martin14 martin14:
CommanderSock CommanderSock:
Quebec is a beautiful province with some serious issues.
That being said, Haiti of the north tag is a bit too harsh on them.
More likely a European welfare state that relies on its bigger brothers to cushion its inflated standards of living. Relative to its industrial and service output that is.
Think both Greece and Italy.
A country that flat out lied to get use of the Euro... hint hint
Another country that has criminals as MPs, and changes
governments like we change our socks.
Not bad, Sock, not bad..

Satirical or not, its not far from the truth of the state of Quebec.
If left to their own vices its exactly how they will end up...and quite frankly Quebec is already there. We know that corruption at the municipal level is quite an issue now. We all know about the Mafia and the city of Montreal.
Nevertheless Quebec will always have lofty standards of living, just like Italy and Greece.
Until one day some fund accountant at Goldman Sachs crunches some numbers and realizes that it's no longer worth investing in. When credit dries up, there will be strikes and public marches. Cars will get torched and overturned and so on.
Canada, or the US (ahem Germany) will do some backdeals, some debt relief and offer some more cheap credit to keep the scheme going for another 30 years until it repeats.