Quebec

[Gość: jj]

Mieszkam tu od 15 lat i 2 razy glosowalem w referendum przeciw separacji.
Glosowalem tez 2 raz przeciw Partii Quebecua w wyborach, ale bez rezultatu.
Teraz glosy fronkofonw (anglofoni i emigranci zawsze popierali LIB)
zadecydowaly
o wygranej Liberalow (76 poslow do 45 z PQ). Nawet oni odwrocili sie od tych
debili, dbajacych tylko o wlasne stolki.
Rzad Partii Q.prowadzil bardzo szowinistyczna polityke , forsowal przepisami
j.
francuski - do tego stopnia, ze bylo (jest jeszcze) Ministerstwo Poprawnosci
Jezykowej (nazwa moja - jakos to sie inaczej nazywa) z ministrem o pensji 120
tys. na rok i cala gromada urzednikow zajmujacych sie mierzeniem liter na
witrynach sklepowych.
Wedlug rzadowego przepisu dozwolony jest napis (nazwa) w dwoch jezykach, ale
litery franc. musza byc 2X wieksze niz angielskie.Kilka lat temu wlasciciele
chinskich restauracji dopiero po strajkach i demonstracjach wywalczyli
utrzymanie swoich chinskich nazw na szyldach restauracji i barow.To ze znak
drogowy "stop" nazywa sie tu "arret" to juz drobiazg.Tych kilka przykladow
moze
uzmyslowi niektorym do czego moze doprowadzic chory rzad. Na dodatek ten rzad
nie mial legitymacji splecznej przynajmniej przez ostatnie 4 lata, poniewaz
obowiazuje tu (jeszcze) ordynacja terytorialna a nie wiekszosciowa. Polega to
na tym, ze 1 posel jest wybierany z okregu wyborczego niezaleznie od liczby
ludnosci. Jest to tak skonstruowane, ze tam gdzie poparcie ma PQ wystaczy np.
5
tys. glosow na kandydata i zostaje on poslem. tam gdzie tradycyjnie wygrywaja
LIB. trzeba na takiego posla np. 30 tys. glosow.W ten sposob PQ (separatysci)
utworzyli rzad kiedy na nich glosowalo mniej niz 42%, a LIB. przegrali majac
ponad43% glosow liczonych: jeden czlowiek = 1 glos.
Taka sztuczka i wszysko zgodnie z prawem.
Dla ciekawych ponizej omowienie z lokalnej gazety.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Quebecers opted for a decisive turn into the future yesterday by voting in a
federalist Liberal government in Quebec's first general election of the new
millennium.

They rejected Bernard Landry as premier and denied the separatist Parti
Québécois a third term in office along with the chance to mount a fresh drive
for Quebec independence with the levers of government at its command.

The 44-year-old Charest, born to a bilingual household and previously leader
of
the federal Progressive Conservative Party, will be the province's 29th
premier
and the first to come of age in Quebec's modern era.

About 40 minutes after the polls closed, Radio-Canada's election desk
projected
a majority Liberal government, and the trend from there kept running in
favour
of the Liberals.

With the vote count completed in the province's 125 ridings, the Liberals had
76 candidates elected or leading, the PQ 45 and Action démocratique du Québec
had four.

Charest, PQ leader and outgoing premier Bernard Landry and ADQ leader Mario
Dumont were all personally re-elected in their home ridings.

The Liberals' lead in the popular vote was running at 45.9 per cent to 33.2
per
cent for the Parti Québécois and 18.2 per cent for the ADQ.

Voter turnout was 69 per cent, nearly 10 percentage points less than for the
last election.

Most of the PQ cabinet members were re-elected in their ridings, with the
notable exception of public security minister Serge Ménard in Laval-des-
Rapides
and former language minister Louise Beaudoin in Chambly.

Another notable loser was former Montreal mayor Pierre Bourque, the ADQ's
star
recruit for this election. He lost to former PQ minister Diane Lemieux in the
midtown Montreal riding of Bourget.

The Liberals' gains were spread across the map.

Noteworthy PQ losses were registered in the Quebec City region and Laval,
adjacent to Montreal.

In his victory speech, Charest proclaimed that Quebec has given itself a 21st-
century government.

"It is a mandate for change that we have received and a mandate for renewal,"
said a sweaty and jubilant Charest in his home town, Sherbrooke.

He gracefully complimented both Landry and Dumont for their contributions,
and
he promised his government will be one of "respect, dignity and transparency."

He also promised a new era in federal-provincial relations, but served notice
he, too, will want changes from Ottawa.

"It is not only Quebec that is beginning to change tonight, it is also
Canada,"
he said.

Landry was equally gracious in his concession remarks, eliciting groans from
some at PQ election headquarters in Quebec City.

He said the PQ will mount a strong opposition and take time to reflect and
listen so that it can be the party of change in the next election.

He also said the party will continue to push for Quebec sovereignty, though
he
conceded his 1,000-day goal for achieving it was too optimistic. "But then,
what are a few thousand days in the life of a nation," he added.

Landry gave no clear indication of his future plans, but in closing he echoed
René Lévesque's line from the 1980 referendum loss - "À la prochaine," until
next time.

At dissolution last month, the Parti Québécois held a majority of 67 assembly
seats to the Liberals' 50 and the ADQ's five. There were two independents and
one vacancy. In the last province-wide vote, in 1998, the PQ won with 76
seats,
while the Liberals finished second with 48 and Dumont won the lone ADQ seat.

The Liberals were losers then even though they had a slight edge in the
popular
vote, because of the greater concentration of Liberal voters in the more
populous urban ridings.

Yesterday's voting capped a 33-day campaign that was greatly overshadowed by
the Iraq war, which broke out the week the election was called.

From the outset, it was rated Quebec's most unpredictable election in recent
memory, with the Liberals and PQ tied in popular support according to Léger
Marketing, campaign pollsters for The Gazette, TVA and Le Journal de Montréal.

By then, the ADQ surge registered last year had already abated and the
party's
polling slide continued as the campaign progressed.

In the first two weeks, the PQ nudged slightly ahead, but its lead remained
within the polling margin of error. Its early lead among francophone voters,
however, would have given it victory once again if the dead heat continued to
the finish.

The turning point came at the halfway mark with the televised debate among
the
three major party leaders.

Charest delivered a polished performance that sharply outclassed his
opponents
and gained him fresh stature with many voters who had written him off as too
lightweight.

The decisive moment of the debate came when Charest confronted Landry with a
speech former PQ leader and premier Jacques Parizeau had made earlier in the
day in which he chuckled over his infamous "money and ethnic votes" slur on
referendum night in 1995.

Landry was caught unaware, and the PQ campaign was knocked off the rails for
several days by the ensuing controversy and never fully recovered thereafter.

The Liberal campaign, on the other hand, hit its stride from then on and by
late last week had developed a steamroller momentum.

The final Léger poll showed the Liberals ahead by 13 per cent in popular
preference, a margin that normally spells impending victory.

While sovereignty was not a central issue in the campaign, it came to the
fore
with the Parizeau episode and was kept alive by Landry, who was compelled to
reiterate his commitment to independence on a regular basis to keep the PQ's
core of sovereignist voters onside and motivated.

In the latter stages of the campaign, Landry had trouble explaining how his
showcase pitch for a four-day workwe