Young Libs want an end to multiculturalism
This is how it happens: now the Young Liberals (PLQ) want an end to multiculturalism in Quebec as they edge rightward to try to capture back some votes from the CAQ (and even the PQ).
On the weekend, someone tweeted: “Every once in a while you just have to remind yourself that Anders Breivik’s political ideology is now, with various degrees of veiling, the platform of pretty much every mainstream conservative party in the Western world.”
Ian 19:13 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Wow, that is utterly awful. Pandering to the racist vote.
Jack 20:22 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Pandering isn’t quite right, I think caving to the idea that this place is owned by the french origin community and that the rest of us are historic accidents. I think that is more in keeping with this new impulse of supremacy. Reading this guys Linkedin, because like everyone I didn’t know who he was, is very instructive.
First he worked in NDG for the sitting member Ms.Weil as an executive assistant. Where i assume he might have met the odd non member of the majority community.
He also is graduate of McGill University which might have given him insight into the various folks who make up Quebec.
But the real kicker is his language qualifications:
Français,
Native or bilingual proficiency,
Espanyol
Native or bilingual proficiency,
English
Professional working proficiency,
To be a vanguard in his world, after working in an english speaking community, attending an english speaking institution, he can’t admit to being bilingual…..it looks bad and he has places to go, like Herouxville.
Kevin 20:31 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
The three most poisonous words in this province are “la culture québécois”.
Anyone uttering these words has instantly identified themselves as a person filled with fear and self-doubt.
Don’t waste breath debating them: they are too uptight to understand the world.
Meanwhile the successful cultures (of ehich there are many in this province) will continue to seduce their children and would-be spouses.
Kevin 20:33 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Oh yeah: the adult Liberals will kill this motion, like they do all the other silliness that has been proposed by the young Libs through the ages.
Jean Naimard 22:07 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Of course, you know that Québec is merely continuing to do France’s work with regard to Britain, which is attempting to annihilate it, which it has been doing more or less constantly for the last thousand years. Nowhere in History such hatred over the major civilizating power in the World has been continuously deployed. Those people don’t know that without Britain, they would still be a bunch of naked savages.
Kate 22:15 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Hi there, Jean Naimard. Long time no rant.
Kevin 22:31 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
Rage all you want Jean, there have been multiple francophone cultures in this province for ages and there always will be.
Chris 23:09 on 2019-08-06 Permalink
We liberals should do some introspection. There are real societal problems that ‘establishment’ politicians can’t/won’t/don’t tackle. Inequality, stagnant wages, 2009 bailouts, market fundamentalism, surveillance capitalism, climate change, political correctness, identity politics, disenfranchisement, democratic reform, etc. Legitimate grievances are not being addressed. So the people are trying something else.
Mr.Chinaski 10:02 on 2019-08-07 Permalink
Wow, A wild “Jean Naimard” appears…
qatzelok 18:23 on 2019-08-07 Permalink
@Kevin: “Meanwhile the successful cultures (of ehich there are many in this province) will continue to seduce their children”
Who are “the successful cultures” you refer to, and why are you celebrating their seduction of children?
Kevin 09:02 on 2019-08-08 Permalink
@qatzelok
Deliberately truncating a quote and misinterpreting it? How very MBC and Martineau of you.
The full quote is “Meanwhile the successful cultures (of which there are many in this province) will continue to seduce their children and would-be spouses.”
Seduction, as in the Quebec movie La Grande Séduction.
Children, as in the famous maxim “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man” attributed to a host of scholarly figures.
Would-be spouses, because jerks find themselves unsuccessful in making romantic attachments.
Successful cultures know that the way to grow is by being attractive and open and welcoming, as opposed to beating people until morale improves.
If you want to know which cultures are successful, just look at every group that the scaredy-cats at Quebecor are railing against.
EmilyG 22:25 on 2019-08-08 Permalink
I think I learned the word “intercultural” when I worked at a cultural centre here in Montreal. The centre insisted on the interculturalism of Montreal, and of welcoming people of all cultures. In a document, it said that Canada is multicultural, but Quebec is intercultural, and there was some difference between the two, I forget what (maybe about other cultures integrating more into Quebec culture in Quebec? I don’t know.)
It seemed to me that the people born in Quebec/of Québécois heritage were more likely to say that Montreal is “intercultural,” and people from other countries or children of immigrants were more likely to say Montreal is “multicultural.” Being an anglophone born in Quebec and a member of neither of these two groups, I wasn’t really sure of the exact definition of these words, or which one was correct.
Interestingly, a QS MNA has said firmly in a Facebook post (responding to a Journal de Montréal article) that Québec solidaire is intercultural and definitely not multicultural, and does define the terms as he sees them.
Facebook post here, should be visible if not logged in: https://www.facebook.com/AFontecillaQS/posts/2319270351481549/
Michael Black 06:42 on 2019-08-09 Permalink
I would point out that whioe many talk of “indigenous people”, this continent was multicultural before Europeans came over. Adjacent peoples may not be too different, but people from the n0rthwest are different from the plains people and Mohawks are even much different.
And yet there was also interaction,trading and intermarriage, and bits of culture passed around. But nobody wants to be generic Indian, they want their identity.
Even Louis Riel didn’t see Metis as only those with French ancestry. He included those of Scottish ancestry, and I have found three relatives who were part of the provisional government. Two weren’t even Metis, just pure Scot.
Who would want a world where everyone was the same?
Michael
Raymond Lutz 07:30 on 2019-08-09 Permalink
Louis Riel? Eh! We went to the same high school! Le Collège de Montréal (aka Le Petit Séminaire).