Saturday January 28, 2012
C2C's View
Posted: January 25, 2012
An expensive Quebec separatist says adieu. C2C Journal’s Mark Milke argues it’s long overdue….
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Calgary shouldn’t kill one of its beautiful buildings
Calgary is about to allow a fine piece of mid-century architecture to be destroyed. Big mistake, argues Irene Karshenbaum ….
Volume 5 - Issue 4: The Two Solitudes Persist
The Future of Free Trade in Québec
Support for free trade has tended to be high in Quebec: federalists supported it for economic reasons and sovereignists because it would allow the province to be less economically dependent on the rest of Canada. Will this change with the rise of the NDP? Bradley Doucet and Jasmin Guénette believe it could…
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Q&A with Joanne Marcotte
c2c’s Joseph Quesnel interviews Joanne Marcotte, a pioneer in Quebec’s freedom movement, a co-founder of the Réseau Liberté Québec and author of the recently-released Pour en finir avec le governemama
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The Two Solitudes Make a Comeback
Is Quebec’s province-wide embrace of the NDP just more evidence that the two solitudes are as alienated from each as ever, or merely a fluke? Brendan Steven worries that language issues and the Quebec vs. the Rest of Canada divide will play a more prominent role in the next few years of Canadian politics.
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The Rise of the NDP or the Confusing Heritage of the Quiet Revolution?
With opinions polls indicating that on many policy issues Quebecers have conservative stances, the best way to explain the election of 59 MPs for the NDP is to consider how confused voters are because of the politically correct discourse that has dominated the history of province.
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Beware the CAQ: How the “efficient” left might eliminate Québec’s only right-of-centre party
The Quebec conservative scene has been shaken-up by the emergence of a new political movement -- and now official political party -- called the Coalition pour l'avenir du Québec (CAQ). Paul Beaudry argues that despite media spin, the coalition is not to be considered "conservative" in any sense of the word, and that the right-of-centre Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) should rebuff attempts at a merger.
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