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Liberals set to form majority Quebec government (Socialists Crushed Alert)
BBC News ^ | 04/07/2014 | BBC News

Posted on 04/07/2014 9:32:03 PM PDT by goldstategop

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To: Heatseeker

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.


21 posted on 04/08/2014 12:05:27 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

22 posted on 04/08/2014 12:23:27 AM PDT by Squawk 8888 (I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
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The election centred on PQ's controversial Charter of Values, which would ban public employees from wearing religious items...

Sounds more like a charter of no-values to me.

23 posted on 04/08/2014 12:34:38 AM PDT by Vanders9
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Quebec's separatist socialist PQ got decisively routed by the right-center Liberals

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.

24 posted on 04/08/2014 3:01:17 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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Sounds more like a charter of no-values to me.

You are correct. Quebec has no values. If the province goes to complete sh*t economically and socially, it would be well deserved.

25 posted on 04/08/2014 3:12:02 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: goldstategop

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.


26 posted on 04/08/2014 4:16:54 AM PDT by gusty
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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.


27 posted on 04/08/2014 5:08:00 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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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.


28 posted on 04/08/2014 9:05:22 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like tractor.)
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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.


29 posted on 04/08/2014 3:58:13 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Always wanted to visit Quebec City,

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.

30 posted on 04/08/2014 4:42:16 PM PDT by Dartman (CDN PM Stephen Harper may not be perfect, but we don't have to be ashamed or embarassed of him.)
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