Here’s an amazing fact. It is illegal in Quebec for a woman to officially adopt her husband’s last name. The Canadian province is so far advanced toward a socialist definition of family it’s surprising children aren’t taken from their parents at birth.

Jean Paul writes:

Reading about the current American struggles against the Marxist-feminist agenda, may I submit some amusing tidbits from Quebec, the most socialist part of a socialist country? Your readers may find them of interest and they might be the future news for the U.S.

Around 1984, Quebec made it illegal for a wife to take the name of her husband. The law required children to bear either or both names of the parents, which could obviously cause problems down the line, so the law limited the number of family names to four. 

To facilitate the resolution of differences within the family regarding whose name(s) the children acquire, the law created a new cause of action whereby the happy couple may litigate the matter in the Superior Court (the one that hears divorces); a judge then names the bundles of joy. I forget whether there is any right of appeal which might drag things out until the nameless child finishes high school. 

In 1989 Quebec enacted legislation putting every married couple into a 50/50 situation for all major assets. Fair enough, right? But they did it retroactively, and thus stomped many of the husbands absolutely flat, which was of course the intention. But, in my own experience litigating (only) amicable settlements, the wives of useless men were unfairly ruined financially in one case out of every six. The Quebec Minister for the Status of Women exempted herself from her own law because, you see, her husband was a drunk and her case was, and I quote, “special.” 

In 1994 a new law stated that the free government hospital/clinic may not inform the parents about the free government abortion performed on their 14-year-old daughter, unless she stays more than 24 hours in said establishment, on the assumption that they might waste the services of the free government child welfare officers looking for her, if she goes to her free government school Monday morning and doesn’t show up at home until Tuesday evening. You follow me so far? 

The same Family Law eliminated the word “parent,” replacing it with “the holder of parental authority” because, of course, mom and dad merely “hold” said “authority” as Grantees (until revokation thereof). The State, naturally, is the Grantor. Makes good sense, no? 

But what really, really disturbed me was the law that will raise the annual license fee for 1000 cc sports motorcycles from $275 to $1400 (for a 4 month season). The Marxist-feminists don’t like husbands, men or parents; OK, fine. But now they don’t like boys on motorcycles either. They go too far.

 Laura writes:

I would not want to run into the Quebec Minister for the Status of Women in a back alley.

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Jean Paul adds:

Article 393 of the new (1994) Quebec Civil Code requires the wife to keep and use only her maiden name. This repeats the earlier law (of 1984, if I recall). My old Ma was an 18-year-old war bride from England, married in ’44. She’s 85 and goes to the Montreal General Hospital for a tuneup. I call them asking for Mrs. Lefebvre in room 1234; they say there is no Mrs. Lefebvre in room 1234. 

I think, My God, she’s dead. 

They tell me they have a Mrs. Camies in room 1234. She hasn’t used her maiden name, Camies, once in 67 years. All her ID says Lefebvre; the socialists in charge renamed an 85-year-old woman. They may be a lot of things but they’re not shy.  Don’t get me started.

Laura writes:

So even though she gave them her married name, they changed it for their papers. What an outrage.                             

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