Josh Freed has his say during Quel Avenir’s week on anglo/franco issues, basically “Why can’t we all just get along?”
Thursday’s commenter was Simon Brault, president of Culture Montreal. He makes an interesting point that the English language seeping into Montreal and poisoning its cultural life is not the fault of the resident anglophone population, but the triumph of globalized culture.
The RCMP had been holding out on the Charbonneau commission, trying not to hand over certain documents, but a superior court ruled Friday that Quebec can indeed subpoena a federal entity under these circumstances.
with retired cops selling out informants, and our own crooked government with its impotent inquiries, can you blame them for not trusting us?
It’s more that I wonder what the RCMP has to hide in this case. They should be gung-ho for helping clean up corruption, instead of which they tried to block access to a whole pile of information. Sure, it might just be a pissy little jurisdictional fight, but there could be more to it than that.
Students are not enthusiastic about Jean Charest’s new offer (notice now that there’s an offer, it’s Charest, not Beauchamp?). They’re taking it to their memberships this weekend.
Quebec is making an offer to the students but still not actively talking to them.
If you assume 2% annual inflation (it has been lower than that), a 75% increase should happen over 28 years.
What about if you start counting from the last time tuition increased, ant6n?
Let’s hear what the student unions come up with as a compromise.
They need to make concessions but considering that this has turned into a battle of ideologies, that’s going to be very hard to do.
The tuition has been increasing since 2007, above the rate of inflation.
Between 1994 and 2007, the tuition was frozen, but at the beginning of the freeze there was a hike of 30%. According to the bank of canada inflation calculator, the inflation between 1994 and 2007 was 30.09%. So effectively since 1994, the tuition has actually been going up compared to inflation.
This of course ignores the hidden increases that come via administrative fees. I remember a long time ago, during tuition freeze there was an article talking about how Universities used fees as a way to get more money from students. They are now a significant portion of the fees that students pay. For example, in 2005/2006, while the tuition was still frozen for Quebec students, I paid 1200$ for fees at McGill (i.e. excluding tuition, and medical care).
This also ignores the costs for books which seem to have gotten quite out of hand as well.
In other related news, a Facebook page has sprung up calling on CLASSE “leader” and media-attention seeking extraordinaire Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois to resign with 3,225 “Likes” at the time of this writing and someone posting a photo suggesting “some men just want to watch the world burn.”
There is very little control that the universities have over the cost of books, to be fair; most professors are conscious of these costs and try to keep them down. The fees are a problem, but the reality is that the schools need more money, and the government refuses to give it to them. (I don’t support the increased fees or the planned increase in tuition.)
I visited the UK this past spring with the intent on moving there but I realised, more than ever, that I am a Quebecois who belongs in Quebec. Vive la Québec, vive la langue française, vive la justice sociale.
Oh and uh
“Charest and Beauchamp stressed that, after tax credits, the increase would amount to about 50 cents a day for most students if the hike was spread out further.”
Yeah. Now we’re getting into World Vision TV arguments . “Less than the cost of a cup of coffee!!” The emperor has no clothes and a bad haircut.
@ant6n Don’t forget all the fee hikes that student societies impose on students themselves, all duly voted into place by a few hundred to few thousand people.
@Kevin, jeather
Fair enough. But the point is that the costs of education as whole for students are going up, even when the media portrays it otherwise.
The freeze has been over for many years, and even then costs went up on average.
@ant6n: If the students are under the impression that their expenses (for anything – food, shelter, electricity, education) are generally going to stay static from year to year, then I think that’s their issue.
@Josh
TO the man in the last row — we’re talking all in inflation adjusted numbers. Jeesh.
@ant6n: Sorry, I’m not in Quebec. But when I was, my tuition stayed static from year to year. It was a complete freeze. Since when has that not been the case?
As I wrote, the tuition was frozen between 1994 and 2007. However, at the beginning of the freeze, the tuition was increased by 30%, which roughly corresponds to the cumulative inflation between 1994 and 2007.
Thursday night’s student demo remained peaceful as Mayor Tremblay pleaded for a resolution to the standoff and the media have found both restaurateurs and hoteliers to echo the same sentiment. Even some of the students have suggested bringing in a mediator but Quebec shot the idea down.
Rima Elkouri deplores the ongoing damage and notes it’s only good luck nobody has been badly hurt or killed yet. Even the Gazette allows itself some critical thought about how allowing this situation to drag on may be part of Jean Charest’s long-term plans for re-election.
The CBC asks what gives Quebec students different expectations from those in the rest of Canada.
Uh about that ‘sober’ CBC article, they missed the whole point about how Quebec’s public and corporate worlds are wholly corrupt, have been bleeding billions of dollars from already stressed taxpayers, and how it is *immoral* (yes morality falls into this issue) to ask one of the poorest slices of our population to cough up 75% more (plus interest) for one of the only pathways to class mobility left to the average Quebecer.
“one of the only pathways to class mobility left to the average Quebecer.”
Not only class mobility, but just as importantly, social awareness. Social awareness (understanding the power abuses inherent in a class-based system) is what is most needed from our universities. Everyone who attends walks away with a bit more of this than they had before they went.
Is it not conceivable that holding back class mobility and reducing social awareness wouldn’t displease politicians one tiny bit?
Quebec is such an interesting case. Until the 1960s the Catholic Church kept a lid on the place, then linguistic nationalism took over some of people’s willingness to hold back their personal ambitions and reduce their involvement in the wider world on the promise of a better life (once it was after death, then it was in an independent Quebec). Now we’re all on the internet and while nationalism is still alive its flame is not the big passionate bonfire it once was. How are you going to hold them down now?
Tax them hard, beat them with sticks, make it more difficult to cast off the “brand on the tongue” of growing up speaking bad joual, cut back on Radio-Canada so there’s less motivation to listen to people speaking standard French, push them back into the woods and the wilderness and make them hew wood, draw water and dig in the ground for your corporate masters. What do you think?
Kate, fantastic point. I have similar suspicions but you’ve expressed them much more clearly than I ever could.
For my part, what would be nice is if the students would articulate “why” they need tuitions kept down. If there is a reasonable argument to be made for this, I think that the public (who is being asked to pay for this) should be made aware of it.
If all the students are saying is “we can’t afford the increase” then it opens to door to taxpayers/voters making the same argument (i.e. we can’t afford NOT to raise tuitions), doesn’t it?
And I was having such a nice Friday too… the idea that politicians would purposely raise the bar on access to education… it boggles the mind. How about… we accept the tuition hike but require that all course materials created thereafter be published freely online so that people can study-along-at-home at no cost to them, followed by taking an exam to earn their diplomas..? It cuts costs and opens up higher education to more people…
Ok, I’ll bite… *puts on Concordia student hat*
First, I’d like to say that I am kind of in a hurry here but my argument might not be as thought through as I’d like.
Second, “The Students” is something that does not exist. We are not a monolithic group and some of us are busy with classes and exams to make our voices really heard.
Third, It is not because I am not on strike and have decided not to take part in the protests that I am in, any shape or form, for the hikes. There has been in the media an automatic association that protestors are against the hikes and those that staid in classe are for them. Makes me want to yell at someone when I hear that.
Now, why am I against the hikes? I can only speak for myself so here it goes: Stop wasting my money! Personally, I could afford the hike. I know that not everybody could, but, selfishly, I can. Does not mean I want *them* to keep wasting my money. I don’t want them to have three quarters of a million dollars in a golden parachute, I don’t want them to drop hundreds on millions of dollars downt he drain that is Îlot Voyageur, I don’t want the Dean of McGill to spend nearly 10K in a first class ticket to Brasil ( really? Business was no enough? You needed first? WHy not pay the different from your own pocket! ). I don’t want the UQAM/TR/S to spend 200 million dollars per year in publicity and them have all of them tell ME that there is not enough money to teach. Put your house in order, stop wasting money left and right and paying people more than they are worth (I am talking administrators here, I don’t think teachers are overpaid), stop WASTING. If the education system was in order and there wasn’t millions of dollars going down the drain every year, I would gladly pay my share of the tuition hikes. Even pay more than my share. Pay whatever I can afford to get an education if it meant people who could afford less could also get their education. But as it is? No way! These hikes just mean that there will be more wasted money, more people getting nice financial cushions, more stupid projects that aren’t properly studied nor executed. There will be ZERO increase in the quality of the education I will be getting because this hike is not to benefit me, it is to benefit the corrupted administrations that are endemic at every level in the Education department.
So there, this is my selfish opinion. Then you can add that it is not fair and that the poorest students won’t be able to afford it and that it will prevent social mobility, etc, etc. These arguments are not wrong, per se, but they are not my main argument. That is why the whole “They can afford it, they just need not to buy the latest iPad or buy 6$ coffees” argument makes me want to smack people… it is not because I can afford it that I want to waste my money. I could probably afford to cut a 20$ in pieces every week and wash it down the drain. Does not mean I want to!
I hope I did not come across as too belligerent, I try to be respectful of other people’s opinions and if you felt I was yelling at any of you, my mistake, it was not the case.
And now… to prepare for my summer semester that starts Monday…
*gets off the soap box*
@Susana: Wow. Thanks. I think that puts how I feel into words.
How is it raising the bar on education if the government increases bursaries and scholarships for poor students?
A law student from Université Laval writes in The Globe and Mail that Numbers aren’t with students – and Quebec shouldn’t be either.
What numbers. He says only 35% of the students are on strike, and then says that only 20% of students actually support the strikes as a whole – basically assuming that all faculties that are not on strike unanimously voted against them, but all faculties that are on strike only got barely more than half support for them.
Then he makes big words about economics and debt and whatnot, ignoring that the tuition hikes are nearly negligible from a budget point of view; conveniently he has no numbers. One number – reducing hike down to weekly numbers: great! Did you know that if you make a million a year, you make less than 2$ per Minute. That’s only like an expensive phone call!
The rest is just the typical anti arts rants that’s basically unrelated to the tuition issue itself. Ending with cheers for the government.
Man, you sould get an arts degree, maybe then you’ll be able to analyze this rant a bit more critically. Or you should get a real degree, like a math degree, which would give you the ability to analyze the lacking numbers a bit better.
@ant6n
I’ve argued part of that before: the goal isn’t to bankrupt (would be) students; it’s to get students who are going to be earning a hell of a lot more money after graduation to pay a more equitable share of the costs upfront, and to divert more people into higher paying fields.
If society is picking up 80-90% of the tab, why shouldn’t it have a say in what people study?
@Kevin: Thank you for being another voice of reason.
@ant6n: I think “Sandy” is a girl’s name and therefore the pronoun you ought to be using is “she,” not “he.”
@ant6n: I have an arts degree, and two others. I see your arts degree, if you have one, hasn’t allowed you to move beyond the sexist presumption that an author is male when she is actually female. You only needed to look at the author’s name, but your arts degree hasn’t taught you to look that closely. Speaks volumes about the rigour with which you approach things in general. I’d say none. Pseudo-leftist platitudes and truisms do not equal intellectual rigour, hate to break it to you. I wish you had more to show for your degree, assuming you have one, because I did help pay for it to the tune of 89% or so.
Well, Sandy is a girl’s or a boy’s name; and by reading the text and not the name of the author I’m naturally sexist; which naturally means that my analysis of the article is completely invalid. Talk about strawman argument.
Please point out the “Pseudo-leftist platitudes” and “truisms” in my writing. I try to argue in numbers, and dislike irrelevant arguments; you just elevate any rant against students to “reason” and in this case pretend they have the numbers to show for it, when they actually don’t.
@Kevin
Paying tuition via taxation is the most progressive way to finance education. It exactly does what you say – have people who earn a hell of a lot more money pay a much larger contribution of their education through taxes. As opposed to user fees for everyone, which are largely regressive.
@ant6n: I don’t actually think you’re sexist; I do think you lack rigour. That was my point. Feigning indignation at your “sexism” was rhetorical flourish to demonstrate that you didn’t even bother to closely read and address the item in question and that your “dismissal” of it is a joke.
Right. So rather than addressing whatever point I was trying to make, you just used a strawman as a rethorical device.
@ant6n: no, sir, I was simply calling you on the straw man because it was by way of the straw man fallacy that you “refuted” Sandy’s commentary without ever actually addressing it. Making reference to the “sexist presumption” that the author is male is not straw man. It’s an ad hominem, perhaps (which isn’t always a fallacy), but not a straw man.
Another interesting item on tuition and our sense of entitlement; this time the perspective is that of a foreign student writing in the McGill Daily.
Representatives of teachers’ groups at various levels are asking for Quebec to declare a moratorium on tuition hikes and resume negotiations with students. Note all three men in that photo wearing the red square.
Opinion writers at La Presse are asking pointed questions: Michèle Ouimet asks why the government is setting things up to fail, Vincent Marissal asks why Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is being turned into the villain.
A woman who works at UdeM wrote a letter to the Gazette about her outrage about the criminalization of the right to protest. Another woman, who writes for Voir, echoes something I’ve heard all day off Twitter and elsewhere: the demo was peaceful until police charged and attacked.
Another protest is planned for tonight.
Who’s paying for the broken windows at HSBC, Chapters, TD, Scotia? The damage to cars? Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is being turned into the villain because he’s acting like a juvenile and not taking responsibility for the actions and consequences. Take control of your website. Take control of your members. Take pictures of those that are resorting to violence. Help the police ensure that the protests are 100% peaceful. And if you can’t ensure that they will be, move the protests to where damage to personal property is at a minimum.
if i read correctly classe’s website is an open platform – like wikipedia, reddit, slashdot, etc. if you “take control” of a website, its not really an open platform anymore, is it?
Lost in all this – the province’s offer during the short-circuited negotiations, as leaked to La Presse: an expansion of grants (not loans) to more middle-class students, at a cost of $30-40 million. This is a substantial offer and would just about cover any small accessibility issues caused by the tuition hikes not already covered by the expansion of the bursary program already announced. The province would pay for this by reducing the ineffective and inefficient tuition tax credits.
As a student of student aid and issues of access for most of the last decade, I’m pleased to see the province continue to move in this direction. It seems like a decent and fair policy choice, and enough of a compromise to the alleged concerns of the more moderate student groups (the FEUQ and the FECQ). Sadly, nobody’s talking about it. Not even this blog, which has had some interesting policy discussions on the subject (though not recently, for obvious reasons).
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is 21 years old. He is not “in control” of everyone in CLASSE, and it isn’t clear that the casseurs are even necessarily students in any of the official groups.
When negotiating something as important as say, the future of Quebec. You can take control of your own web site. If not then you’re a joke, not a student organization.
So the protest, which just started, has been declared illegal, since individuals were throwing projectiles at police. That was fast.
I don’t understand people who think that a loose movement of students should control itself better than the strict hierarchy of government and police – and even more so, that the giant number of students should control itself despite the violence and intimidation coming from police.
@Joey
Great, they’ll take the tuition credits. I paid 60K in tuition for my education (as an international student), I’d really like to get some back via tax credits to help pay off the debts.
Some additional links: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites/dossiers/conflit-etudiant/201204/25/01-4518667-le-quebec-un-laboratoire-pour-un-chercheur-ontarien.php a profile of Ross Finnie, the academic who has probably spent more time studying post-secondary educational pathways and the factors that influence them than anyone else in Canada. This graph, in particular, tells you everything you need to know about who stands to benefit the most from a tuition subsidy: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/html/1392/graphriches.jpg It also explains why progressives might prefer a model whereby wealthy students pay more in tuition and poorer students get a lot of it back in the form of grants.
@ant6n: I imagine tuition support for international students will never, ever, ever be a priority for any Canadian government.
In what is a refreshingly different perspective from the items posted by Kate, Henry Aubin admonishes the PQ hacks at CSDM for irresponsibly encouraging high school children to boycott classes for three days.
Whatever. Makes up for missing snow days. That piece is refreshingly one sided ‘the other’ way.
I’m really troubled by the government’s infantilizing rhetoric. The request that student leaders ‘control their group’ has strong echoes of ‘first, clean up your room…’. The whole tone strikes me as disrespectful and dismissive. Can one imagine using this style of communication toward women protesting or doctors on strike? Suggestions that students are irresponsible, irrational or that neoliberal economics is as uncontestable as the law of gravity remind me just how hegemonic that discourse has become over the past 30 years – even more remarkable given its recent stunning failures. It’s as if a whole segment of society has become so afraid to imagine other ways that they are on some kind of patrol against dissenters. Hats off to the students for holding on to their protests; they are wiser than they know.
Ironic (and sad) that the young are addressing long-term goals while the old fight for short-term consumption. But I guess it makes sense since they’ll be dead when it comes time to pay the piper for their greed and corruption.
CTV just shared a stat that from last nights (wednesday 25th) protest > “last night 85 people arrested, but only 15 for criminal activities, now of those 15 only about five or six of them were actually students”
@Joey
The tuition credits provide an incentive for highly qualified international students to stay in Canada, rather than continue and moving to the US after their studies.
For anybody who didn’t get the memo , Quebec is a socialist province.
The problem with CLASSE is that it doesn’t have a leader. I’ve had to correct a few of my colleagues who say that Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is the organization’s president – he’s not. He’s a spokesman, a figurehead.
And that’s the problem. How is the government (or anyone, really) supposed to negotiate with a ‘group’ of 170,000 people that want to operate strictly in terms of direct democracy?
That works fine for a family, but anything larger that operates that way is a mob*.
*In the political sense, not the angry, rioting sense.
@Kevin anarchy is hardly a new concept. its entirely based on decentralized decision-making. (ie let the locals decide what happens in their own locale).
As much as i disagree with the students, its become eminently clear the gov’t is intentionally putting oil on the fire so they can call an election on this issue, and on the backs of students. It does create an interesting question though, if the libs go to election on the tuition increase issue, who will the anglos vote for?
“Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois is 21 years old.”
So when it comes to arguing his case, we’re supposed to take him seriously, but when it comes to taking responsibility, the poor dear is just a lost little boy who needs to be coddled and held?
Unbelievable. Either he’s an adult, or he isn’t. And if he isn’t, someone get him off the news and into a daycare.
A student group like CLASSE is never going to have the cohesiveness of a government. Nadeau-Dubois is nobody’s poor little boy but it’s totally a sideshow for the Charest government to treat CLASSE like another government, or like a fully accredited union. It’s more chaotic than that – anyone with any sense would see that it has to be.
Anyway, as noted above, a lot of the casseurs are not students. Please ponder this: students are specifically people who do have an investment in the future – yes, they’re angry, but they’re adults who have shown themselves willing to devote years of their lives to conforming to university rules and professors’ instructions, they’re mostly not sociopaths. And now they’re willing to delay graduation to make a point, which is that our society has to be about more than bleeding its members dry for the banks.
I think you’re missing my point. I just couldn’t believe that you were invoking this guy’s age, as if it were relevant in any way. You seem to be implying that we need to lay off him because he’s just a kid. Well, if he’s just a kid then why should anyone take him seriously in any capacity?
From what I can gather, there is no single issue that the protesters are protesting about. Some want to avoid tuition hikes; some want their money better managed by higher education institutions and the government; some are railing against the capitalist system in general. I could probably go on.
It seems that the only common theme is “For whatever our grievance may be, do what we say or we will do what we can to wreck the common bonds between us, otherwise known as society”.
@Kate If CLASSE is not cohesive enough to delegate someone with full negotiation powers, they don’t deserve to be at the table. Franchement!
@Raoul.
The way Charest is talking he’s not about to call an election.
If he does, Anglos will likely vote en masse for the Liberals*. After all, anglos in Quebec value education quite a bit, and understand the individual financial payoff. There’s a reason Concordia, McGill, and Bishop’s get more, much more funding from alumni than every French university in the province put together.
*There are still too many ex-separatists/French language ‘defenders’ in the CAQ for most anglos to be completely comfortable, even if most like 8 out of 10 of his ideas.
@Kevin
do you really think charest wants to go to election based on his record to date? he’d love to make this the election issue (forget corruption). Say it does happen, would it be duplicitous for the anglos that support the students to vote against them by supporting the libs?
@ Ephraim: “Who’s paying for the broken windows at HSBC, Chapters, TD, Scotia? The damage to cars?”
A good point. But a better point is: who is paying for all the damage caused by cars and by international banking tyranny? The answer: the students, their non-marching peers, and all the future generations. This generation gap has no easy band-aid, and it’s obviously the status quo that needs to CHANGE.
The federal human resources minister won’t explain why funding was abruptly cut to RAPSIM, a group that coordinates services to the homeless in Montreal.
The Cons are simply following Jonathan Swift’s textbook.
You know, I almost wish they would. If the government actually wants certain people to fuck off and die, they should build euthanasia booths, and encourage nonproductive people to use them. It would be ugly but it would be more honest.
Andy Riga has tweeted a map of Montreal roadworks for 2012.
OK, it’s probably escapism into a brighter past, but a tumblr site called Montreal: Then and Now has a whole lot of Expo 67 images categorized by topic.
The head of the Old Port agency is answering tricky opposition questions about her travelling expenses. OpenFile’s editor links this story with the urban beach under development in the Old Port, whose metal parasols apparently cost $5,000 each.
There were 85 arrests after Wednesday night’s protest turned into a riot in the streets of downtown. Le Devoir says it was a group of around 10,000 people and that the protest began peacefully after Line Beauchamp excluded CLASSE from talks and the other two groups walked out in support.
La Presse has an entire dossier on the subject.
Why Martin Patriquin is not troubled by Ignatieff’s thoughts on Quebec.
Stephane Daury (@stephdau) 17:41 on 2012/04/27 Permalink
I really liked that post. And I thoroughly agree.
qatzelok 11:32 on 2012/04/28 Permalink
Anglo media is always claims “it is God’s will” when it comes to obliterating any real culture or community. It’s never money’s fault – always God’s (or the Internet).
Robert S 07:58 on 2012/04/29 Permalink
“… seeping into Montreal and poisoning its cultural life”?
More like just being part of said cultural life, no?
Robert H 11:31 on 2012/04/29 Permalink
Bravo, Simon Brault. Votre analyse précise la vraie menace à la survivance de la langue et la culture française d’ici. L’anxiété perpétuel à ce sujet a abouti dans une atmosphère de déformation: l’influence des anglophones est surestimé pendent que celle de la vague de mondialisation (dont la force vient surtout de l’économie puissant et des medias divers des États-Unis) est sous-estimé.
M. Brault confirme ce que j’en suis témoin partout. Tellement des anecdotes viennent à l’esprit. J’en raconte une par example: un après-midi l’année dernière j’étais dans un café à l’Avenue du Mont-Royal. J’ai entendu la conversation fort d’une bande des jeunes s’assis autour de la table juste à côté. Un d’entre eux a mentionné une chanson il aimait incitant ses compagnons de vanter les mérites de l’acte qui la fait–Coldplay (Génial! Ça c’est way cool!). D’une manière ou d’une autre le sujet changait au cinéma et tout le monde était d’accord que Batman-The Dark Knight était le plus trippant. Hélas, c’est un phénomène plus rare quand les anglophones s’enthousiasment d’un œuvre culturel francophone.
Il me semble que parmi nous qui participons à les discussions ici, nous acceptons généralement que la plupart des anglophones restant au Québec ont fait tous ce qu’ils peuvent pour s’adapter à la majorité francophone et on même soutient que ça continue. C’est donc frustrant pour les anglophones qui se trouvent l’objet des accusations mal fondé leur blâmant pour l’érosion du français à Montréal. Ceux qui le disent devraient plutôt se tourner vers les francophones eux-mêmes: personne ne les force d’employer les termes anglais qu’ils préfèrent même quand il y a des équivalents en français, d’aller aux films d’Hollywood, d’écouter les «top forty», de s’interesser à les célébrités et les emissions de la télévision Américaine. C’est les francophones qui ont CHOISI ces «vecteurs d’uniformisation», la «capitulation tranquille» dont M. Brault écrit. Les francophones donc deviennent les agents involontaires de l’anglicisation qu’ils pretendent détester.
C’est un vrai défi pour le Québec. Je ne veux trop simplifier la pression indéniable provoqué par les «impératifs économiques» et on ne peut pas éviter la «culture commercial mondialisée». Je comprends que les Québécois ne veulent pas s’isoler du monde et je ne le recommanderais, surtout à Montréal. Les grandes villes du monde sont le point de contact entre les cultures. La pureté culturel nuire à la vitalité d’une métropole. La ligne entre une attitude ouvert au monde, et une volonté de sauvegarder ce qu’est spécial ou au cœur de votre identité pourrait être difficile de négocier: de ce côté-ci on risque assimilation, de ce côté-là, la xénophobie. Une étape vers la resolution proposée par M. Brault:
« Pendant qu’on réclame volonté et ressources pour assurer le respect et la mise à jour des lois linguistiques nationales, nous devrions nous intéresser, à l’échelle métropolitaine, à cette arme de construction massive dont se servent de plus en plus les générations montantes : la création artistique et l’affirmation culturelle.»
Ça fait bon sens. Je dois ajoute que même si, pour soutenir la cause d’un Québec français, tous les anglophones du Québec devenaient parfaitment bilingue, ça ne ferait rien si les francophones cessent de s’en soucier.