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Sep. 22nd, 2006 03:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frandroidThere was 12 articles yesterday in La Presse about Jan Wong's Globe and Mail column from Saturday.
Wong's article, for those who want to catch up. Once you're gone past this stuff in the first two pages, she doesn't go back to it so you don't need to read the whole thing.
So anyway. I don't know what to say. Jan Wong is a pretty smart woman. She came to our student media conference last January and she rocked. I do think that she likes a good story better than she liked the truth though.
Without even going into "English Canada is not a perfectly welcoming place either", there are some problems with Wong's theory. Even if English Montréal was such a tight-knit community (everyone knows each other? are you fucking kidding me?), then why would a guy who's alienated by the French Fact go kill his anglo peers? He studied at English schools; was it the French people sneaking into the English schools that persecuted him?
Also, Wong links the killings of Gill to those of Marc Lépine and Valery Fabrikant into the immigrant category. If you're doing to link unrelated crimes 15 years apart though, you might as well go back 15 years as well: Denis Lortie, who burst into the National Assembly building in Québec City in 1984, was a "pure laine". He, unlike Gill, killed francophones. Heck, Lortie wanted to assassinate René Lévesque. While he had a beef with separatists, he certainly wasn't alienated in Québécois society because of Bill 101!
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It's amusing to see Harpie eagerly willing to buy political capital at low cost over this issue. This shade of blue doesn't look natural on him.
Anyway, people should keep an eye on this.
Wong's article, for those who want to catch up. Once you're gone past this stuff in the first two pages, she doesn't go back to it so you don't need to read the whole thing.
So anyway. I don't know what to say. Jan Wong is a pretty smart woman. She came to our student media conference last January and she rocked. I do think that she likes a good story better than she liked the truth though.
Without even going into "English Canada is not a perfectly welcoming place either", there are some problems with Wong's theory. Even if English Montréal was such a tight-knit community (everyone knows each other? are you fucking kidding me?), then why would a guy who's alienated by the French Fact go kill his anglo peers? He studied at English schools; was it the French people sneaking into the English schools that persecuted him?
Also, Wong links the killings of Gill to those of Marc Lépine and Valery Fabrikant into the immigrant category. If you're doing to link unrelated crimes 15 years apart though, you might as well go back 15 years as well: Denis Lortie, who burst into the National Assembly building in Québec City in 1984, was a "pure laine". He, unlike Gill, killed francophones. Heck, Lortie wanted to assassinate René Lévesque. While he had a beef with separatists, he certainly wasn't alienated in Québécois society because of Bill 101!
...
It's amusing to see Harpie eagerly willing to buy political capital at low cost over this issue. This shade of blue doesn't look natural on him.
Anyway, people should keep an eye on this.
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Date: 2006-09-22 01:04 pm (UTC)(cbc's been doing some seriously conservative talking about the whole shooting, too, talking about 'policing the internet', etc.)
yeah, jan wong's connection of kimveer gill being disenfranchised with his french peers and going to shoot up an anglo school just doesn't wash, for me.
(also, i thought that marc lepine wasn't an immigrant?)
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Date: 2006-09-23 06:11 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-09-23 08:15 am (UTC)there I go again. XD