24 August 2019

Don Macpherson: The bluewashing of the Quebec Liberal Party

By proposing a law on "interculturalism," the Quebec Liberals have legitimized the principle of new restrictions on minority rights.

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/don-macpherson-the-bluewashing-of-the-quebec-liberal-party?fbclid=IwAR2w7V4K-r9MuFOsEH6mNJDVMCLcWcV7SpT19kg_1-jqg1_iIOFgEWNhyZ8

As if Quebec politics wasn’t rancorously polarized enough already, the supposedly inclusive provincial Liberals, of all parties, have added not one, but two new divisive identity issues to the agenda.

With the apparent approval of most of their party elders, including all the declared and potential candidates for the vacant Liberal leadership, the party’s youth wing last weekend adopted resolutions calling for a Quebec internal constitution and a law on “interculturalism.”

The constitution would be written by a representative constituent assembly. Since federal politicians refuse to provide another political crisis in Quebec over constitutional reform, the Liberals would produce their own ...

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