Quebec a lot like Greece

[patm]

Let the storm ensue, if this is too "messy" feel free to lock. I thought I'd see if we could have a normal discussion about this...

The Coalition Avenir Quebec has promised more doctors. Meanwhile, Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois says that if her party is elected, tuition in Quebec will be free. She also wants 15,000 more daycare spaces.
The Liberal party under Premier Jean Charest says it will create a $1-billion fund so Quebec’s governments can make “strategic investments” in business (a.k.a., more corporate welfare). Also, Charest pledges to subsidize wages of Quebec workers older than age 55.

From 2005/06 (as far back as publicly available Finance department data goes) up to the present year, Quebec has received $56.7 billion, or 54 per cent of the $107.4 billion the federal government spent on equalization.

Quebec’s undergraduate tuition rates were just $2,519 this past year. That was 38 per cent of what an Ontario student paid ($6,640); 44 per cent of the cost to a student in Alberta ($5,662); 45 per cent of what a Saskatchewan student paid ($5,601); and 52 per cent of what a B.C. student shelled out ($4,852).
On physician ratios, in 2010, British Columbia and Alberta had 213 and 211 general physicians respectively per 100,000 people; the numbers for Ontario and Saskatchewan were 189 and 169. Meanwhile, the Quebec ratio was 224 general physicians per 100,000 people.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion...310/story.html

Pauline Marois has used the first Quebec election debate to repeatedly attack Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a hint of federal-provincial battles that might follow the Sept. 4 vote.
From her opening remarks, and throughout the debate Sunday night, the Parti Quebecois Leader highlighted her strategy of confrontation with the Harper Tories and claimed she would hold a sovereignty referendum “tomorrow morning,” if she felt she could.
“I will never let Stephen Harper choose for us,” Marois said Sunday, in a reminder of spats with the Tories over employment insurance, justice policy and transfer payments.
The PQ has said that if it’s elected it will seek a transfer of powers from Ottawa in areas like employment insurance and immigration policy. The party says it will use each refusal from the Tories to build its case that Quebec doesn’t belong in Canada.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/08...-of-round-one/

Someone pointed this out on another forum but does anyone see the resemblence between Greece and Quebec? A government that needs spending cuts but a population that is too selfish to allow them. I don't get it.

And well, why not highlight this gem again...

The party says it will use each refusal from the Tories to build its case that Quebec doesn’t belong in Canada.

[MexiQuebecois]

I'm staying out of this one.

[hamster]

Quebec is like a begger complaining that the free food is not good enough for them.

They will be worse off without Canada and they will soon realize this after they leave.

How are they going to replace the $8 billion in equalization payments?

The only thing they got going for them is Hydro-Quebec.