Canada Ping!
Posted on 04/07/2014 9:32:03 PM PDT by goldstategop
Quebec's Liberal Party is set to form a majority provincial government, routing a bid by Quebec's main separatist party for their own majority.
Liberals have won 41% of the vote, with nearly all ballots counted.
Parti Quebecois (PQ) leader Pauline Marois has resigned in response to the crushing defeat, with her party only obtaining 25%.
She dissolved the PQ-led minority government last month, after coalition partners blocked the party's agenda.
Liberal leader Philippe Couillard will now become the province's premier.
The election centred on PQ's controversial Charter of Values, which would ban public employees from wearing religious items, and a revivial of the debate over Quebec's possible independence from Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
As a trained neurosurgeon, incoming Premier Phillippe Couillard is the antithesis of the average politician. But if he can turn Quebec around, he’ll be forgiven his failings. The Liberals have to show conservatives can govern and they have five years to show they’re up to the challenge.
There’s hope.
Canada Ping!
Sounds more like a charter of no-values to me.
The liberals are also socialists. How can anyone call them "center right"? It was the liberals who introduced the hated language laws in quebec. The PQ made it worse, but the liberals were the pioneers. There is no conservative right in Quebec because the conservative right left the province long ago.
You are correct. Quebec has no values. If the province goes to complete sh*t economically and socially, it would be well deserved.
The Liberals have to also show that they are not as corrupt as the last time around. Too many of them were too close to members of La Cosa Nostra.
it’s pretty nice, just don’t speak english there, I’ve had problems there.
I resolved them before it got out of hand, but I had to intimidate their “leader” before he got too brave.
I love Quebec - so many beautiful places - and its people - very friendly in my experience, even the francophones, especially if you make the effort to use what little French you may know. It’s a shame that decades of socialist policies and separatism have set its economy back so much, although Quebecois have only themselves to blame for that, of course.
The party does have a nationalist wing. There is a concern with protecting the French language and Quebec culture on a predominantly English-speaking continent. But those goals can be ensured without breaking up Canada. In the eyes of many Quebecois, the separatist solution is far too extreme - the Canadian federal state effectively protects them through its structure, language treatment and minority rights.
Mrs. D-man and I spent a week there about 6 or 7 years ago. I had always wanted to see it. We loved it. The only French either of us remember is what we learned in school a l-o-o-ong time ago. Back when we were in school, they actually taught Canadian history, that's why we wanted to go.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.