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Quebec double standard rankles

Dear Editor:

During the last two weeks I
have read, or have seen on TV, at
least five references to the burning
of a Quebec flag by a Brockville
man. Not once have I seen a
reminder of tha: disgusting scene,
I believe during the St. Jean Bap-
liste parade, of a young man us-
ing the Canadian flag to wipe hi
backside. :

Whereas the Brockville man has
apologized, the Reform party has
expelled him from its party, and
countless politicians, columnists,
editors, TV commentators, etc.,
have erupted in righteous indigna-
tion, from Quebec there has been
not one single expression of regret
for a worse incident. Moreoever,
not one of these ‘‘authorities’’
that supposedly speak for Canada

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have cited this example to il-
lustrate the extremities of intoler-
ance that exist in Quebec.

This is just one instance of the
double standard that exists in the
media, and amongst politicians,
when commenting on the
Quebec/Canada situation.

tt is as though the current con-
stitutional controversy is somehow
all Canada’s fault. ignored com-
pletely is the fact that it is Quebec
that has initiated the blackmail of
separatism. It is Quebec that im-
plemented Bills 101 and 178 and
tefuses to modify them.

The impression from reading
columnists’ comments, and from
all the politicians, is that English
Canada is being completely unrea-
sonable in even pointing out that
they are being blackmailed, let

Hone F that’ not

what they mean by :
reaching out te Quebec. y

alone in resisting it

The federal peliticians 1 can
understand. Tiiey are obsessed
with the Quebec vote and couldn't
care less about the rest of Canada.
But editors? Columnists? Provin-
cial politicians? Why don’t they
point out that there are two sides
to the controversy?

Do they think that the ordinary
Canadian cannot make a reasoned
decision when presented with all
the arguments?

Only one authority has spoken
out critically about the inequities
in Quebec, and he has been
vilified into silence.
Trudeau, where are you when we
need you?

P.G. Hughes
West Vancouver

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