Chris Selley: Latest trial balloon from Quebec is another attack on minority rights

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At this point, allowing Quebec to proceed on its current course is a bigger threat to the Canadian federation than the prospect of it leaving ever was

One of the fascinating things about Quebec politics is that it’s often impossible to predict which absurdities will become controversial and which will be accepted as reasonable. The province’s linguistic and more recently cultural debates operate in an atmosphere so divorced from normal reality that it’s impossible to know how any new idea or event might react to its unique and volatile mixture of gases.

Related By contrast, we’re supposed to think it’s totally reasonable that the National Assembly voted merely to request that merchants use state-sanctioned greetings. Unanimously. Twice. There are any number of reasons one might find this impractical , pointless , rude, discriminatory or downright appalling, Like the bonjour-hi ban, it has been very poorly received in many quarters.

So that answers the practicality question, then: Just bring along your framed diploma from Westmount High.

 

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