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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2019-11-10 03:57 pm

QUEBEC/WEALTH: Interesting connections

So I read this opinion piece by a "Peter White" in the Globe and Mail the other day, which I see as a rant about how the rest of us outside of Québec need to shut up and let Françcois Legault and the CAQ off the hook about Bill 21. Despite our qualms, he expects our silence.

There has been some informed - and not-so-informed argument over how sensible Mr. White's assertions and warnings really are. I do worry about Alberta's current government using the current government in Québec as either an excuse, a role model or both in the present circumstances.

At my community-owned ISP's user-managed message boards, we've had some interesting discussion about it too. Being headquartered in Ottawa the city, with the municipality of Gatineau and the rest of Québec's Western Townships right across the Ottawa River, you should expect that to be the case. One of my acquaintances there pointed out Mr. White's publicly-viewable work history as he's curated it. In addition to his associations with Brian Mulroney and Daniel Johnson...twenty-five years as a Director at Hollinger. Conrad Black's Hollinger.

So I wonder what he gets out of telling the rest of us to shut up and back off about our neighbours' rights.
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[personal profile] sabotabby 2019-11-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
My family is from Montreal and thus I feel like I get to bitch about it. Especially because I live in Ontario in no small part because of Quebecois anti-Semitism. Also if they are going to take whatever share of my federal taxes, I should get a say.