There was a time when Quebec sat as a jewel amongst provincial jewels in Canada.

It is evident that not only has that image been tarnished beyond recognition, all signs are pointing towards the utter destruction of that once proud culture.

This isn’t melodrama, folks.  This is fact.  Hordes of businesses continue to make their exodus to more promising prairie lands.  Individuals and families have long seen the writing on the wall.  Fact – according to a 2011 census, for the first time in our country’s history, more people are living west of Ontario than east of the Ottawa River.

Many will point to a Quiet Revolution that has morphed into a roaring secularized lion as the reason for Quebec’s demise.  Some will wag a chastising finger at the burgeoning cultural snobbery that has become the hallmark of said ‘revolution’; an attitude that ran rough-shot on the last vestiges of a humble people rooted in Catholic traditions.

Ah, yes.  Catholicism.  The bane of the left… and of the homosexual Michel Foucault and his post-structuralist leanings, bent on helping transform the Quebecois into a modernistic monolith, even while draped in the hair-shirt called Confederation.

That damn Canadian “identity”.  That damn Catholic Church.  Quebec, come hell or high water, was gonna see this thing through.

And as history would have it, the degradation of a culture is seemingly in its final stages.

I’d say the not-s0-‘belle Province’ has become a laughing-stock, if not for the fact that its course took another sad and twisted turn yesterday.  Once again, the dunce cap was fitted, this time courtesy of a Court of Appeal decision that stomped all over religious liberty.  At the heart of the matter, is a state-imposed Ethics and Religious Culture course that is extra-light on the ‘religious’, and hammer-heavy on the ‘state’.  All the private school in question wants is to teach the course from a Catholic perspective.  The nerve of those Jesuits.  Honest-to-goodness Jesuits, too.  The education minister wants teaching neutrality.  What that means, essentially, is that Catholic teaching must be sacrificed at the altar of the secular humanist.  There is no back seat on this bus.  It’s all, or nothing.  And this is the conundrum all those who hold to faith, face.

Remember that Quebec government-funded “Registry of Homophobic Acts” from this past summer?  Remember how it was lauded as a “world first”?  This is the road that Quebec is travelling.  Decide to raise a sign on a street corner proclaiming  “Marriage = one man, one woman”, and you run the risk of being deemed “homophobic”.  Even though people are finally waking up to the fact that the term “homophobia” makes no sense whatsoever.

But in Quebec, fighting “homophobia” is hard work.  Expensive, too.  To the tune of $7 million a year.  I wonder if that price -tag has been adjusted somewhat now that there is a particular Jesuit boys school on tenterhooks, faced with the dilemma of either taking the fight to Canada’s Supreme Court or standing down against the schoolyard bully.

As it is, Quebec has almost cleared all those Catholic stones from its passway.  Almost.

No longer a jewel, it stands as a type of  faux diamond, thanks to the false teachings of so-called progressives birthed from revolution.

One of its off-spring had this to say about the future of Canada in relation to Quebec – “I always say that if, some time, I believed that Canada was really the Canada of Stephen Harper, and it was going against abortion, and it was going against same-sex marriage, and that it was moving backwards in 10,000 different ways, maybe I would think about making Quebec a country.”

Promises, promises, Justin Trudeau.

Promises, promises.