What English Canadians need to understand about Quebec, the NDP and Thomas Mulcair

By Pierre Beaudet; February 28, 2012 – rabble.ca
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/pierre-beaudet/2012/02/what-…

It is always amazing to observe the ignorance of the Canadian left when it comes to Quebec politics. The reasons for this, I believe, are similar to what blocked the English left over Ireland for decades, as well as the French left over their African empire. It is costly in the short term to oppose its “own” imperialism, because it is supported by a very wide popular colonial mentality. But in the long term, it is deadly.

In any

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