The Majority as Identity Group

Steyn On-line ^ | October 3, 2018 | Mark Steyn

[Twotone]

The sold-out Mark Steyn Club Cruise departed Quebec City just as a wild tsunami of an election result crashed on the Plains of Abraham and washed away the National Assembly. On Monday François Legault's brand new party, the CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec), won 74 out of 125 seats and became the first government in half-a-century to be neither Liberal nor separatist. The CAQ is described as "center-right", but that term doesn't really cover it: Like many of the emerging parties in the new Europe - from Sweden to Italy, France to Hungary - M Legault concluded that the sweet spot on the spectrum lay in being both fiscally protective and socially protective. That's to say, these new parties are not "center-right" in terms of Milton Friedman economics - they do not seriously challenge expectations of the big welfare state - but they are nationally assertive on the cultural front.

And so it was that Quebec's new premier, in his first press conference, pledged to cut immigration by twenty per cent and to use the Notwithstanding clause to uphold the government's ban on the niqab in the public service. Once again we see a clear difference between the English world (America, Britain, anglo-Canada) and the rest of the west (continental Europe, Quebec) when it comes to the rights of the majority versus the provocations of Islam.

[ifinnegan]

Vive les Habitants

[Deplorable American1776]

Great job, Quebec....