Louise Harel, who is one of the two major candidates in the November 1st Montreal mayoralty election, the other being two time mayor Gérald Tremblay, has decided that she is not comfortable enough in the language of 12 per cent of the population of Montreal, English, and the language preferred by the 20 per cent of the city that are cheerfully referred to as allophones, English, so she will not debate Mayor Tremblay on CTV Montreal.
The Montreal Gazette rolls with that news on its front page this morning informing all that the half-hour debate would have taken place Oct. 25, a week before the Nov. 1 vote, and Ms. Harel, a former Parti Quebecois minister, had been offered any combination of simultaneous translation. Not good enough.
Ms. Harel was the minister of municipal affairs who forced amalgamation in communities like Hull/Aylmer/Gatineau and in Montreal and and her track record indicates that she doesn't listen to others' opinions unless they agree with her.
She has selected out the 12 per cent anglo vote and the 20 per cent allophone vote but is crushing the incumbent among the 68 per cent of Montrealers who are francophones.
WFDS
And thus she nor her team will never get my vote.
ReplyDeleteMontreal is a French-speaking city, and the largest in the French-speaking province of Quebec. What's the problem?
ReplyDeleteHow's O'Brian's French coming along, by the way?
1. Thanks for taking time out from your day to read the World Famous Dan Shields and send a note.
ReplyDelete2. Whether or not Larry 0'Brien speaks French is a non sequitor.
3. The point I was making was that Ms. Harel is selecting out 32 per cent of voters which makes her task of winning the mayoralty a difficult one.
That is it, that is all.