Bloc head deplores Montreal’s mixity
Bloc head Yves-François Blanchet says Montreal is awful because it’s so multilingual and mixed‑up and that it should be one culture, one nation with the rest of Quebec. He’s determined to make us all into Bloc voters.
carswell 16:18 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
Remember the slogan La fierté a une ville : Montréal?
Am beginning to think it needs an update: L’intolérence a une province : le Québec
Chris 16:22 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
Sure, paint the whole province as agreeing with one politician. Just like how all Palestinians agree with Hamas, am I right?
carswell 16:37 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
As much as I enjoy triggering them, I normally ignore posters who assume the worst about other posters (and often put words in their mouths) and whom I suspect are trolls. But I’ll make an exception this one time: It’s not just one politician. It’s at least two and possibly four of Quebec’s major political parties and a large chunk of self-proclaimed nationalists whose message to anglos and allos is either “your community has no right to exist” or, among the less radical, simply “Tais-toi et sois belle.”
Kate 16:53 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
Chris, it’s Blanchet in that article who sees the rest of Quebec as a single unified culture – not the CP writer, and not me.
Chris 17:28 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
Kate, my comment was to carswell. Yes, Blanchet is guilty of that, as you say. Of course, that’s not mutually exclusive to my point.
carswell, indeed, it’s not just one politician, it’s many; but it’s also far from everyone in Quebec thinking this way. What words did I put in your mouth? You said “L’intolérence a une province : le Québec”. To continue my analogy, what you would think of the slogan “Antisemitism has a state: Palestine”? After all, it’s not just one Palestinian politician that thinks that way, it’s many. Perhaps it was not your intention, but your comment, read straightforwardly, is sweepingly broad and denigrating to many.
Ian 19:17 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
The problem here is that Blanchet does really presume to speak for all of “real” Quebec.
Uatu 20:43 on 2024-01-14 Permalink
I don’t care. Now what is the policy for solving ER waiting times and the family doctor shortage from the Bloc?
PatrickC 10:03 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
“Bloc head”: nice one!
Kevin 10:12 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
Montreal is for the people who live there.
People who move to the regions have chosen not to have a say in how Montrealers live.
Ephraim 11:20 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
There is a way to fix this… just like SIngapore, we could go for an independent Montreal. Because he’s admitting that we have a different culture and language… all the reasons for independence 😀
Kate 12:49 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
Ephraim, you must know that since the PQ first came to power, there have been sporadic calls for Montreal to become its own city‑state. Nothing makes a dyed‑in‑the‑wool Quebec nationalist angrier than this suggestion.
carswell 12:58 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
Correct me if I’m wrong but, alarmed by all the talk about a Montreal city-state around the time of the 1980 referendum, the PQ government quickly passed legislation making such an outcome illegal and putting municipalities completely under the province’s thumb.
Ian 16:38 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
During the last referendum I was going around saying that not only should Montreal separate but all the boroughs should become citys-states like pre-unification Italy. One “oui” guy got so mad he sputtered through his beer “You can’t just break up a country like that!”
Ephraim 19:28 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
@Kate – Then they should know better than to point out that Quebec’s culture, language and even religion and Montreal’s culture, language and religious beliefs differ from the rest of Quebec. Because if it is… we have a clear reason and right to leave.
Ian 20:17 on 2024-01-15 Permalink
Good luck getting any of the federal parties to support it, though. Their cowardice in the face of Québec nationalism is remarkable.
Montreal isn’t Singapore, it’s Macau at best. We’re only allowed to exist until we become inconvenient, and the rest of the world will whistle and walk away when the larger political body takes over becasue they are scared of having any backlash.