Category: Odd + Funny Author : Duncan Riley Posted: July 16, 2008
Tags : canada, the french
French Canadians are upset about Paul McCartney performing in Quebec City as part of 400th anniversary celebrations, because “The presence of [his] English-language music on the most majestic part of Battlefields Park, as beautiful as it might be, can’t help but bring back painful memories of our Conquest.”
The quote is from a letter endorsed by Parti Québécois Members of the National Assembly, and part of a push to have McCartney sing in French at the concert.
The letter asks McCartney to use his performance to make a plea for the sovereignty of the Quebec people and asks McCartney to show the same sensitivity to “the people of French Quebec” as he has shown to “the fate of the seals.”
Better still, one of the two Parti Québécois Members said McCartney’s presence reflects a “Canadianization” of the anniversary celebrations.
According to the National Post, not all French Canadians are raving lunatics, with Jean Charest, the Quebec Premier, say that the people involved should be embarrassed: “Nobody criticizes Céline Dion for singing in Paris, Munich, England or elsewhere on the planet,” he said.
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Jul 16, 2008
This is not a can of worms you want to open.
Jul 17, 2008
I am totally disgusted at the lack of gratitude. Paul McCartney offeres to do a free concert for Quebec's 400th birthday and all we hear is negative comments from a few separitists. Thank God that they do not represent the bulk of Quebec's population. I have travelled to Montreal and to Liverpool to see Paul perform in the past. And here they have a free concert in their back yard. Such a lack of respect! If you don't want him, we will gladly welcome him here in Halifax
Jul 18, 2008
The media turned this joke into a worldwide botched news story. Half a dozen morons decided to complain about Paul McCartney's presence here and the media made it look like all of Quebec was thinking the same way. It's a shame those racist, extremist and separatists retards make us look like fools again. I can tell you that 99% of Quebecers (including moderate separatists who I hope will jump off the ship after this) are happy to have Sir Paul celebrate with us our 400th. Come join us, the city is really beautiful right now!!
Dec 15, 2011
You call this a news story? Referring to people with an opinion as raving lunatics, I suppose the seperatists who founded America like Ben Franklin and George Washington were all lunatics too. The ignorance of people just amazes me. I never knew there were seperatists there till now but they don't need large numbers for their opinion to matter, they only need one member. This whole idea that a ton of people have to agree for an idea to matter is the same exact thinking that got people killed for believing the earth was round. The inmates are running tha asylum.