zhineng

“ 大家必须清楚，只要你选择魁省居住，无论你喜欢还是不喜欢，按理说你都不能无视魁北克独立运动这一客观存在。根据1980年和1995年两次独立公投表决的结果来看，魁北克倾向于独立的民众始终保持在50%左右，魁独的两个政党，魁北克政团（BLOC QUEBECOIS）在联邦国会魁北克省拥有的75个议席中占据了54个席位。而在魁省的魁北克党（PARTI QUEBECOIS）多年来总是和自由党在轮流执政，就目前的形式来看，魁党在下次省选中胜出的可能性极大，也就是说下一届的省政府将由魁党组成。面对这两个具有广泛民众支持的政党，如果我们只是因为魁独这一客观存在的问题，而不愿甚至拒绝与他们打交道套关系，是很不明智的，在政治上可以说是自废武功，画地为牢，自己把自己的政治活动空间缩小。长期以来也正是因为这样，魁北克华人社区的政治生活始终是一塘死水。”

South China Morning Post
December 24, 2005 Saturday
NEWS; Pg. 9

A Quebecois candidate with great expectations

Carol Moreira in Halifax
It would be quite a feat to give birth on the same day that you end the career of a G7 leader. Hong Kong native May Chiu is hoping to do just that on January 23.

The lawyer and single mother will be running in the Canadian general election that day, standing in the Montreal electorate of LaSalle-Emard against Prime Minister Paul Martin. She is running  for the Bloc Quebecois, which wants Quebec to separate from Canada. If she defeats Mr Martin it  would prove a potent symbol of the Francophone province's resentment of the Canadian government.

  It could prove a busy day, as she's also due to give birth to her second child on January 23.

As the child of immigrants, Ms Chiu is trail-blazing by standing for the left-leaning Bloc. Canadians of Chinese descent tend to be federalist and economically cautious and her candidacy has upset partisan Liberal supporters in Quebec's Chinese community - the fourth-largest in Canada.

"eople are worried that separation would create economic instability but I believe independence offers the best economic prospects for Quebeckers of all groups," Ms Chiu says.

"Globalisation has taken away the jobs of many immigrant women working in the textile industry. I would work to protect domestic industries and trade with other countries with the same priorities. And Quebec has always been more socially responsible than other provinces. With separation, we could do even better."

Quebec independence has long been an emotive and contentious issue in Canada. In a 1995 referendum, 49 per cent of Quebeckers voted to split from Canada and last year the Bloc won 54 of Quebec's 75 seats in the Canadian Parliament.

Canadians in the other nine provinces would like an end to the issue. Many are proud of Canada's official bilingualism and feel they have bent over backwards to accommodate Quebec as a province of a special status, which stems from the fact that most Quebeckers are descended from French immigrants.

Ms Chiu is one of nine Bloc candidates from minority groups - the most ethnic-minority candidates in the party's 15-year history. Minority Quebeckers traditionally vote for the Liberal party so the Bloc is astute in fielding so many minority candidates. But Ms Chiu, who grew up speaking English, does not feel her ethnicity is being exploited. If anything, it's an advantage.

"One of my objectives is to show Quebec sovereigntists that minorities can contribute to nation-building," she explains, referring to the ill will that has persisted between sovereigntists and minority groups since 1995 when separatist Jacques Parizeau blamed "money and the ethnic vote" for the narrow defeat of the plebiscite on independence.

"In the past 10 years, the sovereignty movement has changed as the population of Quebec has become more diverse. I'm convinced the Bloc is sincere about being open to diversity," Ms Chiu says.

Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe says independence would allow Quebeckers to represent themselves on the world stage and the fledgling country (which would shave 7.6 million people from Canada's 33 million), would be off to a good start with a GDP among the top 15 in the world.

"Quebec is different [from the rest of Canada]," Mr Duceppe has said. "The vast majority of Quebeckers will say they're Quebeckers and not Canadians and in May Chiu we have a candidate who has shown that she is dedicated to the people of Quebec."

But does Ms Chiu have any hope of toppling Mr Martin, who has held the LaSalle-Emard seat since 1988?

Ms Chiu says the vote is wide open and her candidacy is being boosted by voters' distaste for Liberal corruption, as revealed by the sponsorship scandal in which $100 million went missing after Liberal ministers gave contracts to their friends and associates. Mr Martin, finance minister at the time of the 1990s scandal, has been cleared of wrong-doing but questions remain.

"I'm executive director of an organisation called Chinese Family Services. We're 100 per cent government funded and I've never not been aware of where our money went," Ms Chiu jokes.

"There's a lot of anger towards the Liberal government that's turned to deep disappointment. After all the corruption in this government, I don't see how any traditional Liberal voter can pinch their nose and vote for them."

Things may just swing Ms Chiu's way. An important sign of Quebeckers' disenchantment with the Liberals came on Tuesday, when the biggest union in Quebec, the Quebec Federation of Labour, threw its support behind the Bloc because the Liberal government is failing to halt job losses.

And if she does win, how will the new MP cope with raising her newborn and her five-year-old?

"Oh, I'm not completely assimilated," she laughs. "I have a strong belief in the extended family and my parents and two of my siblings also live in Montreal."

December 23, 2005

zhineng

Wanted : A Bloc Québécois candidate to run against Paul Martin in his southwest Montreal riding.
Qualifications: Must be an immigrant lawyer, single mother, social reformer, sovereignist, bilingual – and quite pregnant.
  
May Chiu is happy to oblige.
The energetic, 40 year-old Chinese community activist is set to be officially nominated Monday by the Bloc in LaSalle-Émard, the prime minister’s bastion.

It’s a done deal – no one is opposing her nomination in such an unwinnable riding – so Chiu, 40, has already started inviting friends to the ceremony.


And her colorful hyperbole is nothing short of revolutionary.

“All are welcome to witness this historic event!” she wrote in an email invitation this week.

“The storming of the winter Palace has begun! Paul Martin, watch your ass!”
Not that he has much to worry about. Even Chiu admits that.
“To speak frankly, it`s not a riding that can be easily won,” she said yesterday from her Chinatown office. “After all, I’m running against the prime minister of Canada. No one in the party wanted this riding.”

Until she came along, that is. “I told them that if they, with all their wealth and comforts, weren’t willing to take this type of risk for sovereignty, I could show them someone who would – me,” she said.


And if she’s due to give birth in just a few weeks, so what? It’ll give her campaign some perspective, she said.

“I’m an immigrant woman, single mom community activist, baby still in my womb, and I’m the one who’ll be challenging the prime minister,” Chiu said. “Basically, I want to make a point, and that is that if I can do it, anyone can.”


Tilting at windmills is something Chiu comes by naturally. Since emigrating from Hong Kong with her parents and three siblings in 1971, she’s gone against people’s expectations.

She grew up Chinese and Anglophone in a French town (Trois Rivières), She studied liberal arts and law instead of business (at McGill University). She took low-paying social and legal work (at Chinese Family Services, where she’s now president). She had a child out wedlock (“the sperm contributor,” as she describes the father moved back to China). This fall she battled the local Chinese community’s leadership over its construction of a multi-million-dollar cultural centre.


And now, much to the chagrin of the heavily federalist Chinese community, she’s doing the unthinkable and running for federal office on a separatist ticket.


Already, I’ve been getting comments like “Oh, how can you do this to our community?” she said. “Others support me, eve if they don’t identify with the Bloc. In the long term, I think I`ll have a positive impact, if only to show the Liberal Party that they can’t take the Chinese community for granted anymore.”

For her, sovereignty is a solution to Quebec’s social ills.

“Quebec has always been much more socially responsible than other provinces,” she said. “I really think that if Quebec has full powers to manage its own wealth and make it`s own policies, it can only get better.”


She uses a very personal example: maternity leave. Self-employed when she had her first child five years ago, she didn’t qualify for nay federal financial support. But with Quebec now talking over maternity leave jurisdiction on Jan.1 She’ll get 75 per cent of her salary while she stays home with her baby girl.

“When I accepted to run, the elections were supposed to be in the spring, and I didn’t even kwon I was pregnant. Now, I tell people that if my daughter cooperates, the Bloc will have two candidates running against Paul Martin, not only one.”

She’s due to give birth Jan 23, Election Day.
jheinrich@thegazette.canwest.com

bitbrains

请讲讲这两个党的异同。Bloc Québécois vs Parti Québécois

baisheng

作为 Lasalle 区的选民, 向赵秀媚的竞选班子提两个问题:
1.  谈谈魁独对QUEBEC的经济影响, 近一步,对中国移民的影响.
2.  为增进了解, 请把赵女士的学习工作履历详细介绍一下. 仅有的几篇新闻, 只提到了她的一部分简历.

xianren

Post by baisheng

2. 为增进了解, 请把赵女士的学习工作履历详细介绍一下. 仅有的几篇新闻, 只提到了她的一部分简历.

赵秀媚的大体情况可以参考：魁北克第一位华人女士挑战总理选区参加联邦议员选举

baisheng

看了,想了解更多.
希望看到更具体的, 按时间顺序, 从事职业( 公司), 类似简历那种,清晰明了.  赵有四十多吧,应该有些经历,可以让大家了解,.  对政治人物,这个要求不过分吧.
[QUOTE=xianren]赵秀媚的大体情况可以参

aba

听说这个人不错。
但，实在不喜欢那个搞魁独的党。
如果这里的印地安人也要闹独立可怎么办？

印地安人可比法国佬来这里早多了。。。。。。。。
来的早是独立的理由吗？
保护法语文化又是独立的理由吗？。。。。

不知道一些（不是所有）魁佬们都在想什么？

最近，明着的，暗着的在这个坛子里搞拉选票的人多起来了。看来有些人在政界开始找到工作了。恭喜啊！

C&C

旗帜鲜明地坚决反对魁独

xuqi20000

Post by zhineng
魁北克华人社区的政治生活始终是一塘死水。

众所周知，蒙特利尔曾是加拿大第一大城市，正是因为闹魁独，大批非法裔精英才移居多伦多，魁北克民众早已意识到这一后果，为什么有的人要把这只破鞋又捡起来象宝贝一样顶在头上？

无非要把魁省的居民分为等级，法裔人和非法裔人，而对华人来说，普通话者与普不通话者，都什么年代了，在北美居然还有人做这种黄凉大梦，华人在北美政治生活的这一笔，绝对不是光彩的一笔。

很多人说那位赵女士是个好人，不见得吧，只有关她不好的贴子全删了，而且说他不好的帐号都被封了吧，那为什么这个网站曾把她的名字屏蔽，说是有人在诽谤她，大家都是脑子的，是不是诽谤辩一辩就明了啦，为什么要封口呢？而且做为一个政治人物，好人与坏人并不是最主要的，关键是她的政见，她选择和代表的是什么？

真要是独立了，就靠那些好吃懒做的魁北瓜，魁北克和蒙特利尔必将走向进一步没落，倾巢之下岂有完卵，整个社会经济下滑，必将给立足未稳的中国移民的就业形势雪上加霜。

很多的移民入了加拿大籍，很多移民选择蒙特利尔做为长久的居住之地，很多移民的子女在魁省正处于升学的关键时期，逃离蒙城绝不是遭受一迁徙之苦那么简单。

不要听信那不可能当选不可能独立的谎言，既然说不可能，那为什么还要这么做，游戏？政治饥渴？难以自圆其说，难道这就是海外华人的政治生活？

希望大家能够珍惜手中珍贵的一票，不管作用多大，是个态度的问题，我们到北美来不是做政客的，理智地使用和维护和善用自已的政治权利，这就是我们的政治生活。

xuqi20000

Post by zhineng
魁北克华人社区的政治生活始终是一塘死水。

众所周知，蒙特利尔曾经是加拿大的第一大城市，正是因为闹魁独，大批非法裔的精英和资产才转移到多伦多，魁北克和蒙特利尔才走向没落，好容易恢复了，这么多年过去了，魁省民众早已经意识到魁独的危害，这已是个不争的事实，可有人为什么还要把这只破鞋重新捡起来，而且象宝贝一样顶在头上？

无非是要把魁北克民众分为等级，法裔人和非法裔人，而对于华人来说，普通话者与普不通话者，都什么年代了，居然还有人做这种春秋大梦，华人在北美参政的这一笔，记在历史上绝对不是光彩的一笔。

有人说那位赵女士是个好人，不见得吧，说她不好的贴子全删了，说她不好的帐号全不见了，为什么这个网站曾一度把这个名字屏蔽，说是有人诽谤她，大家都是有脑子会分析的，而且做为一个政治人物来说，好人与坏人怎么分别，主要看她选择哪个立场代表谁的利益。

魁北克真的独立了，就靠那些好吃懒做的魁北瓜和勾心斗角的各色政客，魁北克和蒙特利尔的经济将再一次滑坡，倾巢之下岂有完卵，这势必给立足未稳的中国移民的就业状况雪上加霜。

很多移民入了加拿大籍，很多移民选择蒙特利尔做为长久居住之地，很多移民的子女正处于升学的关键时期，逃离魁北克决不是再受一次搬家之苦那么简单，这些人为了个人的一点利益什么都肯出卖。

还自打自脸地说，大家不要担心，当选是不可能的，独立是不可能的，只是显示华人的力量。奇怪，不可能的事为什么要做，游戏，欺骗，政治饥渴，这绝不是海外华人健康的政治生活。

希望大家能够重视各自手中宝贵的一票，不管作用多大，是个态度的问题，是个权利的问题，什么是海外华人的政治生活，我们到北美并不是来做政客的，对政治的盲从和燥狂只能影响华人的声誉，能够很好的利用手中这一票的政治权利，这就是我们的政治生活。

说什么魁北克华人社区的政治生活是一塘死水，大家都在冷静思考呢，想浑水摸鱼吗，见鬼去吧！