Legault moves on Montreal ridings
Le Devoir outlines how François Legault will try to capture more Montreal ridings in October. This week he introduced candidates in two traditional PLQ ridings, Verdun and north‑end Maurice‑Richard.
If you look at my list of Montreal provincial ridings it will strike you how many PLQ MNAs have decided to pack it in, and yet we don’t see news of Dominique Anglade introducing new candidates.
Niki 11:23 on 2022-07-24 Permalink
Good luck with that. He’s a wealthy nationalist dinosaur, his divisive politics are not wanted in Montreal. CAQ’s racist, sexist and anti-Anglo agenda is simply regressive and bad for business and society. Non merci. NON.
jeather 13:53 on 2022-07-24 Permalink
He doesn’t really care, he can manage to get reelected fine without Montreal, and then he can continue to give Montreal less than its proportional share of everything without worrying about votes.
Kate 14:56 on 2022-07-24 Permalink
No, but he’d be terribly smug if he won two or three more ridings on the island, showing that even these corrupt city dwellers can be brought into the neo‑Duplessis fold.
mare 21:41 on 2022-07-24 Permalink
In a certain way we should hope the CAQ wins a *lot* of Montreal ridings so they can’t cut off Montreal from the provincial money tap anymore, as they do now.
I won’t vote for them, but neither will I for my current MNA, who voted with the CAQ for Bill 76. So I’m probably going to spoil my ballot or not vote at all, for the first time in my life. I hate the First Past The Post election system.
Kate 23:58 on 2022-07-24 Permalink
Is that Vincent Marissal, mare?
Also… do you mean Bill 96?
Kevin 09:27 on 2022-07-25 Permalink
Generations of Quebec politicians have been shortchanging Montreal. That’s not going to change until the regions have fewer MNAs.
Kate 11:06 on 2022-07-25 Permalink
There’s almost as little political will to change that, Kevin, as there is to bring in proportional representation.
Kevin 15:41 on 2022-07-25 Permalink
I believe Montreal will become an eleventh province before the regions get fewer MNAs.