Anglophones keep adapting and Quebec keeps moving the goalposts
Quebec Anglos have several reasons to be angry: the attempt by the Coalition Avenir Québec government to abolish English school boards; bill 21 banning the wearing of religious signs; bill 96 which, amongst other things, freezes the growth of English colleges; and the withdrawal of a promised subsidy for a new Dawson College pavilion. Directly or indirectly, each one of those measures is an attack against their fundamental rights.
Since becoming leader two years ago, Anglade and her team have been obsessed with increasing her party’s among the French-speaking majority, of which only 11 per cent tell pollsters they would vote for the Liberal if an election were held today. Under Anglade’s leadership, the party has taken a “nationalist turn,” which has failed to attract more French votes while upsetting their traditional clientele of Anglophones and visible minorities.
Even if the formation of a new party might not be advantageous, the “discussion about a new party might be profitable,” Fraser concedes. Who knows, maybe the provincial Liberals will begin to notice that anglophone voters should not be taken for granted?Article content
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