Marois would ban candidates from elections

Posted By: Dan Delmar · 8/21/2012 4:23:00 PM

Pauline Marois would introduce a law banning any candidate from running in an election - municipally or provincially - if they weren't proficient in French.

The PQ leader made the surprising statement at a campaign stop this afternoon in Montreal. The new rule would be part of the PQ's citizenship initiative and would apply both to immigrants and native Quebecers seeking office. 

Candidates would "have to be able to be understood," Marois said, without defining any criteria. "There are no oral or written tests planned."

The rules would also apply to Anglophone and Aboriginal municipalities.

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  1. Jon posted on 08/21/2012 04:52 PM
    Keep on talking Madame Marois, each time you do the people get to see a little more of the real you.
    1. Bryan Zako posted on 08/22/2012 04:03 PM
      @Jon Hahaha. I got a workman who does things around the house for me. He's from some part of rural Quebec. I can BARELY understand him. My Francophone neighboors can BARELY understand him. Yet, he's as French as you can get, going back generations, probably all the way to Champlain. Idoubt he would "pas" any test of hers.

      Hey, if you can't be understood by the electorate, then no one will vote for you. Let the people decide. Quebec is (still) a democracy.


      Still you got to wonder if the opposition slips these little nuggets into her speech and she simply reads them out without anyone having edited them away first.

      So, essentially, she either has these really strange ideas on her own, or she doesn't know or understand what she is reading fom her teleprompter.
  2. ciacipe posted on 08/21/2012 05:12 PM
    She desires everything in French..... She wears clothes made in France????? She drives a French car? Control freak.........
  3. andre posted on 08/21/2012 05:52 PM
    You gotta be kidding me
  4. abour posted on 08/21/2012 08:38 PM
    Good to know that that's now settled. I was really concerned that she'd waste time talking more about plans to pay off quebecs debt and crazy things like healthcare , jobs. pheeeeeeew What a relief
  5. Lyn posted on 08/21/2012 10:07 PM
    Pauline Marois is a bit of a hypocrite. Saying candidates should be understood. Well I am pretty sure she is the one who turned down doing an interview on television that was to be done in English because according to her she couldnt speak enough English to get by. Maybe she should be applying her rules to herself.
    1. abour posted on 08/22/2012 08:06 AM
      @Lyn Lyn

      In her perfect hate filled mind there is no need to speak English if you run for office. Only French
  6. Roman posted on 08/22/2012 08:12 AM
    DICTATOR!!!
  7. MikeZ_7245 posted on 08/22/2012 08:15 AM
    Marois must be menopausal to talk like that...
  8. Lis posted on 08/22/2012 08:43 AM
    She wants to be Queen of her own little country. Way to go Your Highness and best of luck to you. Now we see you as you really are.
  9. rc posted on 08/22/2012 12:10 PM
    ummm is she going to fire herself? maybe she should go out and learn the proper french not the quebecois french .. we are talking about the french language are we not? keep opening up your mouth paulie .. the more you do the more your numbers go down.
  10. murrayl posted on 08/22/2012 12:49 PM
    Personally, I think that all people running for public office should have motivational tresting as well as convergent and divergent testing for intelligence, and the results should be published. If that were done Marois would have been too embarrassed to run for political office!
  11. shya posted on 08/22/2012 02:53 PM
    A doctor or an architect can't practise in Quebec without proving they can speak French.So she is adding MNA to the list,seems reasonable.
  12. MichaelS_23 posted on 08/22/2012 03:50 PM
    While I agree that politicians in Quebec should be able to speak French, it is a whole other requirement that they must pass some type of test. A politician is elected to represent their constituency, if the community alophone community or anglophone then those people should have the right to choose who they will vote for not the government.

    Conversly, should it be made a requirement that unilingual francophones not be alowed to represent minority communities? If the representitive is unable to communicate with their constituents, how is the person supposed to represent them?
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