A new poll, just out, contains bad news for Quebec separatists. According to CROP , 71 per cent of Quebeckers think the sovereignty debate is “outdated”‘ up from 58 per cent last year. Only 25 per cent want to separate from Canada. Seventy per cent of Quebeckers think independence will not be acheived. Can you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Quebec separatism’
IS SEPARATISM DYING?
October 17, 2011SHOULD NDP LEADER, TURMEL, STEP DOWN?
August 3, 2011It is now clear that NDP interim-leader, Nycole Turmel, was a member of two separatist parties, the Bloc which she left only in January of this year and Quebec Solidaire, of which she is still a member. Turmel, a former labour leader, explains that she identified with the social democratic aims of these parties but [...]
ARE THE SEPARATISTS FINISHED?
June 7, 2011This morning in Quebec city a fourth member of the PQ resigned from the party. This in addition to the three heavyweights yesterday – Louise Beaudoin, Pierre Curzi and Lisette Lapointe, the wife of Jacques Parizeau. And this in addition to the dreadful defeat sustained in the federal election by the Bloc Quebecois, which dropped [...]
IS 50 PER CENT-PLUS-ONE ENOUGH FOR QUEBEC SEPARATION.?
May 27, 2011Almost half the NDP caucus in Ottawa comes from Quebec. There is no doubt there are some sovereignists in this group. Which is why NDP leader, Jack Layton, is struggling to clarify his position on Quebec’s separation from Canada. After several false starts Mr. Layton has fallen back on the NDP’s Sherbrooke Declaration of some [...]
SHOULD POLITICAL PARTIES BE SUBSIDIZED?
April 10, 2011The system we now have in Canada is that each political party receives a subsidy of $2 for each vote they receive in a general election. So if the separatist Bloc receives a million votes they are entitled to $2million from the public purse. In fact most of the Bloc’s funding comes from this tax-payer [...]
