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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:52 AM
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Royal newlyweds called 'parasites' by Que. MNA (Quebec National Assembly member)
Source: CBC News

Quebec Solidaire MNA Amir Khadir is not pleased the royal newlyweds will be visiting Montreal and Quebec City during their upcoming nine-day Canadian tour.

Khadir referred to the royals as "parasites" in an interview with the Journal de Québec newspaper.

"What a waste of public money. All this to welcome those parasites," Khadir is quoted as saying in the article.

A portion of the trip's cost will be covered by Quebec taxpayers.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2011/05/31/quebec-protests-royals-khadir.html
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 11:56 AM
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1. The French are so strict with royalty.
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 04:15 PM
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8. Though he's not French in any way
Born in Tehran, his family moved to Canada when he was ten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Khadir
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 05:47 PM
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9. Taken care of by the transubstantiation of citizenship.
By which all Americans came over on the Mayflower AND disembarked on Ellis Island.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:25 AM
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18. Isn't Quebec, where he's been since age 10, considered French Canadian?
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 10:42 AM
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23. But it's not French; in the same way that the USA is not British
Quebec has never been part of a republic - the British took it from the French when both were still monarchies; Iran was a monarchy when he left it. His whole life, and that of probably all of his ancestors for several generations, has been under a monarchy, and he has no apparent French ancestry at all. The attitude of the French to monarchs is as relevant for him as, say, the English attitude to monarchy is for Henry Kissinger.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:01 PM
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2. It's exactly what they are, you know.
Even though they'll sweat their lives away doing national PR, they are parasites living on the backs of the workers.

I'm a capitalist parasite these days, but I don't have much choice since my body was wrecked by 25 years in nursing.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:09 PM
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3. Khadir
tends to forget that his pathetic little party is pretty much a parasite on the rest of the Province but what the hell, he probably thinks he's worth it.
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Lost-in-FL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 12:39 PM
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4. +1,
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:34 AM
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19. Seems as though he's been in a few parties and, in December 2010, was Quebec's most popular pol.
Edited on Wed Jun-01-11 06:45 AM by No Elephants
"In 2008, Khadir won the seat and became the first Québec Solidaire candidate elected. He garnered 39% of the vote. During that campaign, Khadir received the endorsement of Robert Perreault, a former PQ cabinet member who represented the district from 1994 to 2000.<9>

A poll conducted for the newspapers Le Devoir and The Montreal Gazette in early December, 2010, established that Khadir was the most popular politician in Québec, with an approval rating of 45%."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Khadir

:shrug:
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Billy Burnett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:14 PM
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5. Better be careful or the dictator of Canada, Elizabeth Windsor, will shut Canada down.
Edited on Tue May-31-11 02:14 PM by Billy Burnett
It has happened before, and it can happen again.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 02:58 PM
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6. Queen Elizabeth shut Canada down?
When did this happen?
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cayanne Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 03:34 PM
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7. Billy my old friend
Elizabeth can't shut down Canada, she's just a figurehead right? What power does she have now?

I'm still hoping to see ya in Cuba one of these days.
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Billy Burnett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 01:16 PM
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24. She can prorogue the parliament.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prorogation_in_Canada#History

It is the Canadian monarch's prerogative to prorogue the legislatures, though this is usually done for the federal parliament by the sovereign's representative therein, the Governor General of Canada, and always for the provincial parliaments by the monarch's representatives in those areas, the lieutenant governors.


Foreign monarchy (dictatorship) oversight of the parliament still exists.
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individual rights Donating Member (85 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:17 PM
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10. I thought a parasite had to be of a different species.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:49 PM
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15. i would say the majority of vertebrate parasites are h. sapiens
the overwhelming majority of parasites that i've met have been of the human species so there goes that theory

these folk ARE parasites, let's not quibble and pretend we don't know what he's talking about just because he's tacky

you can believe that some are born to be royals or you can believe that all are created equal, but you can't believe BOTH

i do not accept that someone is royal and better than me just because he choose his parents wisely nor do i believe that someone is royal and better than me because she married somebody who thinks he's better than me...fame and money by injection!
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:51 AM
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20. Thanks to muriel_volestrangler , I read his wiki. He doesn't seem tacky to me.
Edited on Wed Jun-01-11 06:52 AM by No Elephants
Unusually candid for a politician, maybe. Tacky, not so much.
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enki23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:25 PM
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11. well, yeah. obviously.
..
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 06:48 PM
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12. Such a controversial view... for DU, anyway.
This is one case of "Captain Obvious" I fully approve, since it's taboo.
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:36 PM
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13. Rude.
But accurate.
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pitohui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-31-11 09:45 PM
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14. well it's rude but it's what we were all thinking
Edited on Tue May-31-11 09:46 PM by pitohui
i don't understand why the people of england put up with these people who get to be billionaires just for being born or just for getting married but as long as they're in their own country, OK

but fact is they ARE parasites and when they come to another country expecting to be considered "royalty," that's just ugly, at least to those of us who believe not in royalty but rather in equality

why should quebec taxpayers pay for somebody's travel, just because they call themselves a prince or a princess? it is a waste of public money

and it offends the entire concept that ALL are equal
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 04:44 AM
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17. They're the monarchy of Canada too
Canada is free to hold a referendum to remove the monarchy at any time; Australia had one a few years ago, but it didn't pass. When people have to decide, a lot go with the devil they know (a parasitic family) rather than the other examples they fear - slimy politicians (eg Bush, next door to Canada).
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 06:57 AM
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21. Yes, but they don't bring the tourist revenues to Canada that they bring to the UK. Any reason
Edited on Wed Jun-01-11 07:08 AM by No Elephants
they could not pay their own travel expenses, though? That's the issue, isn't it?

Or is it? Is this really a huge part of Quebec's annual budget?

Seems as though it's more about Khadir's desire for Quebec sovereignty than anything else.

"Not that there's anything wrong with that."
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 12:04 AM
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16. The Queen has been afraid to go to Quebec for two generations. I don't blame her.
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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-01-11 07:11 AM
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22. Well......he should know.
"He studied medicine at Université Laval, physics at McGill University, and completed postdoctoral studies at the Université de Montréal.

A medical specialist in infectious microbiology, he practices at the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Le-Gardeur in Lachenaie. Khadir is a member of the Coalition des Médecins pour la Justice Sociale (Coalition of Doctors for Social Justice), which opposes the privatization of the Quebec health system."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Khadir

I followed the link to his wiki Muriel Vogelstranger kindly gave us. From what I read, I like him a lot.
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