Opinion: Please tone down the rhetoric about the PQ being racist
In the days after our Quebec general election, a Calgary Herald columnist wrote in her newspaper (Sept. 7, “Are one-third of Quebec voters bigots?”): “What’s most surprising about Quebec’s provincial election result Tuesday night isn’t just how well Jean Charest’s scandal-plagued Liberal Party did or that most Quebecers reject a separatist agenda. It’s that fully 31.94 per cent of Quebec voters have no problem supporting the bigoted and racist agenda of the winning Parti Québécois.”
This is just one example of a plethora of comments published in English-Canadian newspapers and blogs during and after the election campaign that made reference to alleged racism of PQ candidates, volunteers and voters.
Are these accusations founded, and can they be considered as fair – and therefore necessary – commentary?
Or are they, as suggested by some nationalist groups, a new trick by federalists to demonize and crush the PQ?
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