gone after the ridiculous Wheat Board and is poised to dismantle the outdated Milk monopoly. There hasn't been a head of state in this country with a more pro business and pro consumer approach then Harper. Use you brain, if you're being gouged, buy your products from US retailer online and send a message to the Canadian retailers that are ripping you off.
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WCF 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
There is no talking to an undereducated commie supporter like this guy. Harper is the best PM we've ever had. The only one's that don't agree are those who are too lazy to work, and those in the unions that aren't getting the 10% pay raise they are use to getting under the spineless and corrupt Liberals....
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RH6 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
A gambling site!
What a nice picture of moral values!
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Elitest Pig 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
The Quebec masses are loose cannons for the Government. Unlike their backwater mentally challenged redneck counterparts located mainly throughout the rest of Canada, Quebecers actually have a pretty good idea as to how democracies should function.
Quebecers political savvy is bad news for the Government, since they rely on the ignoramuses in society to prop them up. This dumbing down agenda is one of the main reasons why Governments prefer to make higher education less and less accessible to the masses through higher tuition rates.
So while the rest of Canada is honing up on their insults, Quebecers are honing up on exposing the biggest criminals in society.
As Mahatma Gandhi stated, "action expresses priorities". It also seems to express character.
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Midships 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Great satire piece! LOL
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Toobored 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Too many people have lost perspective. If you're not interested in completing the year that you theoretically paid for, then leave school. Why ruin it for those who actually want to be in school and want to continue with their education. There are no sane points to be made here, at this juncture. Just a bunch of hooligans and miscreants looking to make trouble. These protests smack of the same anarchist riots seen at the G8. Funny how so many of those protesters came from Quebec. There is no free ride in this economy. Glad to see these protesters making such a positive contribution to help out. There is no way this approach goes anywhere. Pretty good plan so far.
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PatCam 7 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
If things proceed over the summer as the leader of the pack (Nadeau) states, then I would not be surprised at all if we don't see something on the scale of the FLQ crisis with troops in the street.
In my opinion, the troops would better be exposed to the Taliban then the rabble walking the streets in Montreal. Since so many of the non-student population seem to be backing them, let them tear the place down to the ground with not a thin dime of Federal money to clean up their mess. Sometimes you have to hit bottom before you start using the brain God gave you.
My sentiments and sympathy are with Mr. Charest all the way.
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Wayne Hitchcock 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Once the r e t a r d s burn Montreal to the ground, they'll complain the government didn't stop them.
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Dangler 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
And they'll demand that Alberta write them a cheque to pay for the clean up, but not before they insult them for the petrol industry.
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fairisfair 2 comments collapsed Collapse Expand
Remember the outcry by Baby Boomers over the federal government’s recent increase of the eligibility age for OAS. Just as Baby Boomers expected to be able to retire at 65, students in Quebec expected to pay around $3,000 for tuition. There was an implicit social contract between the governments and the citizens that was breached when these plans to revised.
Maybe there’s a lesson here for the students …..Beside protests they should also remember the ballot box!!!
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Avatar22 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
My memory is a little fuzzy on that one. But correct me if I'm wrong: no grannies and grandpas were flooding the streets smashing shop windows and throwing rocks at riot police...
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NathanJF 1 comment collapsed Collapse Expand
Not surprised you'd prefer give away 10Billion to Afghans who we all know have a corrupt gov.not to mention losing over 150 of our soldiers and then pledging 100Million per year more to be able to walk out of this mess. Because this is exactly the redneck way of life. Give away to strangers who rip you off instead of getting better education and health care for your own people in this country ! At least the students in Montreal will be able to use it (a brain that is).
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Pour les lâches, la liberté est toujours extrémiste. (Pierre Falardeau)
[For the cowards freedom is for the extremist.]
Re: Martial law will be declared in Quebec?
Some police officers have no sense of humour.
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher
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