Quebec election: Two new parties trying to spoil Liberals’ chances with anglophones
As Quebec’s major political parties duke it out ahead of the Oct. 3 election, a pair of newcomers are trying to capitalize on issues like language and minority rights to steal votes in heavily English-speaking ridings from the struggling Liberals.
“We don’t see ourselves as a single-issue party nor do we just speak for minority, English-speaking communities, but that is the bedrock to what we’re doing,” Standish said, referring to his party’s opposition to the CAQ’s language reform. “This is not just an anglophone issue, this an economic issue, these are decades-old cultural issues,” Holness said.
Robert Libman, one of the four Equality Party members elected to the legislature 33 years ago, said, “Certainly for me, there’s some deja vu in what’s going on now, but there’s also several differences between now and what happened in 1989.”Two major differences, he said, are the rise of social media and the crowded field of parties — according to Elections Quebec, a record 27 political parties are registered in 2022.
Voters who spoke to The Canadian Press on Friday said they were not quite ready to jump on board with Standish or Holness.Quebec parties hold competing views on how to best protect middle class
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