Sparring on second day of campaign
François Legault has been criticized for calling Dominique Anglade ‘that lady’ (cette madame) and the CAQ is demanding an apology from a PLQ candidate who said the CAQ are racist and xenophobic, and saying that insulting the CAQ is tantamount to insulting the entire Quebec people.
It’s going to be a long haul till October.
Meantime, Anglos find themselves adrift, with no party finding any advantage in being seen as sticking up for them – in fact, it would be bad policy for any party to be tarred as being overly kind to the anglos. Gosh it’s fun being the permanent black sheep.
Adding that the PQ is beating the language drum hard, especially over the percentage of people speaking French at home having dropped from 79% to 77.5%.
I still do not see how a government expects to rule over what language people speak in their own homes. The one thing they haven’t tried, because I think there’d be an unholy uproar, is encouraging Québécois couples (only francophone ones) to have more babies.
Kevin 11:57 on 2022-08-29 Permalink
In the past few days I’ve seen a dramatic increase in CAQ supporters admitting online that it’s all about revenge.
CE 12:20 on 2022-08-29 Permalink
What is about revenge? And revenge for what?
Kate 14:30 on 2022-08-29 Permalink
1760?
Ephraim 16:33 on 2022-08-29 Permalink
Don’t these idiots ever realize that Britain capturing Quebec was the BEST of two evils? If France had held on, Napoleon would have sold Quebec to the Americans as part of the Louisiana purchase and everyone would be speaking English only and have American law in place.
Kevin 20:42 on 2022-08-29 Permalink
@CE
Voting for the CAQ, along with Bill 96 and Bill 21, is revenge for the decades when francophones were oppressed by rich anglophones, and now it’s time for the francophones to punish the anglophones and allophones.
At least, according to people who post stuff on social media.
Ephraim 09:07 on 2022-08-30 Permalink
The rich anglophones weren’t created by language… they were created by the church that kept on telling people to stay on the farm and have children, rather than get into business.