Living in Quebec French origin people, leading into chaos the world’s most peaceful country Canada. The people of Canada do not want people tearing their country apart by people born in Lyon or Paris.
A Guman was arrested after shooting two people, one of them fatally, at the victory speech of Quebec’s Pauline Marois, whose separatist party is projected to win polls in the Canadian province.
Another person was seriously wounded in the incident late on Tuesday, as Marois was hustled offstage by bodyguards. She later returned to the podium, visibly shaken but unharmed, and quickly concluded her remarks.
The shooting came as media projections showed Marois’s Parti Quebecois ousting Premier Jean Charest’s Liberals from power, which would make Marois, 63, the French-speaking Canadian province’s first female prime minister.
The alleged gunman was quickly arrested after firing a rifle into the crowded concert hall in the provincial capital Montreal, police said. The man, in his 50s, is also believed to have started a fire at the venue.
“This is a homicide investigation. The death was confirmed at the scene. The motive is unknown at this time,” the Montreal police said on Twitter.
Caught on camera during the arrest, the alleged gunman shouted: “The English are waking up!” apparently referring to fears of Francophone domination of the English-speaking minority in an independent Quebec.
The Parti Quebecois favours independence from mostly English-speaking Canada, but is not expected to immediately pursue secession.
Shortly before the shooting, however, Marois had said that “the future of Quebec is to be a sovereign country”.
The party’s victory came after allegations of corruption and months of nightly student protests over a planned tuition hike, with polls showing widespread dissatisfaction with nine years of Liberal rule.
Several polling stations were still reporting, but it appeared that Marois’s party will lead a minority government, having secured around 32 per cent of the vote, only narrowly ahead of the Liberals.
But Charest’s career appeared to be in ruins after he was beaten in his hometown of Sherbrooke by PQ candidate Serge Cardin, who secured 42.41 per cent of votes to the incumbent’s 34.7 per cent.
Despite a strong record on the economy and a solid campaign, Charest – only the second Quebec leader since the 1950s to have served three terms – failed to excite voters. His tactics had included fanning fears over independence.
Turnout was strong, with nearly six million voters casting ballots for 125 MPs, but 40 races were still too close to call late on Tuesday.
All Canadians not just Quebec voters have an interest in avoiding such a retrograde political development.
At the same time, we cannot dispute that there are principled reasons for federalist Quebecers to vote against Jean Charest’s incumbent Liberals, who have been in power since April 2003. The Premier has handled many files well, and we admire his insistence on seeing through the province’s needed university tuition increases, even in the face of large-scale student protests. But in our view, his reputation never truly recovered from his initial refusal — sustained over two years — to call an inquiry into corruption within Quebec’s construction industry, and the many related allegations of political bribery. This corruption serves as an effective tax on all Quebecers, since it translates into massively inflated construction costs for needed projects.
Even when Mr. Charest did call for such an inquiry, he initially refused to grant it full powers to subpoena witnesses and compel testimony. It was only the threat of an internal party mutiny that made Mr. Charest relent. The whole episode made it seem as if the Liberals had secrets to hide, and that the Premier was more concerned with protecting those secrets than cleaning out corruption.
Moreover, Mr. Charest has been no great friend to Anglos, a constituency his Liberals have taken for granted for decades. As Don Macpherson of Montreal’s Gazette has noted, Mr. Charest appointed the first education minister in his party’s history unable to speak English (Line Beauchamp). And in a sop to French-language purists, he recently campaigned on a promise to push the federal government to extend the provisions of Quebec’s notorious Bill 101 to federal institutions (before vaguely backpedalling on the issue on the same day).
In past elections, Quebec federalists, Anglos included, would have no choice but to swallow their misgivings, and vote Liberal — or else opt for a third party with little hope of victory. But not this time.
The newly formed Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), led by 55-year-old businessman François Legault, is a federalist party whose platform emphasizes nuts-and-bolts policy issues such as cleaning up sleaze in Quebec’s National Assembly, reforming the education and health systems, taking on the province’s bloated and powerful unions and generally turning Quebec from a have-not province into a have province. The CAQ promises to limit political donations to $100, get the government out of the business of micromanaging schools, and extend the hours of the province’s health clinics.
From our perspective, the CAQ is hardly perfect. Mr. Legault was a sovereigntist in the past, and originally was somewhat vague about the CAQ’s stance on future referenda. Moreover, he seems to embrace much of the same claptrap about the allegedly endangered state of the French language in Quebec, promising to strengthen the Office de la Langue Française and its army of language snitches. It is also true that the CAQ is a young party, untested by time or power. And as with all such new political start-ups (such as Wildrose in Alberta, or the newly ascendant Quebec wing of the federal NDP), it surely has attracted its share of unvetted oddballs.
Nevertheless, in a province that clearly is ready to move on from Mr. Charest, Mr. Legault provides a fresh face. And from a strictly strategic point of view, he provides federalist voters with the best option for keeping Ms. Marois out of the premier’s office: The latest polls suggest the CAQ running well ahead of the Liberals.
For these reasons, we believe Mr. Legault’s CAQ is the best option for Quebec voters. Of the three major party leaders, he is the most apt to lead Quebec as it grows its economy and modernizes its society within a united Canada.
Quebec is that they don’t speak French, although they claim to. What they actually speak is Joyal, a 17th century patios from the Normandie region. No-one else in the world of Francophonie speaks this fossilized language and it’s quite funny to watch visiting dignitaries from West Africa listening to official speeches with very puzzled looks on their faces.
Typical French attitude of wanting something for nothing. Maintaining all your social programs on the back of subsidies from the rest of the Canadian Federation (who don’t have the luxury of sharing those same “family-friendly” policies). The gravy train rolls on.
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thats all fucking asholes french attitude they tr break up the canada but we did kick them all 1750 we can do again long live united british canada