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Prohibit Now, Discuss Never Is the $64 Billion Party Over? Malouf Wajsman Dhavernas Les héritiers de Montreal: time AnGLAID !?! ET SI for a new agenda Mgr Desranleau Page 3 Page 2 C’ÉTAIT FrenchSHIT ? Page 8 Ensemble et libres Together and free 28 MAI 2009 • VOL. 2, NO 10 THE BILINGUAL JOURNAL OF REFLECTION, OPINION AND THE ARTS • LE JOURNAL BILINGUE DE RÉFLEXION, OPINIONS ET LES ARTS WWW.THEMETROPOLITAIN.CA Is the $64 billion party over? Les femmes Alan Hustak trahies [email protected] t’s been four years since Mayor Gérald Tremblay first sketched out Djemila Benhabib his ambitious $64-billion plan to transform the face of Montreal. I [email protected] Armed with flow charts, maps and architectural renderings of ‘‘dream schemes,” Tremblay spoke to the Montreal Real Estate Board about the “Tremendous potential ahead.’’ He was going to tear up the ortement épaulée par des représentantes du Bonaventure Expressway, reclaim the waterfront, and in a partnership Conseil islamique canadien et de Présence with private enterprise, develop 557,000 square metres of vacant lots Fmusulmane, la Fédération des femmes du Québec downtown. At the time, the city was running a $400-million surplus (FFQ) a adopté une résolution banalisant le port du voile and the Dominion Bond Rating Service assigned the city an A-Rating islamique dans les institutions publiques québécoises, for its “spending prudence.” lors d’une assemblée générale spéciale qui s’est déroulée That was then; this is now. à l’université Laval, le 9 mai dernier, et à laquelle j’ai The long list of mega projects that Tremblay envisioned four years assisté en qualité d’observatrice. Il y a des alliances et ago have now either been scaled back, cancelled or delayed. The most des prises de position qui minent les principes. spectacular, a billion dollar downtown casino and Cirque du Soleil La crédibilité de la FFQ est sérieusement entachée : complex never got beyond the hype. But because this is an election pour une poignée de militantes islamistes, la FFQ a year, proposals for a number of other grandiose building schemes sacrifié des millions de femmes musulmanes qui, ici continue to fly off the drawing boards. Public hearings are about to be comme ailleurs dans le monde, se battent au péril de leur held on a proposed 34-storey skyscraper for the corner of Mackay St. vie. Aujourd’hui, il n’y a qu’un verbe qui tourne en and Rene Levesque Blvd, and for another tower at the foot of Beaver boucle dans ma tête : j’accuse! Hall Hill that would soar high above St. Patrick’s Basilica. The public square at the heart of the district is nearing completion and J’accuse la FFQ de trahir la lutte historique des The 100-million Seville Theatre Project near the old Forum appears expected to be open for the Jazz festival. But that’s about it. Contracts femmes d’ici pour se débarrasser de l’hégémonie de to be a go, but the most visible construction activity is the $120-million still have to be signed for the long awaited $270-million Symphony l’Église catholique. overhaul of the entertainment district near Place des Arts, a Quartier Hall. French architect Paul Andreu, better known for designing J’accuse la FFQ de mettre un bâillon, (encore un !), des Spectacles being developed by Societe immobiliere du Quebec. Continued on page 7 sur la bouche de toutes celles qui, dans le monde, subissent dans leur chair la barbarie des régimes oppres- sifs musulmans qui les obligent à porter ce linceul de la mort qu’est le voile islamique. J’accuse la FFQ de compromission avec des The New Lilliputians — mouvements politiques les plus rétrogrades comme que le Conseil islamique canadien, qui a mené une campagne acharnée pour l’instauration des tribunaux islamiques en Ontario, ou encore Présence musulmane, qui fait la promotion des thèses de Tariq Ramadan, qui Prohibit now, discuss never prône un « moratoire » sur la lapidation des femmes adultères, un châtiment préconisé par la charia islamique. Un moratoire…?!? Freedom of speech—but at what point does it become slander? Le 28 février 1994, Katia Bengana, une jeune David T. Jones Freedom of the press—but what are the parameters of libel, let lycéenne de 17 ans, fut sauvagement assassinée par le alone “hate” when making such speech? Groupe islamique armée (GIA) qui avait imposé aux [email protected] Freedom of religion—but to practice polygamy, let alone human femmes de mon pays, l’Algérie, l’obligation de porter le sacrifice? voile islamique. Katia était de cette trempe de femmes ashington, DC - There are basic needs for human Every freedom comes with its own thorn hedge of rules, regula- qui ne courbent pas l’échine et c’était en connaissance beings: the obvious are food; shelter; sex. And then it tions, and restrictions. But what these also demonstrate is that de cause qu’elle était sortie de chez elle la tête nue. Ce Wbecomes complicated for societies where the basics are there is a human lust as great as that for food, shelter, or sex—and jour-là, j’ai compris qu’être femme avait un prix. J'avais “givens,” and needs become more abstract. Are the freedoms that is the lust to control others. The lust to tell others what to do 21 ans. Alors qu’à cet âge on rêve généralement à mille enumerated in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (and the U.S. and the power to assure that they do it. It used to be said about et une fantaisies, je ne rêvais pour ma part qu’à sauver Constitution) “freedoms”—or limitations on the actions that a U.S. Puritans that they lay awake at night angry that somewhere ma peau. Ce jour-là, j’ai compris aussi que le combat citizen might take otherwise? Continued on page 11 Suite à la page 5 KILGOUR: Principles needed in Canada-China engagement Page 10 COTLER: In Defence of Anti-Discrimination Laws Page 19 2 LETTRES - LETTERS THE MÉTROPOLITAIN • 28 MAY 2009 • VOL. 2, NO 10 WWW.THEMETROPOLITAIN.CA Beryl Wajsman Editor & Publisher [email protected] LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER Ensemble et Libres ~Together and Free Édifice Hermès, Tour A, Suite 155, 1470 rue Peel, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3A 1T1 Montreal: time for a new agenda Tel: 514-759-8541 Fax: 514-759-8544 e-mail: [email protected] hen we crawled out of the mists of the monies on pork barrel vote grabbing schemes, then jungles of history to create communities complain that they have to fine and tax more just to Rédacteur en chef et Éditeur W– villages, the origin of cities - it was not deal with the basics. An example of that at the Beryl P. Wajsman out of what today’s politically correct zeitgeist municipal level is some $13 million spent on Managing Editor and Deputy Publisher would consider a noble purpose. It was done out of skateboarding rinks in the west and east ends, and Anthony Philbin selfishness. As it happens, one of mankind’s more needless bike paths destroying commuter arteries Rédacteur-adjoint principal creative instincts if husbanded properly. and city streets downtown. Daniel Laprès We realized we could protect ourselves better The job of elected officials is not to engage in Creative Editor against the wolves of the forests if we acted social engineering. To impose fines for citizens Alan Hustak together. Defense was the primary motivation for doing what is the city’s work, or making choices Contributing Editor the organization of the community. The word for about personal risk is criminal. One of the latest Brigitte B. Garceau that organization in Greek is polis. The origin of our examples in nanny-statism are the fines levied at Coordonnateur, Affaires internationales modern day “politics” and “policing”. But it was storekeepers in town who don’t clean the public Leonard Dykler (Paris) not the sort of policing we have come to suffer Bela Kosoian sidewalks in front of their establishments. That Copy Editor through today. should not be their responsibility. Their taxes pay Ray Doucet It was not the imposition of some collective will me that she had come out of the former Soviet for the city to do that. Photojournaliste over individual conscience. Nor the brute force that Union to live free. That was in her thoughts all For municipal politicians to offset these responsi- Robert J. Galbraith demonizes citizens merely to collect money weekend. Bela had entered the Montmorency bilities on citizens is an admission that they can’t do Editorial Artwork through the enforcement of prohibition and nullifi- metro station in Laval. She was on the escalator their jobs. Roy Piperberg, Melissa K. Wheeler cation. It was organization – policing - so that when a transit guard told her to hold onto the Before the next municipal elections, perhaps we Ventes et Marketing through common defense we could have more time handrail. She replied that she didn’t have three should demand that those running for office outline Joseph Mardini, Genevieve Maclean for the fullest flowering of our individual possibili- hands as she was searching for something in her specific plans for rectifying the problems in the five IT Director ties. The fullest flowering of our individual passions handbag. The guard persisted. She asked to be left core areas we mentioned above. If they have no Valeri Prudnikov and poetries. alone. The guard called over a police officier. He ideas, then maybe they should be disqualified from Webmestre Though those first social contracts demanded asked her for identification. She refused. He running. Before we allow municipal leaders to François Charbonneau cessions of some our treasure for the provision of handcuffed her and took her to a holding room engage in harebrained schemes of bike paths and the service of defense, they did not demand where she was not allowed to call a lawyer.
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