Vigile.net - Jeffrey Simpson

No offence, Prince, but our ties to the monarchy should end

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-10-31T09:52:00Z

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada and sundry countries is 83 years old. God bless her, and long may she reign over us – after which Canada should cut its ties to the British monarchy. Her son and successor, and his wife, arrive on Monday for a coast-to-coast meet and greet with their future subjects, us. Think of it : (...) - consulter en ligne

Champlain's dream lives on in North America

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-10-24T15:35:00Z

Prof. Fischer, who knows Canada extremely well, believes that the “humanist” values of Champlain, and the respect for the values and traditions of the “other” has marked Canada. “Something right has happened here,” he says of Canada. - consulter en ligne

Tired rhetoric, and not much more

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-09-23T12:42:00Z

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news... dressed as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff pretend to sleep during a climate-change demonstration in Vancouver on Sept. 21, 2009. REUTERS *** Strip away the rhetoric from Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's recent speeches and two conclusions emerge. First, (...) - consulter en ligne

A teachable moment for Canada's universities

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-08-29T12:07:00Z

With universities across Canada gearing up for the fall term, they all face variations of the same problem : The increase in their faculty bill is unsustainable. Faculty salaries since 2000 have risen by more than a third, or about twice the consumer price index, and in most provinces, well above increases in basic operating grants from the (...) - consulter en ligne

The Conservatives are down and out in Quebec – and know it

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-03-25T12:53:00Z

Something quiet but profound has altered the Harper government's political strategy : Quebec doesn't cut it any more. From day one of the first Harper government, Quebec was the epicentre of Conservative dreams, plans and spending. Quebec had all those seats beckoning Conservative victories. A French kiss, one author described the (...) - consulter en ligne

Echoes of Israel in the graveyard of broken dreams

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-03-24T15:07:00Z

The larger lesson of this rather insignificant saga is how far the Harper government has moved to align Canada with Israel and its staunchest supporters. Canada is now the most "Israel, right or wrong" government in the world, except for the Israeli government itself. - consulter en ligne

The 'mother country' gives Quebeckers a wake-up call

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-02-04T11:47:00Z

la mémoire courte... quand c'est utile ! In case you missed it — and who could blame you if you had ? — Bloc Québécois delegates passed a resolution last weekend saying that the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, lost by the French in 1759, explains "even today our march toward sovereignty." Hello ? By this reasoning, the (...) - consulter en ligne

A national securities regulator ? Full speed ahead, Ottawa

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2009-01-14T17:20:00Z

A passport is a government-issued document that facilitates travel from one country to another. Within Canada, it's inconceivable that anyone would need a passport to move or do business inside the country. After all, we are one country. But in the fractured world of securities regulations, we have passports. And these passports, their (...) - consulter en ligne

Quebec's gain, Harper's pain and Ontario's drain

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-12-12T15:33:12Z

Digesting the results on election night, talking heads of Quebec's political class were discussing how re-elected Liberal Premier Jean Charest would need to make "gains" for the province in the next four years. The reason : the better than expected showing of the Parti Québécois, which, like its federal cousin the Bloc Québécois, will (...) - consulter en ligne

And the winner is ... the Bloc

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-12-05T17:42:07Z

The Bloc Québécois, in a strictly partisan sense, emerged as the clear and only winner from the political gamesmanship in Ottawa, a temporary halt to which came yesterday with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's purchase of time through prorogation. Canada, however, lost, as did the three federalist parties, each in different ways and for (...) - consulter en ligne

The Tories are doing what they must – but they don't like it

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-11-28T14:27:06Z

Since the Canadian election, the Harper government's approach to the economic crisis has had to change - further evidence of which was offered yesterday by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in his economic update. Of course, the opposition parties decried the federal government's failure to do more. But think back to the final days of (...) - consulter en ligne

How Harper's Quebec strategy blew up in his face

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-10-31T19:11:00Z

MONTREAL — Federalists are scratching their heads in Quebec. For the sixth election in a row, the Bloc Québécois won the largest number of seats in the province, sending to Ottawa refuseniks who do not partake in the governing of Canada and who want to break up the country but wish Quebec to take more from it before leaving. It (...) - consulter en ligne

Quebeckers' mental Bloc

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-10-18T13:11:00Z

It was all about him

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-10-14T12:38:00Z

Le guichet automatique

Jeffrey Simpson - www.cyberpresse.ca — 2008-10-12T13:55:00Z

La conclusion inévitable doit être qu'une majorité de Québécois francophones n'est pas intéressée à gouverner le Canada. Pour eux, le Canada n'est pas « leur » pays, mais plutôt une sorte de guichet automatique politique dont ils retirent de l'argent (...) - consulter en ligne

Et maintenant, en anglais

Jeffrey Simpson - www.cyberpresse.ca — 2008-10-02T16:08:00Z

En ce qui concerne Gilles Duceppe, le chef du Bloc québécois, sa présence dans le débat en anglais est une complète perte de temps et même une insulte étant donné que son parti ne présente aucun candidat hors du Québec. Presque personne dans l'auditoire anglophone au Canada n'est intéressé par ses plaintes prévisibles et inspiré (...) - consulter en ligne

Jamais satisfaits !

Jeffrey Simpson - www.cyberpresse.ca — 2008-09-21T10:18:00Z

Jean Charest et Stephen Harper. (Photo PC) Eh bien, ce n'était qu'une question de temps, n'est-ce pas ? Lors des élections de 2006, Stephen Harper, le chef conservateur, a accepté l'existence d'un « déséquilibre fiscal » entre Ottawa et les provinces. Il a promis de corriger le « problème » une fois pour (...) - consulter en ligne

Du pur calcul politique

Jeffrey Simpson - www.cyberpresse.ca — 2008-09-06T20:13:58Z

Les gouvernements minoritaires ont toujours plus de mal que les gouvernements majoritaires. Il reste que la plupart des propositions des conservateurs ont été adoptées et que le Parlement a bel et bien fonctionné. Tous les budgets conservateurs ont été adoptés. - consulter en ligne

The Ugly Canadian at global trade talks in Geneva

Jeffrey Simpson - Editorial - The Globe and Mail — 2008-07-30T19:03:00Z

Canada's negotiators at the last-gasp meetings in Geneva this week are taking a position to defend supply management that will in effect lead to failure at the talks. [...] Quebec is the greatest beneficiary of supply management, since 47 per cent of the quota for industrial milk used to make butter, cheese, yogurt and other dairy (...) - consulter en ligne

Dion joue son avenir

Jeffrey Simpson - La Presse — 2008-06-22T09:47:00Z

L'auteur est chroniqueur au Globe and Mail et coauteur du livre « Hot Air, Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge » (McLelland & Stewart, 2007). Les Québécois aiment bien se moquer du leader libéral fédéral Stéphane Dion pour toutes sortes de raisons. Mentionnez son nom en présence de gens polis et les Québécois se mettront (...) - consulter en ligne

La patience est à bout

Jeffrey Simpson - www.cyberpresse.ca — 2008-05-20T12:18:15Z

La Banque Toronto-Dominion estime qu'environ 20 milliards par année vont des poches des contribuables ontariens vers d'autres régions du Canada. Ce qui enrage l'Ontario, c'est de voir cet argent prendre la direction de la Nouvelle-Écosse pour réduire les taux d'imposition des entreprises sous celui de (...) - consulter en ligne

Whatever the fears, NAFTA's here to stay

Jeffrey Simpson - The Globe and Mail — 2008-04-22T14:00:00Z

Groups within each country gripe about the North American free-trade agreement, but Canada, Mexico and the United States are not going to tear up the treaty. But would they "renegotiate" it ? A lot of loose talk, driven by Democratic Party primaries, is spilling from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Both insist that, as president, they would (...) - consulter en ligne

Écoles « afrocentriques » : un projet mort-né ?

Jeffrey Simpson - La Presse — 2008-02-16T11:13:00Z

Le Québec vient de se lancer dans un nouveau débat sur la politique linguistique dans les écoles. Le français est-il menacé ? Quand devrait-on enseigner l'anglais ? Pendant combien de périodes chaque jour ? Qui a le droit d'aller dans une école autre que française ? À Toronto, c'est un débat tout différent qui fait rage, un (...) - consulter en ligne

Le vrai déséquilibre fiscal

Jeffrey Simpson - La Presse — 2007-11-29T14:56:39Z

Le véritable "déséquilibre fiscal" n'a rien à voir avec la disproportion fédérale-provinciale imaginée par le gouvernement québécois, mais tout à voir avec l'écart de revenus entre les municipalités et les deux autres ordres de gouvernement. Le "déséquilibre fiscal", inventé par le Québec et soutenu par les autres provinces, (...) - consulter en ligne

Le syndrome du micro

Jeffrey Simpson - La Presse — 2007-11-01T14:45:48Z

Y a-t-il jamais eu d'idée plus folle, plus xénophobe, que cette proposition de Pauline Marois à l'effet qu'aucune personne ne puisse devenir citoyen sans réussir un examen pour démontrer une connaissance du français ? - consulter en ligne