text: I ran out of space. To finish off my reaction to 887, realizing after the fact that it was an anti-English rant done by an accomplished and skilled artist with a sophisticated technical crew backing him, any good feelings I had about 887 have evaporated. I heard Eleanor Wachtel interview him on Writers & Company on CBC Radio 1 today. Yes, there's lots of interesting stuff there. However, unless you are attuned to English-Quebecois history and those tensions, you will miss the fact that at its heart, 887 is an elaborately-produced slap in the face to English Canadians. Montreal Gazette Journalist and writer William Johnson spent much of his career looking at the history of English-French history and relations in Quebec and concluded that the Quebeois and their variant of the Roman Catholic church spent the last 150 years promoting hatred of the English. That's why I and some 250,000 English Canadians left Quebec in the 1970s and 1980s, the largest migration within Canada in our history.