The nationalism to which Layton successfully appealed doesn’t exist any more. What’s left is simply incompatible with a Canada-wide progressive movement
The NDP is officially on the offensive in Quebec. On Monday in Montreal, newly minted deputy leader Alexandre Boulerice promised the party’s “environmental plan … will put an end to half-measures.” Brigitte Sansoucy, chair of the NDP’s Quebec Caucus, suggested they would offer “concrete solutions for Quebecers issues like employment, agriculture and support for families.”
It’s often said en passant, even in media reports, that the House of Commons declared Quebec a nation in 2006. It did not. By a vote of 265-16, MPs “recognize that the Québécois form a nation within a united Canada.” It was the culmination of a ridiculous game of silly buggers that began with one of Michael Ignatieff’s more tin-earned moments in Canadian politics and ended with competing Québécois-nationhood motions winging around the House of Commons.
The Sherbrooke Declaration became official party doctrine in October 2005. Shortly thereafter, Quebec politics became consumed with an often-hysterical debate around “reasonable accommodations” for religious minorities. In the March 2007 election, Mario Dumont’s Action Démocratique rode that debate to official opposition status.
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