Winnipeg Sun | 14Jul2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.winnipegsun.com/comment/letters/2010/07/13/14703736.html
Bloc a force
Re: ‘Traitors in our midst,’ Michael Coren, July 10, 2010.
Were the separatist Bloc Quebecois a mere fringe party, its members
would be denounced as traitorous dogs. But with 48 seats -- a dozen
more than fourth place NDP -- the Bloc, like it or not, is a major
parliamentary player, the reason Canada is again likely to be saddled
with a minority government in the next election cycle. Fearful of
alienating Quebec voters, political rivals in the other parties are
careful to draw in their horns on the loyalty issue, even as a Bloc MP
vents about “traitors to the nation.” The Roman poet Ovid captured this
paradox with his timeless verse: “Treason doth never prosper: what’s
the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
Orest Slepokura
Strathmore, Alta.
(As long as they’re
around, minority all the time.)