If the result is what polls suggest, Quebec issues will loom large in
the next federal government, just as they have in this election.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/martin-patriquin-quebec-finds-separatist-threat-not-needed-for-clout?fbclid=IwAR2q0V8igvurV04oyWHuHQoBWItqmHLEvY3iiyb63gLGNmO8dUlmaAPkxHY
One of the longstanding existential worries of Quebec sovereignist movement is the province’s diminished political clout should the movement become passé. The thinking: remove the separatist threat and Quebec becomes a province like any other. Quebec must always be a threat to Canada in order to remain relevant in Canada, in other words.
The 43rd federal election campaign, which comes to a welcome end next week, has laid waste to this blinkered logic. A little more than one year after Quebecers themselves pushed the Parti Québécois (and therefore sovereignty) a little further into oblivion, Quebec has retained its outsized importance on the federal landscape.
First, consider that three of the four debates held over the last several weeks took place in Quebec. (Justin Trudeau couldn’t be bothered to show up to the Maclean’s/CityTV debate in Toronto last month.) To this apparently symbolic happenstance you can add this: Many of the most important electoral issues hashed out during those six hours of television directly involved Quebec.
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/martin-patriquin-quebec-finds-separatist-threat-not-needed-for-clout?fbclid=IwAR2q0V8igvurV04oyWHuHQoBWItqmHLEvY3iiyb63gLGNmO8dUlmaAPkxHY
One of the longstanding existential worries of Quebec sovereignist movement is the province’s diminished political clout should the movement become passé. The thinking: remove the separatist threat and Quebec becomes a province like any other. Quebec must always be a threat to Canada in order to remain relevant in Canada, in other words.
The 43rd federal election campaign, which comes to a welcome end next week, has laid waste to this blinkered logic. A little more than one year after Quebecers themselves pushed the Parti Québécois (and therefore sovereignty) a little further into oblivion, Quebec has retained its outsized importance on the federal landscape.
First, consider that three of the four debates held over the last several weeks took place in Quebec. (Justin Trudeau couldn’t be bothered to show up to the Maclean’s/CityTV debate in Toronto last month.) To this apparently symbolic happenstance you can add this: Many of the most important electoral issues hashed out during those six hours of television directly involved Quebec.
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