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Ruth Ellen Brosseau, M.P. If ever there was a person to cheer for, it may well be this young woman. Unexpectedly elected to Parliament as a member from Quebec for the NDP, Ms. Ruth Ellen Brosseau is demonstrating an alluring charm and honest self-assessment of her skills and challenges. I suspect that I won't share many of the same positions with her in the social and economic debate that lay ahead for Canada, but I wish the Member from Berthier-Maskinonge the best in undertaking to serve her constituents in her new career. ‘Vegas girl’ acknowledges her luck, embraces new challenges in Ottawa - The Globe and Mail

I've known a number of families who have chosen to Homeschool their children... and the kids did exceptionally well in their adult lives! I appreciate that there are cases where this has not been the case, but the same can be said about some schools I've dealt with over the years.  This is another step along the path of the State intruding into the rights of families and individuals and it should be opposed. I donated to the cause on the Home School Legal Defence Association of Canada website. I hope you might consider doing the same. You'll find the link within the SoCon story. Socon or Bust » Blog Archive » Quebec Gestapo Set To Pounce on Homeschooling Family

Working as I do within the beauty of the Ottawa Valley, I see many cars pass by from “la belle province” emblazoned with the phrase “je me souviens” imprinted on each license plate. These words are a testament to the desire of this francophone people to always “remember” the struggles of “la révolution tranquille” (the Quiet Revolution) which transformed the Quebec society into a modern secular state. Under  vigorous new secular leadership, and faced with a wholesale ecclesiastical retreat from public affairs, the francophone population of the past 50 years, seemingly all at once, turned a deaf ear to the voice of the Quebec Church within their culture. They've chosen instead to consider only the siren cry of the  secularist project and modern consumerism. The church's counsel is no longer welcome in the public square. This sudden shift rendered the Catholic Church  both impotent and irrelevant in the minds of the overwhelming majority of the Quebec population. In just on...

Oh la la... ma pauvre belle province! Quebec court overturns students’ access to English schools

With thanks to CA, I offer this report on the latest addition to the secularist formula as expressed in Quebec with the publication of the " Quebec Policy Against Homophobia ." Whereas I agree that it is right to accept that the State has the right to establish what will be considered legal or "normative" in its own curriculum and policies, it should not infringe on the right of the Church to argue for that which it believes to be moral. Morality is a priori within the very mandate of religion. There should not be subject to the limitations of State, beyond the consensual understandings of what is needed for civic health. To do more is an infringement of the freedom of religious expression. The State cannot tell the church what they may or may not teach as essential tenet of their faith, any more than the Church should have the right to dictate to the State how to manage affairs within its purview. The Church must be granted the right to argue for its understa...

Barbara Kay of the National Post writes on the new "religion" that has taken root in Quebec with the blessings of the provincial government. Quebec is the harbinger of what is to come in the rest of Canada unless we learn the lessons of the Church's mistakes in that province. Please pray that our Bishops will be willing to learn from their experience.

Here's is a message from a "player" of a winning "team" of the secularist camp. We ignore his assessment at our own peril. http://bluewavecanada.blogspot.com/2009/11/quebec-ex-minister-dumps-on-jihad.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BlueWave+%28BLUE+WAVE%29#