The candidates for the leadership of the PLQ, gathered in a congress, “let loose”.
About what?
About the status of the French language, which they no longer even pretend to want to defend.
And what do they intend to do if one of them ever becomes prime minister?
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Abolish large sections of our linguistic legislation, in particular Law 96, which updated Law 101, to strengthen it a little.
I remind you that Law 96 is made up of measures and will never be able to reverse the decline of French. Only the end of mass immigration, law 101 in CEGEP and the independence of Quebec could.
However, these measures are excessive for the PLQ.
With the Quiet Revolution, he pretended to accept the principle of French Quebec. It’s over. He has now converted to bilingual Quebec, which obviously pleases his electorate. Moreover, the PLQ relies less on the conviction of voters than on their import.
French, for him, in Quebec, is only one language out of two. The PLQ has truly rallied behind Canada as it is.
For him, Quebecers are minority French-speaking Canadians under the 1982 regime, not a nation in their own right, called to live in their language, their culture and their country.
The PLQ was colonized by the PLC.
Origins
For the PLQ, the most beautiful thing that can happen to a Quebecer is to speak English without an accent, as they say, among those who do not know that Londoners have an accent, New Yorkers too, without forgetting Australians and even Newfoundlanders.
Those who dream of “speaking without an accent” dream of erasing the trace of their origins when they speak the language of the one they believe to be the master.
It’s because deep down, they would prefer to no longer be Quebecers.
