CAQ shows muscle over taxis, religious symbols
It’s not like they’re doing anything they didn’t say they would do: the CAQ is not backing down on the taxi bill and François Legault is said to be preparing to invoke the notwithstanding clause to pass his law forbidding teachers from wearing religious symbols. Quebec wanted this kind of government. Now we’ve got it.
I wonder who’ll police the symbol law. The principal? Will it depend on parents making complaints? Or will a squad of inspectors visit schools randomly, removing kippas and hijabs or marching teachers out who don’t comply?
Betcha cross necklaces will still be acceptable.
Brett 08:32 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
I’m getting a headache from the CAQophony of anti-CAQ posts in this blog.
Chris 08:50 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
Brett, props for continuing to read anyway! These days, people tend to stay in their bubbles and never expose themselves to ideas/options they disagree with, but it’s important to do so.
Brett 09:10 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
But this is supposed to be a Montreal City blog, not a commentary on Provincial politics.
Kate 09:12 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
Speaking of policing…!
The CAQ matters to Montreal because they were elected in the ROQ more or less in opposition to Montreal and its culture and aims. As such, a lot of what the CAQ chooses to do is crucially relevant to Montreal and I intend to keep a sharp eye on it.
Blork 09:52 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
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qatzelok 10:05 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
In a perfect world, teachers are weighed down with gold chains and medieval clothing, and there’s a cigarette-smoking taxi driver zooming around every street corner at high speed?
/trying to help
Mr.Chinaski 10:09 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
Brett, this blog was anti-PQ for a long time, but pitchforks gotta be kept sharpened so it’s anti-CAQ now. In the end, this blog feels more and more angryphone/CJAD’esque and less about local events in Montréal.
dwgs 10:23 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
Really Mr. Chinaski? Really? You just caused me to go back over the last month of posts here and I found exactly 3 that mentioned the CAQ, all of which were directly tied to Montreal (taxi licensing, etc). Every single post was about Montreal affairs. The only one that was kinda tangential pointed out the Mtl origins of the guy who ratted out the college admissions bribery scandal in the States. I’ve also found Kate to be, if anything, overly tolerant (in my view) of certain opinions.
Uatu 10:35 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
No. If this blog were like cjad, then I wouldn’t be here because seriously, fuck cjad and it’s bullshit. At least Kate let’s you respond and not cut u off like the producer of the Tommy schnurmacher show…
Ian 11:34 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
It’s pretty safe to say the vast majority of civil servants in religious garb are in Montreal, and our city was subjected to intentional traffic slowing in many places yesterday because of taxi protests. If you think CAQa policy is a solely provincial issue you’re not paying attention, like Kate says much of their policy is meant to specifically target & punish Montreal and its big-city ways.
jeather 12:15 on 2019-03-27 Permalink
This blog isn’t really pro any of the provincial parties as far as I’ve noticed, but the Liberals don’t do as much anti-Montreal stuff when they’re in power because more of their support is here than the other parties, so the things they do wrong tend to be less relevant because they affect the whole province rather than the city specifically.
Kate 07:07 on 2019-03-28 Permalink
I am in favour of Montreal. I’m against provincial party initiatives that have as an implicit part of their philosophy to sculpt Montreal to be more like the rest of Quebec. Both the PQ and CAQ operate partly on this principle – why let the big, shambling, tolerantly multicultural metropolis get away with things that would never fly in the regions – and, as such, I am constitutionally opposed to their activities.
But the unstated motto of this blog is “Montreal first!”