QUEBEC AUTHOR TROTS OUT ANGLO BOGEYMAN IN TIME FOR HALLOWEEN
Tue, 2009-10-20 05:28.
It seems the fat English lady has come a long way since Eaton's closed down. She's now working at the managerial level in professional hockey, where she continues to discriminate against francophones, according to a book written by Montreal-born former NHLer Bob Sirois, who claims there's an anti-francophone bias in the National Hockey League, and backs up his argument by quoting statistics from 40 years of entry drafts that purportedly reveal disproportionately low Quebec representation relative to the province's share of the population. A couple of things about that: 1. take it from someone who's written a thousand sports editorials - statistics can be manipulated to make them say anything you want them to say, and 2. since when does the NHL have a quota on the number of players who have to be drafted from a certain province or country? Most disturbing of all is that Sirois' argument comes out of left field in the complete absence of any anecdotal evidence and decades after the anti-French bogeyman was put to bed for all but the most spiteful and paranoid Quebec nationalists. I don't know Bob Sirois personally, so I can't say for certain whether he's got a chip on his shoulder or if he's just an opportunist playing the increasingly frayed and tattered humiliation card to try to sell a few books, but if it's not one or the other, then it's both. 
