Quebec Premier Francois Legault responds to reporters' questions after Bill 96, a legislation modifying Quebec's language law, was voted, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at the legislature in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
The Duplessis era is called, in many history books, the “Grande Noirceur”: The Great Darkness. It was followed by a flowering of accomplishment known as the Quiet Revolution. An opening up of Quebec after those years of darkness. With Legault, we’ve been watching the premier of La Grande Noirceur, Partie Deux.
Like Doug Ford, François Legault is strongly occupying the centre-right and seems set to coast to an easy victory in the fall. He has every reason to be confident. The polls are strongly in his favour. The four opposition parties are perfectly divided. He rules the roost and he knows it. For example, the law unilaterally changes the BNA Act and purports to remove the equality of English and French before the courts in Quebec. The same equality rights are guaranteed for franco-Manitobans.The Supreme Court cases dealing with both Quebec and Manitoba minority language rights now are a rock solid part of Canada’s constitutional edifice.
Instead of going forward for Montreal to become a cosmopolitan, which we have the title to Toronto on a platter. Legault has a fear of losing the French language?
👏 IMO: Conservatism is the modern-day equivalent of the medieval church - It fights science. It protects ignorance. It excludes. It now embraces the lunacy of PierrePoilievre, francoislegault and LeslynLewis, plunging us into the fabled bliss of ignorance. JeanCharest_
🌹 Pandering to a base full of hate and an irrational fear of losing their language. Going after organized religion however, is an integral part of getting society away from illogical beliefs and immoral harmful ideologies.🤔
Cam they just leave already?