Marois tries to reassure anglos

Posted By: Canadian Press · 9/1/2012 2:17:00 PM

Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois is trying to reassure members of the province's anglophone community on edge
about the possibility of a PQ government.


Marois was confronted at a campaign stop outside Montreal today by an English school board member worried about a plan to put limits on who can attend English junior college.

Marois, who is leading in the polls ahead of Tuesday's election, told the man they would find a way to work out the problem.

She later told reporters she wouldn't abandon Quebec anglophones, without going into specifics.

But some remain concerned and an English-language rights group is holding a protest in Montreal today against the PQ.

The group is opposed to the party's plan to strengthen Bill 101.

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  1. BarryS_9699 posted on 09/01/2012 09:14 PM
    As Anglophones we'd be crazy not to fear Marois. She is dangerous and her pronouncements are clearly racist. She has continued to play to her supporters insecurities. I can deal wtih the feeling that many of the Quebecois feel that their language and culture are threatened and want their own country. However the threat is external. Those anglos that have stayed support french and live in a bilingual Quebec. If Quebec were ever to separate, the external reality of English would still threaten french Quebec which would lead to further demonization of the non-french
    Quebecers. Marois and her ilk scare me. In my Montreal the French people I know are outward looking and open-minded, not xenophobic and narrow-minded. Perhaps partition is the answer.
  2. john posted on 09/02/2012 09:43 AM
    FEAR a PQ gov't. Absolute xenophobic racist ideology. "Le Quebec au Quebecois" does not include Quebecers without a nom de souche. I'm not sure what that does to my family; An anglophone married to a "pure laine" and 2 bilingual kids who go to french school. Too bad they have my last name...Having been through 2 referendums, I can't take another. My Quebec bilingual family will leave, we're already checking out property in Hawkesbury...
  3. steve posted on 09/04/2012 11:35 AM
    What does PQ stand for?....Pack Quick !!
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