• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    They won 46% of the seats with just 28% of the popular vote. The Liberals had 24% of the popular vote but won just 31% of the seats. This has more to do with gerrymandering and rural/urban splits than anything.

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      They don’t actually want to separate, they play on the emotions of old racist nationalists to get into power so they can cut public funding and cut taxes for the rich. Classic right-wing grift that profits off of a population that has been told that their culture is only tied to their French heritage. It’s just preferring one colonial power over another while ignoring every other nationality and race that helped build this province.

      Fuck the PQ.

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    This scum is an ultranationalist who was very good at using fearmongering to win: he went to a Zionist event claiming that the federal government is turning a blind eye to the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrating the country, complained about a La Presse article citing a poll that showed an increase in xenophobia (specifically a rise in people who believe immigration increases criminality) and called it a smear, and also complained about wokeism.

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    How many more will fall before something is done about social media misinformation!?

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    It’s long over due honestly and surprised it took them this long to win again. We had a referendum in 1980, another in '95, so them waiting to have another once Trump is out of office makes sense, 15 years overdue.

    They’ll pull the same thing in another 15 to 30 years once this one fails. it’s par the course.

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      They said one’s coming but not until Trump leaves office which barring invocation of the 25th Amendment to declare him incompetent or impeachment and removal from office will be January 2029.

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        He could also leave earlier if he dies, but could also stay later if the constitution is just ignored some more.

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    Let’s see if these nationalist pigs actually do something to help instead of just cutting spending on public services and wasting massive amounts of money on a referendum like they ALWAYS DO. People never learn here

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      The is the PQ, all they ever did is spend more on public services. You need to read more on this subject instead of spreading your ignorance.

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        Under Lucien Bouchard, the cuts were to healthcare and education, which led to the closing of several hospitals. Major reductions in school board budgets, and a controversial early retirement program that pushed thousands of nurses and doctors out prematurely, creating shortages that lasted for years.

        Under Pauline Marois, the PQ cut back funding for universities, school boards, and public daycare centres, while also implementing cuts to welfare payments for specific young families and older workers.

        I remember all this garbage the PQ did, because I was there, but go off and act like I’m being ignorant.

        These things are easy to Google, too.

        Fuck the PQ nationalist bastards, they are traitors to the working class.

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          Bouchard cut healthcare and education to get Quebec to zero deficit , the real damage came later when Charest open the valve for the private sector, this is when the “public part” of the health care system started its downward spiral. Legault opened the valve even more after that… As for Pauline Marois, she created the 5$ daycare(with Bouchard) and expended the drug-insurance system to everyone while she was Premier she also introduced the Parental Insurance Act, which would establish a Quebec plan providing maternity and paternity benefits. As for the universities , they all had their agenda, but Marois did cancelled the planned tuition increases (Charest ) but did simultaneously imposed significant university spending reductions.

          The PQ historically made a lot more for the “working class” than any other parties in Canada whether you like it or not. Just look at what Lévesque did in his first years in power: Anti-scab legislation (1977) — Quebec became the first Canadian province to prohibit replacement workers during a legal strike. Minimum wage increases, including a substantial increase shortly after taking office. Pay-equity and labour protections developed during the broader PQ reform period. Public automobile insurance (1978) — replacing private insurance for bodily injury with a public system. Expansion of social programs and public services. Greater taxation of higher incomes and redistribution. Stronger workplace and occupational-health protections. The government explicitly described itself as having a favourable bias toward workers.

          Many of those programs were later copied in the rest of Canada.

          As for calling them traitors and pigs, well that says a lot about you. Are Alberta’s separatists also traitors and pigs ?