PQ MNA wants flag in every classroom
A Parti québécois MNA is proposing mandating a Quebec flag in every classroom.
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Uatu 09:51 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
A lot easier than getting a family doctor for everyone, I guess lol
Ian 10:51 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Yeah, always staying right on top of those high-priority issues haha
Tangentially related, I grew up in Ontario and in public school we had to sing “O Canada” every morning before classes, and in both English and French at the beginning of school assemblies. Meanwhile here the only way kids know the national anthem is if they watch hockey. Maybe the kids could sing “Mon Pays” to properly instill “national” pride.
Uatu 11:45 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Actually a great place for it would be the ER. A reminder of who’s running the system and you’ve got a loooong time to bask in its glorious national significance. lol
Ephraim 12:01 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Get rid of the cross on the flag and we’ll talk.
Ian 16:23 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Well the blue stands for the virgin mary so there’s just a white flag if you get rid of that.
Ephraim 17:22 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
I’m okay with that 😀
But isn’t the white only flag for France? 😀 (Ducking and running)
Ian 17:55 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Oh don’t give France the credit of having “surrendered”, Pétain and many others in Vichy France were only too eager to collaborate with fascists. There is some truth that Adrien Arcand and his racist, fascist ilk influenced the Quebec independence movement that helped inform the development of the flag, but of course what went on in France was sociopolitically different from what was going on chez nous.
Kate 21:23 on 2024-06-01 Permalink
Ephraim, France used a pure white flag during the Bourbon Restoration between 1815 and 1830. But this predated the formalization of a white flag to signal surrender, which happened in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. The white stripe in the French tricolore derives from the white flag of the Bourbons.
(I knew that listening to British panel shows would come in handy sooner or later.)
Ian 04:31 on 2024-06-02 Permalink
Oh neat, i was wondering about the Bourbon connection. Thanks!
dhomas 14:12 on 2024-06-03 Permalink
My kids’ EMSB grade school played the Canadian national anthem every morning until 2020. When school resumed after COVID, the anthem was no longer heard.
Ian 17:38 on 2024-06-03 Permalink
Interesting, I wonder if it’s a principal’s choice. I thought it might be the board.