Don Martin, the columnist who along with Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham called conservatives “knuckle draggers” recently in their columns, uses some more lovely sober language in his National Post column today—language which couldn’t possible be replaced by any other:
It’s an opportunity, albeit one of inconvenient timing, Duceppe cannot refuse without spending the rest of his life kicking his own ass in retroactive regret.
Charming language for a nationally syndicated columnist, in a nationally distributed, respectable newspaper.
As a paltry pajama-wearing blogger I try harder than that.
But these last two paragraphs in his column are puzzling. He’s talking about Gilles Duceppe making a move to vie for leadership of the now leaderless Parti Quebecois, and thereby leaving his post as Bloc Quebecois leader. Does Martin miss the point of that whole Quebec separatist movement, um, thingy dingy?
For the sake of Canadian unity, he should stay in Ottawa.
Which is precisely the reason he’ll go. Gilles Duceppe wants to be the big cheese.
“For the sake of national unity…”? What Gilles Duceppe manifestly wants is not to be a “big cheese”. What Gilles Duceppe wants is Quebec separation.
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