Québec Liberals betray their own initiative in Social Enterprises

The Liberal Party of Québec has scrapped a long over-due funding increase, and in fact will phase out that funding all together, to the social enterprises of the nation, those organisations that help seniors with accomplishing their daily tasks. The service was meant to get a 3.5 million dollar injection of capital to help off-set the cost of the service to seniors which usually runs at about 18$ an hour, of which the recepient of the sevice usually pays around half.

Not only will that funding increase not materialise, but now Minister of Social Services Lise Thériault for the government has said that the funding will be allowed to run out completely in April 2010, and from then on the Social Enterprises will have to find their own funding.

This is a huge and disconcerting summersault. The older-generation has a right to be cared for after all they have contributed to society, and these services are highly esential to helping to maintain a Senior's sense of well-being and connectedness to the wider world. The Liberal Party proves once again that it is the party of big business and capitalism, rather than that of the people and social well-being.

Libellés : Libéraux, Politique, Québec

par Borges à 16:28

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Liberal-Péquiste Face-off: Immigration and Identiy

The Parti Québécois has revealed its proposed legistlative program, and in doing so has thrown down the gauntlet over the two issues most important to the Québécois electorate: National identity and immigration. Among the proposals include a sweeping reform of French language legistlation, mainly aimed to promote the use of la langue among new arrivals in the country.

The PQ plans to force immigrants to learn French before arriving in Québec, and thereafter forcing them to send their children to French-language day-care centres and eventually French CÉGEPS (the two secteurs of education not currently under the reglementation of the Charte de la langue française). The souverainiste party also wants new-comers to continue perfecting their French, and obliging them to join the French speaking business sector rather than working for Anglophone enterprises.

Over the issue of identity, the two parties are squaring off. The Liberal Party government of Québec is currently trying to push through legislation favourising policies that promote cultural diversity and accomodation to the particular needs of the cultural communities of the nation. The PQ for their part would like to see a bill passed underlining that which they feel is most imporant to the Québécois people: Laicité, the primacy of the French language, and the equality between the sexes.

Who will win this debate, at the heart of Québécois politics? Only time will tell...

Libellés : Accommodements raisonnables, la langue, La question nationale, Politique, Québec, Souverainistes

par Borges à 10:32

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What was forward for the Liberal Party?...anything but elections...

Liberal chief Michael Ignatieff seems to have learned his lesson: Canadians want everything, everything but another national election. This pearl was wisdom was apprendred after the 4 bi-elections this past November when his party came 3rd in each one. This electoral defeat followed the August threat of reversing the government with a motion of censure against the government. At the time, the country was still questioning if, and how, it would come through the economic downturn, now believed to be on its way out. The November defeat followed a Spring-Summer period of grace for the Liberals when they consistently outperformed the Tories in polls.

In the meantime, the party, and its leader, have promised to revitalise the party and put an ear to the ground in regards to the great concerns that Canadians hold in the areas of the economy, public service and government effectiveness. This is no small feat in a party as bogged in bureacratism and carearism as the next, where policy is made behind close doors, and flashy initiatives such as the Green Turn garner much attention, but lead to very little concrete support.

So the question must be asked, what way forward for the Liberal Party of Canada? Should they lean to the Left, endorsing NDP-style social democracy, or should they stay truly Liberal, and simply exploit the government's own blundering performance? Either way, it has a long and difficult road ahead if it is to gain support at the next elections, now tentatively slated for 2011 at the earliest.

Libellés : Libéraux, Politique, ROC, Économie

par Borges à 11:28

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Secularism and political correctness running rampant in Québec

The two main Québécois opposition parties, the nationalist Parti Québécois and the right-of-centre Action Démocratique du Québec have come out in support of a ban on all overtly religious symbols for those working in public service. The ban would include the ever more prevalent hijab (Muslim headscarf), the veil, the turban and the kirpan (a ritual knife carried by adherent Sikhs).

The proposed ban would be an outright attack on Cultural Communities which each year make a bigger and bigger contribution to the economic and demographic growth of the country. Though the parties claim that the ban is in the interests of laicité, the concept of secularism, it should be interpreted for what it is: a bulwark of extremism aimed at the denouncement of cultural differences in what is more and more a vibrant and culturally diverse nation.

Those that support the ban claim that the Quiet Revolution and its subsequent changes to Québécois society should have ousted all signs of religiosity from the public sector, that the country did not fight against the yoke of a militant and pervasive Catholicism just to be confronted with an Islamic upsurge in the country 40 years later.

Nothing could be further from the truth. To many Muslims, the hijab or veil is obligatory on them, and further more a representation of a faith that is deeply important to their very social being and psyche. To ban it would be a tragedy and would exclude many Muslim women from working to help provide the services that so many Québécois rely on.

Leil Bdeir, spokeswoman for Présence musulmane, believes that too many people misinterpret everything. «Laicité, that doesn't mean removing every religious symbol from the public sphere. Laicité, it is preventing the values of one religious group reigning supreme over another, its avoiding privelege of one group over another.» [19.12.09 Cyberpresse]

The question must be asked, what is behind this proposed ban? Is it a commitment to laicité, religious freedom, and secularism, or is it a step in the direction of xenophobia, Islamophobia, and social exclusion?

Libellés : Accommodements raisonnables, Politique, Québec

par Borges à 10:55

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Does economics justify climate change?

Albertan Premier Ed Stolmach has contested at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit that without the astronomical revenues from the tar sands of the province, the Canadian economy and the provincial coffres would be in dire straights. According to figures recently released, the oil sands help the province to contribute over 21 billion dollars in transfer payments to Ottawa, more than the entire defense budget of the nation.

It raises an interesting question, just how committed to mitigating climate change if it means that we will suffer economically. Destroying the environment is big business, and goes a long way towards funding the social programmes that all Canadians rely on. Let's be realistic: the mining of this country's natural resources is extremely lucrative, and without it the Canadian economy could very well collapse.

So, what way forward? Should the exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of the environment be curbed for the sake of moral highmindedness and sheer self preservation at the expense of the provincial purse strings?

Libellés : Environnement, Politique, ROC, Économie

par Borges à 10:47

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Provincial Premier Popularity Contest

A recent poll conducted by Angus Reid reveals the state of popularity of the nation's provincial Prime Ministers. It makes for interesting reading not least when you realise that the country's most and least popular Premiers are both Conservatives, with the most loved being Newfoundland and Labrador Prime Minister Danny Williams and the least liked being Ed Stolmach of Alberta.

The results are as follows:

Danny Williams (Con): Newfoundland and Labrador: 78%
Brade Wall (Sask. Party): Saskatchewan: 58%
Darrell Dexter (NDP): Nova scotia: 43%
Jean Charest (Lib): Québec: 32%
Greg Soulinger (NDP): Manitoba: 29%
Dalton McGuinty (Lib): Ontario: 18%
Ed Stolmach (Con): Alberta: 14%

It just goes to show that in Canadian politics, different shades of Left and Right can play well with the public, and that neither side is especially hated or loved. It's all about who can deliver, and how. Who do you think is the nations best Premier, and why?

Note: At the time of publication the information for PEI and British Columbia were not available

Libellés : Conservatives, Libéraux, NPD, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 13:08

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Torture of Afghan Detainees- Did the government ignore warnings

M. Richard Colvin, who spent over a year in Afghanistan as a diplomat for the Canadian government, has refutted government claims that there were no warnings that there was abuse of detainees in the Afghan prisons under the auspices of the Ottawa.

According to M. Colvin, he sent numerous reports during his tenure as Canadian diplomat in the country, which were systematically ignored by top officials in Afghanistan and Canada alike. The warnings were apparently very explicit, and casts a shadow on the Harper government which maintains that it was unaware of the human rights abuses taking place on their watch.

Could this issue finally be the tipping point which will bring down the Harper administration, after years of mismanagment, negligence and shadowy deal-making? Will the opposition parties step up and demand culpability for these agregious violations of the most basic rights, the very pretence for the continued presence of the Canadian military in Afghanistan? Only time will tell

Libellés : Conservatives, Droits, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 16:02

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Suspend parliament...again?

Rumours have begun circulating that the Prime Minister Stephen Harper will suspend parliament until after the Winter Olympics amid the firestorm over Afghanistan among other controversies. This would be the second time within a year that the PM has taken this course of action, as he made the same manouver last December amid the threats of a reversal of the government at the hands of a proposed Bloc supported Liberal-NDP coalition.

Is this a constutional mis-step, or simply the Prime Minister saving us all a lot of time wrangling over issues that won't be set right for quite a while. Parliament has done little actual work as of late, but should difficult times really be an excuse for the chief of government to shut down parliamentary proceedings until he feels it's the right time for action? Do the Canadian, Québécois, Acadien and First Nations along with the numerous cultural communities not deserve better from their elected government?

Libellés : Conservatives, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 14:22

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Make the wealthy and businesses pay!

The unions of Québec have taken a step forward in militancy over the past few days, demanding that the Liberal government of Jean Charest place to bill for the funding of state services and the economic recovery program firmly at the feet of the top earners and businesses of the country.

The Secretariate Intersyndical des Services Publiques which counts over 300 000 public sector workers mainly in education, healthcare etc. has also stepped in, proposing six measures to support the economy basically maintaining that priority should be placed on the maintenance and improving of public services rather than over-prioritising budgetary relief. It also proposes 9 concrete steps towards a more sane financing of the public sector:

• Renounce hikes in electicity bills
  
• Reclaim what is owed to Québec by the federal government ;
• Intensify the fight against tax evasion and offshore tax havens
  
• Increase mining revenues (adding 300 million to the provincial coffres)
  
• Raise taxes for those who earn the most (950 million) ;
• Introduce a tax on luxury goods
  
• Levy an additional tax on financial institutions (300 million)
  
• Apply a minimum duty on profit making enterprises (150 million) ;
• Place a limit on tax credits for businesses (250 million).

That's almost 2 billion dollars extra the could be put to use for the benefit of the Québécois and the economy! The Interprofessional Federation, mainly representing healthcare workers, has called on the government to make sure that those benefitting most from the economic recovery and the country's general prosperity pay their fare share, rather than placing the burden on the hardest hit and worst off working families who are struggling simply to make ends meet.

These measures should be supported wholeheartedly by those that purport to be leftist of any stage. It is only fair that those that have and continue to benefit from the country's prosperity pay their fair share to help those in need and continue to provide a decent standard of living and public services to all.

Libellés : Politique, Québec, Économie

par Borges à 10:41

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Spineless Layton betrays the party, holds grudge against the Liberals

In an interview with La Presse, Jack Layton, has defended his party's recent parliamentary actions in supporting the Conservative government in the EI confidence vote. While pontificating about his gesture of approval towards the Harper administration, he rejects the claim that he has gone against everything that the party claims to stand for, not to mention making himself and his organisation look like complete hippocrites for constantly attacking the Liberals for their continuous support of the government in no-confidence votes, until now that is...

The Liberal Party took a stand for the working class and those that have lost their jobs by fighting for a true reform for employment insurance and against the continuation of this government. Even as economists claim that green shoots are sprouting economically, the fact is that many thousands more will lose their jobs before the recession starts to lessen in intensity, and that means that Canada needs a comprehensive and generous program to ensure that families can continue to make ends' meet.

The New Democratic Party is nevertheless still the party with the closest links to the working class of Canada and its traditional organisations, the trade unions, however their position on this issue is a complete betrayal to that status. If people are expected to choose between Liberal and NDP, how can they when the two seem to mirror each other in policy and practice...?

Libellés : Conservatives, Libéraux, NPD, Politique, ROC

par Borges à 12:00

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In face of govenment represion, the Iranian working-class shows its heroic strength

On the occasion of Palestine Day in Iran, the Opposition, led by liberal-reformist Mir Hussein Mousavi, and former president Khatami, reared its head once more after months of an apparent bout of silence following the government crackdown on the opposition supporters and their protests after this summers elections. Quds Day (Palestine Day) is a government created holiday to help rally support for itself by showing off it's anti-Semite and «pro-Palestinian» character, however this year it was hijacked by marked violence between hard-line supporters of the current regime, and those that have had enough.

These events clearly demonstrate that the underground opposition movement is far from dead, and that the people of Iran are still motivated by a desire for a radical change in the way society is run. The important thing to remember is that Mir Hussein Mousavi and his entourage are only the catalysts for this desire, that in fact the popular support for the opposition is more a popular-rage against the government. The people of Iran need to channel their ambitions, their raw power, into more productive and militant forms of struggle, such as a revolutionary general strike, if real change is to be effected. Mousavi is not the answer, a change in faces of the president will mean nothing for the people of Iran, short of a symbolic victory for the limited democracy that the Ayatollah so «graciously» permits them.

par Borges à 11:30

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SAFE: The Conservative Government will survive

Thanks to the approval of the Bloc Québécois and the NDP concerning the confidance vote regarding the EI reforms proposed by the Conservatives, there will not be another general election in Canada for now, much to the charign of the Liberals...or is it.

In reality, neither the Bloc nor the NDP is ready to fight an election, and to be fair, Canadians have had quite enough of elections, considering that there have been 4 in the past 5 years. However the Liberals took a principles position during this past scene in the EI saga, wanting to topple the government over its flimsy proposals for reform and relief.

Now that the vote of confidence is sorted though, it seems that the Bloc Québécois is dragging it's feet on the passing of the law, while the other parties, including the Liberals, seem to want as quick an ascendance as possible for what is agreed to be an extremely pressing and necessary reform to the regime of unemployment benefits, both short-term and long-term. The Bloc contests that there is too much unknown, too much not spelled out in the plans, too many unanswered questions, too many left out. If that's how they feel, maybe they should have supported the Liberals...

Libellés : Conservatives, ROC, Économie

par Borges à 13:59

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In light of the recession, Labour must be the party of the working class

The current mood in the trade unions, as reflected with the Chequers summit on Friday and the TUC Congress this week, is one of incresing militancy. If that can filter through to the Labour Party itself, if some of that ethos can be absorbed by the LP then there is a chance that it will take less of a hammering in the upcoming general election.

Today Gordon Brown will for the first time have used the word «cuts», in his adress to the TUC conference. In order to capitalise on the Tories and their «foaming at the mouth» he will have to make it clear that jobs, health, education and other social essentials will be protected, FULL STOP, NO MATTER WHAT.

Brown will also have to expose the Tories and what their real plans are without sounding like a hypocrite (which we all know he is) for endorsing some public spending cuts himself. This will be a tough balancing act, but I think that if the public can see that the Labour Party will at least try to protect their hard fought gains of the working class then there is a chance. Brown has correctly identified waste and inneficiancy as the targets of his spending cuts, while ring-fencing health, education, and front-line policing, something that the Conservative Party has recently seemed to reject.

As the row over spending heats up, it will have to be the base of Labour, that is the working class and their organisations, the trade unions, that must force the party left and make sure that it continues to embody the ethos of a social-democratic party of mass labour.

Libellés : G.B., Labour

par Borges à 21:15

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A multiculturalism for Québec

If Canada's policy is Multiculturalism, that is, the allowing a distinct group of people to maintain their ways of living within the larger majority culture, has been a cornerstone of home policy for so long, then why has it not been conceded that the province of Québec, encompassing the distinct nation of the Québécois, should not be offered reasonable accommodation in terms of their own application of multiculturalism and related policies?

Should the distinct nation of the Québécois, anchored on the territory of the Québécois territory, in that itself actualises tens of thousands of new arrivals every year, not be given a reasonable amount of autonomy in the areas of culture, integration, and language assimilation?

The Québécois population has, with what some would say good reason, rejected the doctrine of multiculturalism, claiming that it undermines the fragile Québécois identity already threatened on all sides by international conglomerates, media, culture, etc. They see it as essential that immigrants integrate and accept the values that the Québécois hold dear. In fact, there is a government project where as when one enters Québec as an immigrant one signs a statement of common values such as

• The primacy of the French language
• A free and democratic society
• A secular State
• A pluralist society
• A society grounded in laws and rights that garauntee equality
• Gender equality
• The excercise of rights is not to be to the harm of others and should be for the general well being

Most would say that the majority of these are Canadian values as well, however these values, though written in a similar manner, take on a different meaning for the Québécois. They are concerned about individual rights, as well as the betterment of society. The right to speak French is at the heart of many people's concerns, and that is the main tusk of the multiculturalism issue.

Just how far should immigrants be pushed to gain knowledge of thier adopted country's language, what should be made available, and how should community languages are accomodated. Québec, though progresive in many areas, and a very accepting and welcoming place, takes a more hard-line approach towards language than in the ROC.

The answers are not hear, but what do you think? Should Québec be allowed to excercise its own multiculturalism, within the Canadian multiculturalist project?

Libellés : Accommodements raisonnables, Politique, Québec, ROC

par Borges à 10:42

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New Labour: Go Back to Basics!

This country is facing disaster. Finances are wrecked, cuts are coming, services will suffer. There is no way out of this impasse within the market framework, that has been made clear. PM Brown, Leader of the Opposition David Cameron, Chancellor Darling and Shadow Chancellor George Osborne all assure us that we can get through this if we pull together and find some sort of political consensus.

Labour is dropping in the polls, trailing far the Conservatives, neither the government nor the Official Opposition have revealed how they intend to finance the country in the future, and neither is willing to talk straight about the cuts that either government will be forced to make under the current system.

They do not realise that no working-class will give up their rights and privileges, not for any political scheme, not for any public debt. The Winter of Discontent was a clear indicator of the British people in the face of crushing economic defeat. It was ironic that this was during a Labour government. 30 years down the line we find ourselves in a similar situation.

Labour has started to pre-empt the election campaign by launching a non-manifesto «Building Britain's Future» with no less than 14 competences under proposal, including a massive housing building program, a legal obligation for the government's child poverty commitments, healthcare «entitlements», jobs or training for all school leavers etc. Honestly this gives one hope that perhaps the government is listening to the concerns of ordinary Brits who fear their jobs, their homes, their health, their children's opportunities, lost.

However this does not go far enough .The Labour Party is still no longer committed to the nationalisation of the public services that are essential to everyone's well-being. The large scale industries, all public sector enterprises, must be but under democratic workers control, so that they can be held accountable for their actions and so that the public may decide how thier money is used. Only in this way can we work our way out of the crisis, when we start putting the well being of the many rather than the profits of the few, first.

Schools- Public and well funded
Healthcare- No place for private sector
Child poverty- Eliminate now
Unemployment- Massive program of public works
Infrastructure- Massive program of public works
Education- Progressive restructuring of the education system to make sure it is fair, effective, and the valued asset that it is.
Banking and Industry- Nationalise the essential sectors of the economy under workers control

These demands should not shock any Labour supporter, they are the core of what the Labour Party was found on...

Libellés : G.B., Labour

par Borges à 12:25

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End the Monarchy now! Reform the Senate immediately- Abolir la monrachie! Réformer le Sénat maintenant!

In a recent poll conducted by a Canadian Television company CTV reveals that over 65% of Canadians want the monarchy done away with. This shows the completely progressive nature of the Canadian people who want nothing to do with an out-dated remnant of feudalism which persists in the modern capitalist Canadian federative state. The Queen and her representative Michaelle-Jean, not to mention the provincial governors, who do nothing but represent a long ago broken link between the United Kingdom's monarchy and her Parliament.

However the Monarchy is not the only feudal remnant in the Canadian political system, and that is the appointed Senate, which has much power, and yet is completely unaccountable to the people that they are making the laws for. The Senate should be reformed completely and modelled on more democratic lines so that the officials are elected, by what form the voting to be made taken by Canadians.
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Dans un sondage récent révélé par le chaîne de télévision canadienne CTV démonte que 65 percent de canadiens veulent l'abolition de la monarchie. Cela démonte la nature progressive de la population canadienne qui n'en veulent rien avec une relique féodale archaïque qui n'a pas de lien avec la fédération capitaliste moderne canadienne. La Reine et ses répresentants comme Michaelle Jean, et les gouverneurs provincuax, coûtent cher la population canadienne.

Or, la monarchie n'est pas la seule rélique féodale dans le système politique canadien, et cela est le Sénat appointé, qui a beaucoup de pouvoir, mais est complètement inexplicable au peuple pour ceux qu'ils font les lois. Le Sénat doit être reformé complètement et modelé sur un principe plus démocratique pour que les sénateurs soient élus, par quelque forme choisie par le peuple canadien.

Libellés : Québec, ROC

par Borges à 10:32

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Brown betrays the working class with latest Healthcare proposals

The New Labour government of Gordon Brown has unveiled its latest commitment to the destruction of the National Health Service, that is the commercialisation of critical treatments disguised as a gesture for patients rights. The new responsibilities of the National Health Service include:

• An operation within 18 weeks of patients first seeing their GP
• A free health check-up for all at the age of 40
• Treatment from an NHS dentist
• Die at home if they suffer from a long-term medical condition
• See a cancer specialist within two weeks
• Be treated in accident & emergency departments within four hours.

It is the first and penultimate pledges where the government seeks to allow the encroachment of the private sector onto an already burdened NHS instead of actually improving it and providing for the next generation of healthcare that is equitable, efficient, and free at the point of need. The proposals allow, and in some cases would necessitate, the use of private sector treatment where NHS care is lacking, paid for by the government budget. Cancer patients and those in need of operations could be forced to use private healthcare services instead of their right to access on the National Health Service.

In fact, the British Medical Association, which is holding its annual conference in Liverpool this week, will be tabling an industrial-action motion which could provoke strike action over the governments proposals to widen private sector involvement in the health service. While the doctor's leaders are begging for them to back down, the physicians mood is militant and they can see clearly that what these new plans mean is the beginning a large-scale corruption of the NHS by the private sector.

The NHS was a hard-fought gain made by the working class and pioneered by its political organisation, the Labour Party. That was over 60 years ago. To see a Labour government opening up the health service to market forces in a way which Lady Thatcher would never have dared is truly outrageous and a clear betrayal to the working-class base of the Labour Party. And yet this is just one in a string of anti-Socialist, anti-working class measures taken by the New Labour government.

What is needed is a return to the principles of the NHS, to an equitable society, to socialism!

Libellés : G.B., Socialisme

par Borges à 10:53

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Get used to minority governments... and you can blame the Bloc!

In times past minority governments were seen as a rare event in Canadian political history, lately, they seem more like the rule. In the past decade we have seen 3 minority governments, with a fourth one likely after the next election. In fact, political commentators are now projecting that minority governments will govern the country for a majority of the time, mainly due to the neutralising effect of the Bloc Québécois, and the unity of the Conservative Party (as opposed to its divisions during the first years of the Bloc, which guaranteed the Liberals of Jean Chrétien 3 consecutive victories).

Québec has 75 ridings and the Bloc regularly wins a majority of these, sending a progressive, though souverainiste, voice to Ottawa. Though forever condemned to a back-seat role in Canadian politics precisely because of their constitutional position and more importantly their localised level of support (only Alberta residents support the Bloc outside of Québec), the Bloc Québécois nevertheless has succeeded in making its influence felt in the House of Commons, providing support and leadership on a number of issues that are important not only to the Québécois but to Canadians as a whole.

Currently Bloc is polling at around 38 percent in Québec, the Liberals at 35 percent, and 15 percent for the Conservatives, 10 percent for the NDP. Compare that to Ontario, with its 106 members in the Parliament, where Liberals and Conservatives are neck and neck in the polls at around 40 percent each, with most of the Conservative gains being made at the expense of the New Democratic Party and the Green Party of Canada, a much more traditional state of affairs in Canada, and one that, in general, largely reflects the national scene, where the Lib-Con split is only 4 percentage points at 36 v. 32 percent.

This demonstrates the impact that the Bloc has in siphoning off support from the Liberals and Conservatives (depending on who is in favour) in Québec. Far from serving their original purpose, that of advancing the cause of independence in the Canadian Parliament, the Bloc actually prevents issues important to the Québécois from being resolved, those constitutional issues which constitute a large part of the grievances for many indépendantistes, though minority governments have sometimes managed to push through impressive reforms in other areas.

One wonders how much longer the political maturing process of the Bloc Québécois will take before they can become sensible players in the House of Commons, and start considering the possibility of forming coalitions or at least being an unofficial partner in a progressive minority government. Until then, we can take a moment to appreciate the role of the Bloc Québécois and its role in Canadian politics...

Libellés : Politique, ROC

par Borges à 11:45

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Ignatieff drops in popularity among Québécois

The Liberal Party of Canada's newly crownded leader has since his rise to power polled strongly among the Québécois electorate, however recently his popularity has fallen by 10 percent, from around 45 percent believing him to be the best choice for prime minister, to a much lower, comparitively, 35 percent. This may have something to do with the Bloc Québécois sustained attacks against Ignatieff, claiming that he opposed C-307 which would have extend the Charter of the French Language (Loi 101) to all federal undertakings in the province, as well as a commitment generally not to interfere at all in its implemetion.

The vote came and the Liberals and Tories voted against it so it's pretty much a done deal. But that doesn't mean that this is the end of his fall in popularity. The Bloc has a way of trying to convince the electorate that no one else care's about Québec, and to be honest attacking him on the issue of French langue was brilliant. This issue only has so much steam,but it is yet to be seen whether or not M. Ignatieff can regain the support of the Québécois people.
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Le nouveau chef du Parti Libéral du Canada a vu une grande hausse de sa popularité au Québec depuis son couronnement, or récemment les répondants des sondages misent moins confiance au leader libéral. En avril, il a gagné 45 percent des Québécois sur la question «qui serait le meilleur Premier Ministre». Maintenant on voit une chute de 10 points à 35 percent. Peut-être cet effondrement est à cause des pubs anti-libéraux du Bloc. Le Bloc soulignait ce dernier mois le fait que les libéraux, comme les conservateurs, voteraient contre C-307, un projet de loi qui répandrait les provisions de la Charte de la langue française à tous entreprises et projets fédéraux, et préviendrait l'interférence d'Ottawa dans l'implémentation de la Charte sur territoire québécois.

Quand le jour du vote est venu, tel que prévu, les libéraux et torys ont bloqué le projet, maintenant c'est fini, c'est ça. Or, cela n'est pas nécessairement la fin de sa chute de popularité. Le Bloc joue toujours sa tactique habituelle, celui qui essaye de convaincre la populace québécoise que personne ne s'occupe le Québec sauf que le Bloc, et que le ROC est un ennemi du Québec. Il était brillant pour lui attaquer sur l'enjeu de la langue, qui est au cœur des préoccupations des Québécois. Cet enjeu essoufflera bientôt, mais il n'est pas clair si la chute de M. Ignatieff suivra ou non.

Libellés : la langue, Libéraux, Politique, Québec

par Borges à 15:27

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