• Quebec elects CAQ majority government
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https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/quebec-elects-caq-majority-government-1.4115989
He has promised to reduce the number of immigrants entering the province from 50,000 to 40,000 and said he would require them to pass a French language and values test within three years of their arrival. Interesting, I feel this isn't going to go well.
Probably one of the less controversial things on their agenda. Quebec is more french than the actual french. As a canadian citizen living in quebec, I'd most certainly fail that test though,
How is that legal for a province to do? A GOP stronghold state in the US can't even do that.
Hopefully the CAQs in your government are better than the ones in ours.
Because Quebec is allowed more autonomy than other provinces in Canada.
When we elected the CAQ, we also said yes to oil and hydrocarbons exploitation. We also said "yes" to larger highways and a third link to Quebec City. Because more room for more cars = solving the traffic issue. Putting strength into public transport would have been stupid, right? Legault also said he was going to reform the voting system to one such as mixed-member proportional representation. The idea was tossed at the very end of the first debate. However, since he has that sweet sweet taste of majority, watch him pull a Trudeau and bail on the idea. And let's not forget that awful "test of values" mentionned by other users above which may or may not seperate families. We don't know yet. I did not like their platform at all. However, by trowing the word "change", Legault seduced the population and launched himself into office. Change doesn't always mean for the better however. I want to get off Mr.CAQ's Wild Ride.
I wonder if the result was affected by the Federal Governments publication of the USMCA details (at least in any significant way), since they were on the same day. Not that I think the Quebec Liberals had a chance even before they were released
Quebec is essentially a country within a country.
Are they going to offer free French lessons to the newly arrived immigrants or just have them figure it out 🤔
I think he said they would offer free French classes, but then again, don't know if they're going to go along with that.
Well it sadly ended the Quebec nationalist and pro-Independence stereotype for while. As the other two Pro-Independent nationalist parties still have some seats, especially now collapse Parti Québécois is now deduced to 9 seats. And now its complete with having an Autonomist party won majority that may now want to create new referendum of demanding more political Autonomy for province. Yep, Especially they have their own version of French language as Quebec French is more little complex than Standard French.
Quebec even has a bit of a different legal system because of its French heritage, the Canadian Supreme Court has 1/3 of its members from Quebec to handle this.
Otherwords, He's more right-wing and purer Quebecer French version of both Trudeau and Obama all into once. Great, just great...
Funnily enough, the polls never predicted a government with majority these elections. Caught us off guard, I suppose.   See, the problem with the CAQ (or rather, the opportunity, depending on your POV) is that they came at a time where people were getting sick of 15 years of stagnation on behalf of a heavily federalist liberal party, known as the PLQ. The liberal's game plan never seems to change: charm the population by assuring that they are in fact not a separatist party. Montreal falls in love with the idea every year. Toss in a "we're not going to tax the rich" promise and boom. Easy as pie.   Enter Legault, a man who saw the general fatigue of the population. He saw a dying party, the PQ, who lost it all after throwing an election when they had minority, hopping for majority. This, without counting the fact that they were switching leader every other week. Claiming to be a nationalist and to butt head with Ottawa without any need for independence seemed to be that new option people were striving for. His position was great for this election; but in my opinion, I can't say the same about his platform.   I worry first and foremost about the health of our environment and of our democracy. I'm having a hard time believing that the CAQ will tackle these issues correctly, if at all. I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best. But what with him getting majority, this might make things a little more difficult.   Still, I would love to hear from CAQ voters and understand their position. What is it that they offer that swayed you into voting for them?
More division. Canada as a nation tends to be pretty unified, with the exception of Quebec, but we've now lost our symbolic and economic capital of Ontario to Trump-lite, and a right wing government has taken the reigns of Quebec which is only going to further divide us. I'm not too surprised by a nationalistic government winning in Quebec, but the combination of all these major right-wing victories is starting to make me scratch my head a bit. Trudeau is virtually guaranteed to win the next election due to the split in Conservative votes and how shitty Andrew Scheer is, so it seems to me like forces unknown have turned to dividing us from within, rather than try to flip the federal government. Doug Ford and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives were already under fire during the election for their use of bots to promote Ford and bash Wynne and Horwath, and they've been utilized nationally to attack Liberal beliefs in general for quite some time now. This all comes on the heels of the explosion of "Proud Boys" and Jordan Peterson, so it's pretty clear that this is another orchestrated tear down of a liberal nation in the Western world. I'm sick of this shit
Yes Nationalistic in provincial level (Quebec > Canada) but this Party just promoting of make Quebec more like Scotland or Wales in UK through achieving political autonomy within Canada than leave Canada like other nationalist parties in province.
My point was less about what they are planning to do, and more about how what they are planning to do will in turn destabilize us at a time when we really can't afford to be destabilized. Quebec gets a lot of shit from non French Canadians, most of it completely unwarranted and borderline racist, and we genuinely do need to sit down with and figure out a permanent solution since the October Crisis never truly ended, it just subsided; I just don't think now is particularly the best time...
Fuck Francois Legault and his party, I work with an immigrant coworker and a good portion of our customers are immigrants. A majority are Arab (the rest are usually French, Mexicans or Chinese) and the only people that don't speak either french or english are older folks but they usually have their son or daughters with them to translate. Failing that, we're still able to communicate with a mixture of simple words, a lot of pointing and hand gestures and they usually try to be polite. I've also literally never met teens or young adults that couldn't speak either french or english. Immigrants being a problem is a manufactured idea by the right. How are people supposed to integrate if we never let them come in the first place? The coworker I mentionned is a mom in her mid-50s and she didn't now much french or english when she arrived 5 years ago (she's a Syrian Armenian refugee) but now her french is pretty decent and she's trying her hand at english. When we talk about Québec culture she always mention how nicer the work and the people are here and that while she misses her former home she's glad to be here. It's not unlikely she'd be dead by now if she wasn't allowed to immigrate here.
Both Trudeau and Obama have way more charisma than this guy though.
Yea your'e right but I think about him that he could consider somewhat French Canadian version of Jean-Marie Le Pen from National Front (or currently National Rally) too.
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