WHY NOT AN ANGLOPHONE?
In some quarters, there is jubilation that Stéphane Dion has relented and
given the Liberal nomination in Westmount-Ville-Marie, as safe a seat as the Liberals still have, to “star candidate” Marc Garneau.
But there should be no rejoicing among anglophones, who are once again
getting the back of the Liberals’ hand. As francophone seats become harder
for the Liberals to win, the party is giving its anglophone/allophone
bastions to “star” francophones who can’t win elsewhere. In the 2006
election, Garneau got just 28 per cent of the vote in Vaudreuil-Soulanges
riding.
Quebec’s non-francophones, fawningly loyal to the Liberal brand, are treated
in return with disdain bordering on contempt.