The ‘ethnic vote’ still has no home in PQ ranks | Full Comment | National Post
Just one more reason why First Nations would never go with Quebec if they ever separate.
Quelle direction le Québec doit-il prendre? | Parti Québécois
The ‘ethnic vote’ still has no home in PQ ranks
When Pauline Marois became leader of the Parti Québécois in 2007, one of her first acts was to introduce an “identity act” that would ban non-French speakers (including Canadian citizens) from holding public office, or even from petitioning the Quebec legislature. In the rest of Canada, this sort of baldly unconstitutional proposal comes from no-hope third parties. In Quebec, it comes from the official opposition.
In the current provincial election campaign, Ms. Marois had a chance to elevate her message. Jean Charest, after all, had opened the door to his opponents by dragging his feet on calling a proper inquiry into the crooked quarters of the province’s construction industry. Ms. Marois might have campaigned on the theme of good government, even if she also mixed in the usual unedifying Harper-bashing and separatist propaganda.
Indeed, there is something disturbingly messianic about the PQ campaign video — and not just the over-the-top music. Toward the end, there is a scene in which Ms. Marois is depicted in slow motion, surrounded by admirers, gazing upward with an expression of hope and awe, as if some higher power had manifested itself in the heavens to deliver the true “freedom” that (she claims) Quebecers now lack.
Just one more reason why First Nations would never go with Quebec if they ever separate.
Quelle direction le Québec doit-il prendre? | Parti Québécois
The ‘ethnic vote’ still has no home in PQ ranks
When Pauline Marois became leader of the Parti Québécois in 2007, one of her first acts was to introduce an “identity act” that would ban non-French speakers (including Canadian citizens) from holding public office, or even from petitioning the Quebec legislature. In the rest of Canada, this sort of baldly unconstitutional proposal comes from no-hope third parties. In Quebec, it comes from the official opposition.
In the current provincial election campaign, Ms. Marois had a chance to elevate her message. Jean Charest, after all, had opened the door to his opponents by dragging his feet on calling a proper inquiry into the crooked quarters of the province’s construction industry. Ms. Marois might have campaigned on the theme of good government, even if she also mixed in the usual unedifying Harper-bashing and separatist propaganda.
Indeed, there is something disturbingly messianic about the PQ campaign video — and not just the over-the-top music. Toward the end, there is a scene in which Ms. Marois is depicted in slow motion, surrounded by admirers, gazing upward with an expression of hope and awe, as if some higher power had manifested itself in the heavens to deliver the true “freedom” that (she claims) Quebecers now lack.
