Straight from my class....

In my Quebec History class at U of O today we are talking about Nationalism and 'the other'. Oh joy. Someone just presented on an article about the Conservative Party's loss, as it related to Quebec, to King in 1926. I had forgotten the part of this whole story that involved, then PM, Meighen, having appointed a number of unelected Ministers to his cabinet from Quebec (who were francophone, including somewhat famous Patenaude)... the article was linking this decision to the electoral downfall of the Conservatives in both Quebec and Canada for basically the next 60 years... Kinda hoping history will repeat itself with this situation. I was overwhelmed by the similarities here (and many other ways that were argued in the article) of the success then demise of Conservatives in Quebec (albeit today's cons are not those of yesteryear...enh that was kinda a lobbycon over tired tangential point)...moving on, the point of this is to document that I employed the term "douchebag" in class when commenting on the similarities to Fortier and the problems decisions such as Meighen's - and more recently, Harper's - create for representative democracy....In doing so, I called Fortier a "douchebag". Nice, new high (low?) in my academic career....

Onward and upward...courtesy of paint: