In choosing to target Quebec's English-language universities with massive tuition increases for out-of-province students, Quebec's premier is proving that attacking minorities is a favourite pastime of weak politicians, writes former NDP leader Tom Mulcair in a column for CTVNews.ca.
In choosing to target Quebec’s English-language universities with massive tuition increases for out-of-province students, Quebec Premier Francois Legault is once again proving that axiom.
Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante has courageously stood up against Legault’s discriminatory scheme, saying it’ll hurt Montreal’s economy and reputation. With Boston, Montreal is considered the largest university city in North America. In very short order, it will lose that status. To say that Legault is unsophisticated when it comes to sensitive issues of minority rights is an understatement. He’s a bumpkin., Legault outright embarrassed himself. He tried to chat up his host with this ice-breaker: “You’re Catholic, aren’t you…? All French-Canadians are Catholic.”
In fact, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s own language law, Bill C-13 adopted last spring, could actually make things worse. Trudeau inexplicably did away with the symmetry of protections for the French minorities outside Quebec and Anglos in Quebec. That could hurt the case as it wends its way to the Supreme Court. Anyone who thought that Trudeau’s decision to drop David Lametti as justice minister would change things, has been quickly disabused of the notion.
All any Quebec politician or pundit ever has to do, whenever the English-speaking community points out clear cases of discrimination, is affirm that Anglos are “the best-treated minority in the world.” But that’s now starting to wear thin.
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