THE MYTH OF DANIEL JOHNSON AND THE QUIET REVOLUTION
Christopher Richard Wade Dettling (2017)
Daniel Johnson, after having won power in 1966, “continued and even accelerated the major reforms of the Quiet Revolution: For example, he created the Université du Québec and Radio–Quebéc and laid the foundations for the future health insurance system.”¹
French Chauvinists like Daniel Latouche blur the relationship between Franco–Canadian conservatisme and modern European political and economic irrationalism, and thus they mask the real nature and meaning of the Quiet Revolution in world history: “Québec has been a colony for three hundred years, first of France, then of England, then of Canada, and now of the United States.”² Latouche and his French Chauvinist friends hate the royalist France of the Ancien Régime, but they love modern France and the French Revolution, the seedbed of Bonapartisme: They make–believe that the vast majority of Franco–Canadians are lovers of the Napoleonic and French revolutionary conception of right, which is not the conception of right found in the Magna Carta and the Constitution of the United States of America.
They are nothing but dreamers, and their make–believe world is a dream that has swept–away the old order, under the pressures of a greater reality. But as their dreams confront this new reality in turn, they too are condemned to pass–away: “Mind passes over into the new principle and so marks out another civilization [eines welthistorischen Volks] for world–historical significance.”³
Daniel Latouche and his friends are therefore the creatures in drag of the Québec Regime in Ottawa and Empire of Paul Desmarais, namely, the political and economic arm (Québécocracy) of the Québec Inc. Is this really surprising? Proof of the Québec anti–federalist sham is evidenced in the $Billions handed–out over the years (mostly from Ontario and Western Canada) to the Québec Inc under Parti Québecois governments, much of which has lined the pockets of the mortally corrupt élites at Hydro–Québec, Bombardier, SNC–Lavalin, Saputo, the Caisse, the FTQ Construction, Banque Nationale, and BMO, etc., but also finance, commerce and industry affiliated with the Power Corporation.
Since the destruction of Canada entails the political and economic collapse of the Québec Inc, why does the ruling class of Québec back anti–federalism? The answer is very simple: French Canadian federalism and anti–federalism is the backbone of the Québec Regime in Ottawa and Empire of Paul Desmarais. A strong anti–federalist movement in Québec guarantees that an English Canadian politician will always win less than half of the vote: Québec Regimers alone will therefore always have the best chances of ruling Canada. This has been the basis of Canadian political and economic retardation for the past half century, the political “philosophy” of Pierre Trudeau and Cité Libre, and the dirty secret behind the “growth” of the Québec Inc. For this reason, Canada was ruled by Québec Regimers for some fifty years, except for one year under Joe Clark, Kim Campbell and John Turner. In the United States of America, a half century of Californians in the White House is considered anti–democratic, and rightly so. Wherefore? Washington is a superior ruling class.
Few students of Canadian history really know that what the exact historiographers name the Quiet Revolution is actually the disintegration of the British Empire in Canada, namely, the raison d’être behind the Québec Regime in Ottawa and Empire of Paul Desmarais: “Québeckers have lived through the Quiet Revolution: And the Empire of Paul Desmarais is their Quiet Dispossession.”⁴
Daniel Johnson the Elder was a Franco–Canadian politician who upheld the cause of Canada and the American world, against the contagion of modern European political and economic irrationalism, as is evidenced in his strong reaction against the General DeGaulle: Daniel Johnson the Elder was therefore no French Chauvinist like Paul Desmarais.⁵
Incidentally, Jean Chrétien claims to have come down the very hardest against Charles DeGaulle: “I was absolutely the strongest of them all.”⁶ Alas, Ti–Jean is not a very honest and trustworthy historical witness, especially so many decades after the fact. We do not say that he is an historical liar, but he most certainly is an inveterate political demagogue: “Chrétien has always maintained that he and other francophones were barred from playing at the Grand’Mère golf course. Others who lived in Shawinigan said the club had no such discriminatory policy.”⁷ Jean Chrétien obviously had a very bad influence upon Big Paul.
ENDNOTES
1. Daniel Latouche, “Daniel Johnson,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1st edition, vol. 2, James Harley Marsh, editor, Edmonton, Hurtig, 1985, 920.
2. Daniel Latouche in Lawrence Martin, Chrétien: The Will to Win, vol. 1, Toronto, Lester Publishing, 1995, 179.
3. Hegel, Rechtsphilosophie, 1821.
4. Richard Le Hir, Desmarais: La Dépossession Tranquille, Montréal, 2012, 16: “Les Québécois ont connu la Révolution tranquille. L’Empire Desmarais leur mijote la Dépossession tranquille.”
5. See: “If I am the president of France today, it is thanks in part to the advice, the friendship and the loyalty of Paul Desmarais.” Nicholas Sarkozy in Ross Marowits, “Canadian business giant Desmarais dead at 86,” Global News, 9 October 2013.
See also: “One of Sarkozy’s moves was to relaunch the stalled merger between the state-owned gas company and the electric and gas utility Suez SA that is partially owned by Power Financial and partner Albert Frere’s holding company.” Ibidem.
6. Lawrence Martin, Chrétien: The Will to Win, vol. 1, Toronto, Lester Publishing, 1995, 179.
7. Lawrence Martin, Ibidem, 379.
See: “Intellect doesn’t make a good leader, nor does it make a good country.” Jean Chrétien in Martin, Ibidem, 377.
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