The government says more than 34,600 have been killed in the four years since President Felipe Calderón took office and threw the federal police and military at the cartels, with the toll for 2010, 15,237, the heaviest yet. 3, 2011Īlthough Mexico has been a producer and transit route for illegal drugs for generations, the country now finds itself in a pitched battle with powerful and well-financed drug cartels. Source: The New York Times - Updated: Aug. However, the alternatives seem so much more attractive. Unfortunately, perhaps by intellectual laziness, the debate is always directed to the two old ideologies that do not work. Quebec could, according to this model, really develop its regional strengths. Moreover, Quebec could reshape its system of power, for example by creating parliaments in each administrative region, while reducing the power of cities, and of course the power of the National Assembly. While at first glance appear negative impacts, such an economic point of view, this is a valid option that would at least be more thoroughly analyzed. The question that arises is why there is no new alternatives being proposed? For example, no one speaks of the possibility for Quebec to join the United States. Proponents of the separatist ideology would like that Quebec citizen would all be unified by the French language, and the history of struggle between Anglophones and Francophones.īoth of them believe that, and this is especially the case for the fallen sovereigns of the PQ now, that in creating new political parties, bringing in new leaders, people will one day in a ripple effect, to join the cause. For them, Quebec is already a completely distinct society, and they will tell you behind closed doors that, in a way, the province of Quebec is already independent.įor supporters of an independent Quebec, a joint venture distinct from French, they will always be disappointed with the amalgam differentiated language of Quebec, because Quebec is not really unified whole. The citizens from other Canadian provinces know this since a long time.
Although these two models are individually highly relevant, both models seem unfortunately not apply in Quebec.įor those who value the Canadian federal model, they will always be disappointed that Quebec will never be a "real" Canadian province in terms of culture and in terms of how to do politics. The crisis in recent weeks within the Parti Québécois (PQ) back in the same dark corridor, the old fight in which two opposing ideological models : Quebec in the Canadian model and Quebec as an independant country.