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Originally Posted by hipster duck
So the first three aren’t problems, they’re ideals. If they were problems, you’d be telling me that Québécois fear that the province is becoming increasingly less peaceful and that governance is decaying in the province. If that’s happening, those are serious problems! But I don’t think they are.
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In the general sense of “ballot box issues”, the first three are very important factors. Quebec hasn’t elected someone who wasn’t a “competent manager” in… forever (I actually don’t ever recall us electing an unknown quantity at the provincial level). Going back decades, we only ever elected Hillarys, no Trumps.
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And the last two have an “it’s ultimately English Canada’s fault” vibe to them, which was what I specifically wanted to avoid.
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Not really. And definitely not in the right wing Albertan sense of blaming the Feds for everything that’s wrong. It’s very much considered an “it’s up to Quebec to handle this one itself” issue. As kool said, the libertarian non intrusive way is STILL the Anglo-American steamroller, it’s a bit like the weather, you just have to deal with it (or fail to, in which case it’s your fault, not Mother Nature’s).
Inflation is a “problem”, but it’s well understood to not be the provincial government fault, so it doesn’t register at the ballot box provincially.
Real estate isn’t yet a problem, but if it ever becomes one, foreign buyers pouring gazillions of laundered imported cash into the Montreal market would be seen as a Federal issue.