Commentary
At first sight, it may seem that the replacement of the ambiguous Coalition Avenir Québec party by the Parti Québécois in Quebec’s election last week is a victory for the forces of Quebec independence. This is an illusion. The CAQ was a fusion of interests that wished to de-emphasize constitutional issues and emphasize policies that would encourage increased Quebec and particularly French Quebec prosperity. It exploited the fatigue with constitutional matters, which over the last 60 years has seen Toronto vastly surpass Montreal as Canada’s leading city and has caused the emigration from Quebec of more than 500,000 mainly non-French-speaking people….