JOHNSON William

"Dès qu'ils prennent le micro ou la plume, certains ont le don de rendre leurs propos aussi corrosifs que le vitriol. Leur discours enflamme les passions, provoque des réactions très vives. Ils font tantôt appel à la raison, tantôt aux sentiments, tantôt aux instincts. Ils ne répugnent pas à flatter, à provoquer; quand ils ne peuvent convaincre, ils sèment la zizanie en réveillant de vieilles rancoeurs. M. Johnson, un résidant de Gatineau, est de ceux-là." Murray Maltais

2003

1. Hey Tories, what about the elephant?
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M 2.6.2003 - Mr. Clark, regaining the leadership in 1998, ensured there'd be no healing of the schism in the conservative family or the country. He opposed the reference on secession to the Supreme Court of Canada, and then opposed the Clarity Act, which he promised to rescind. The country utterly lost faith in the PC party and its trustworthiness in dealing with Quebec.
   
   

   2002

2. Flipping out over the flag flap
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M Thursday, December 26, 2002
   
   
3. It's war!: Landry on cloud nine
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M 5.12.2002 There's no account taken of the Supreme Court's analysis of secession and its requirements, none of the Clarity Act, no recognition that the terms of secession would have to be negotiated, and would almost certainly exclude from the successor country the lands of the Indians and the Inuit.
   
   
4. O what wimps we Canadians be
   WILLIAM JOHNSON THE GLOBE AND MAIL Thursday, November 14, 2002
   
   
5. The yahoos who shamed Canada
   G&M Tuesday, September 12, 2002
   
   
6. Turning a blind eye to treason
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M Thursday, August 29, 2002
   
   
7. Mr. Dion's bilingual flapdoodle
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M 15.8.2002 - Our federal Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs just doesn't get it.
   
   
8. When it comes to Quebec, down with Joe Clarkism
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M Thursday, August 8, 2002
   
   
9. Warning: Separatism is not dead
   WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M 20.6.2002 - The Clarity Act has still not registered with Quebec's political class. Mr. Landry and editorial writers still convey that a majority vote for secession would result in an independent country. And Quebec's Bill 99 is still on the books. It claims that Quebec can secede unilaterally with its territory intact.
   
   This subversive act is now before the courts, attacked by lawyer Brent Tyler and the Equality Party. The Quebec government has moved to have the challenge thrown out of court. It will take years and a fortune before the suit reaches the Supreme Court of Canada.
   
   Prime Minister Jean Chrétien could strike a decisive blow for Canadian unity, complete the work of his Clarity Act and put an end once and for all to the uncertainty and the threat of secession. He could refer Bill 99 to the Supreme Court for a final judgment on four decades of dangerous illusion.
   
   
10. Rounding up the usual tribalists
    By WILLIAM JOHNSON - G&M Thursday, April 18, 2002
    
    
11. Bill 99: secession on trial
    By WILLIAM JOHNSON - G&M Thursday, March 21, 2002 – On behalf of the Equality Party and its leader, Keith Henderson, lawyer Brent Tyler argued that the law violated the Constitution and that there was no "Quebec people" to found the rights claimed by the law.
    
    
12. Mario, the 'right' man for Quebec?
    William Johnson Globe and Mail 30.5.2002
    
    
13. Le PQ porte le projet du souverainisme québécois depuis 30 ans. Ce parti est ouvert à tous. Il propose un État français en Amérique du nord, par la voix démocratique, dans le respect des droits individuels et des minorités. Le refus de certains groupes ethniques d'y adhérer, sans doute légitime, n'en fait pas pour autant un projet ethnique. Dire le contraire, parler de "tribal politics", par cynisme ou par opportunisme, relève d'un "racisme rampant"; c'est se tromper soi-même et salir la réputation du Québec. Il est malheureux que le plus grand quotidien canadian se complaise dans cette littérature haineuse. - Vigile
    
    

    2001

14. The day Quebeckers did not vote their nationalism
    WILLIAM JOHNSON - G&M 4.10.01 There is a time to dream, and a time to cope with reality. This week, Quebeckers changed the outlook for the future by putting aside tribal politics to judge their government by civic standards. That is a reason for hope.
    
    
15. The money trail leads to France
    WILLIAM JOHNSON G&M Saturday, May 19, 2001
    
    

    2000

16. Missing: a little clarity
    WILLIAM JOHNSON - G&M 13.12.00 «Separatism in Quebec lives only by grace of illusion. Remove the illusions, face the realities that a true process of secession would entail, and separatism will wither like a mummy suddenly exposed to air and light. But our politicians, our pundits, even our academics, have maintained separatism in a semblance of life because they have kept it wrapped in illusions.»
    
    
17. How to kill Quebec separatism
    Bill Johnson, G&M 6.12.00

    1998

18. Bouchard faces enemy within (Extraits)
    19.6.98 Josée Legault vue par Bill Johnson...
    
    
19. The sky is falling! In English yet!
    2.10.98
    
    
20. Tribalisme haineux
    Pierre-Paul Roy Laval, 3 juin 1998 Lettre au Devoir, 9.6.98. Gaston Miron est mort le 14 décembre 1996. Six jours plus tard, le 20, un chroniqueur du nom de William Johnson écrivait un torchon sur notre poète national Gaston Miron le magnifique. Il titrait sa chronique dans The Montreal Gazette: «Reactionary tribalism».