canada???

well... gilles duceppe thinks, among other staggeringly incorrect things, that it's a good idea to create a quebec hockey team.
the quebec national hockey team. roll this around on your tongue for a minute... note the grotesquely unsavory flavor of pride, arrogance, and selfishness.
team canada has recently done great things in hockey. it would be a pity to smear that greatness, that co-operation, the unity that helped us get to the pinacle of international hockey, by splitting our team up just so quebec can inflate their egos a little more.
the really incomprehensible thing about all of this is that, despite wanting to have a team of their very own for international competition, their NHL franchise can still be called, you guessed it, the Montreal Canadians.
wow.
we have come to expect such hypocrisy from quebec and the bloc-heads for some time now, wanting their own country but our money, wanting their own rules but our system. this is really just another sad symptom of their inablilty to grow up.
sigh.
i'll miss international hockey, if it goes.
but i won't miss quebec.

so hey, let's give them what they want... emancipation. total. complete. my guess is, it'd be much like letting an 8 year old who thinks he knows everything have his own life for a while. making rent, paying bills, getting a job, buying food and clothing, cooking. it'd blow up in his face, and then he'd learn a lesson. maybe quebec needs to learn the same one.
maybe.