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Klasie Kraalogies · 09-04-2012, 02:33 PM

Just to emphasize the point that not everybody here is American ....

Voters in Quebec are at the polls today to elect their Provincial government - and if the opinion polls are correct, the Separatists (Parti Quebecois) under Pauline Marois will get back into power, possibly with a majority. The Liberals will be ousted, and it is a race between them and the centre-right Coalition Avenir Quebec (under Francois Legault) who gets to be the official opposition.

For the record, the PQ is ethnocentric (obviously), with Social Democratic policies with respect to the economy etc. The Liberals under Jean Charest are bit like Clinton democrats.

Why should Americans care? Well, most of the Northeast runs on Quebec electricity. And if the long term strategy of the PQ pays off, and they get a referendum which they win, you'll have an additional neighbour to your north, one that is not enamored of "Anglophones".

Greg from Utopia · 09-04-2012, 08:30 PM

Well, it looks like the PQ have carried the day. And at their head, another seulement-en-francais bigot who won't speak English.

I'd be interested to see how Quebec would fare as an independent state... or even the fifty-first state lol.

**RobMille** · 09-04-2012, 08:58 PM

I tend to hold Quebec separatists jagoffs against all Canadians.

Klasie Kraalogies · (This post was last modified: 09-05-2012 10:38 AM by Klasie Kraalogies.)

So, the PQ won, but with a slim minority (PQ - 54 seats, Liberals 50, CAQ 19, QS 2). But what is more disturbing is a shooting that took place at the PQ vistory event - with one fatality.

The PQ is anti-immigrant, wants to ban the wearing of all religious symbols except crosses (and those can't be too big), wants to expand language laws, and follows a socialist economic model.

Of course, Quebec never signed the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but it still applies. One wonders who will have the balls to stand up and say ENOUGH!