Quebec Newsroom Layoffs Spark Sovereigntist Demands
by Canwest News Service
Friday, April 25, 2008

QUEBEC -- Opposition parties at the National Assembly pressed the government Thursday to negotiate with Ottawa to opt out of the national Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and create its own regulator.

The call comes as Quebec network TQS announced Wednesday it was closing its newsrooms across the province, sparking a public outcry.

Premier Jean Charest said he will ask the CRTC to force TQS to continue its new coverage. He also noted that his government wants to negotiate with the federal government to reach an agreement to give Quebec more input in the CRTC.

But it's not enough for the Parti Quebecois and the Action democratique du Quebec, who want Quebec to repatriate all telecommunications powers, a move that would require the reopening of the Constitution.

Their proposed Quebec regulator would govern what rules would apply to the province's airwaves and decide what would air on Quebec television.

"This way, we wouldn't be begging Ottawa to do something about TQS, for instance," PQ leader Pauline Marois told reporters in front of the legislature.

Charest's Liberal government opposed the motion and said his government had no intention of launching another round of Constitutional talks at this point.

I have a better idea.  Disband the BLOATED CRTC all together!!!

On another note, Quebec, sit down and shut the hell up.  The entire country is sick and g-d tired of your non stop whining about crap that doesn't really matter.  Can you not just go about life without this non stop pissing and moaning that you do?

Quebec is like the one guy that gets too loud and too drunk and ruins the party for everyone else.

WE'VE HAD ENOUGH QUEBEC!!! SHUT UP ALREADY!!!

There.  I feel much better now that I let that out.