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Quebec, Canada & the Conservative Movement VOL 5, ISSUE 4 Winter 2012 Quebec, Canada & the Conservative Movement The Two Solitudes Persist Contents _ Winter 2012 Quebec, Canada and conservatism onservatives in English Canada have long been frustrated by Quebec. 3 . .Beware the CAQ: How the “efficient” left might Ctrack than the rest of the country. In the 2011 federal election, just as eliminate Québec’s only right- Politically speaking, the province has always seemed to be on a different of-centre party Canadians finally warmed to the Harper Tories, Quebec went 180 degrees in this issue of c2c, we examine why this happened and report on the state of The Quebec conservative scene has been conservatismthe opposite direction,in Quebec. embracing – for the first time – the socialist NDP. In shaken-up by the emergence of a new political movement -- and now official political party -- called the Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec (CAQ). Paul Conventional wisdom is that the NDP’s meteoric rise may be an isolated the coalition is not to be considered “conservative”Beaudry argues in that any despite sense of media the word, spin, incident – one election is a fluke, not a trend. Authors Bradley Doucet and Jasmin Guénette, Brendan Steven and Vincent Geloso examine the impacts and that the right-of-centre Action leastof the conservative NDP’s rise andof thewhat provinces, it means Quebecersfor conservatism have traditionally in the province been and as Quebec’s relationship with the rest of Canada. Despite its reputation as the démocratique du Québec (ADQ) should supportive as or more supportive than other Canadians when it comes to two rebuff attempts at a merger… conservative positions: an increased role for the private sector in healthcare, 6 . .The Future of Free Trade in Québec? and free trade. Did the May 11 election results change this? Does the rejection high in Quebec: federalists supported it We examine those questions and more. Support for free trade has tended to be by Quebec of the Harper Tories mean the country is more divided than ever? for economic reasons and sovereignists On the provincial political scene, there are other troubling signs on because it would allow the province to be less economically dependent on the rest Coalition pour of Canada. Will this change with the rise the horizon. As Paul Beaudry writes, the right-of-centre ADQ faces a new l’avenir du Québec G competitor as the third option at the provincial level. The of the NDP? Bradley Doucet and Jasmin advocates an even more(CAQ) activist is being government, portrayed as including being on protectionist the right, yet economic is at best uénette believe it could… 9 . .Q&A with Joanne policiescentrist. andThe stricter CAQ, headed enforcement by former of language PQ cabinet laws. minister Pressure François is mounting Legault, on Marcotte: the ADQ to merge with or even fold into this new entity. individual liberty in Quebec, about her new book and the state of conservatism C2C’s Joseph Quesnel interviews Joanne Marcotte, a pioneer in Quebec’s freedom in theWe province. also talk to Joanne Marcotte, a leading voice for free markets and movement, a co-founderPour en of finir the avec Réseau le Enjoy the issue. governemamaLiberté Québec and author of the recently-released C2C Editorial Board … 12 . .The Rise of the NDP (AKA, The Confusing Heritage of the Quiet Revolution) C2C Journal’s editorial board: With opinions polls indicating that on Patrick Callaghan, Adam Daifallah, Sylvia LeRoy, Al MacDermid, Heather Devlin many policy issues Quebecers have MacDermid, Shuvaloy Majumdar, Mark Milke, Joseph Quesnel, and Chris Schafer. conservative stances, the best way to Canadian Journal of Ideas Inc. explain the election of 59 MPs for the Website: www.c2cjournal.ca are because of the politically correct discourseNDP is to considerthat has dominatedhow confused the votershistory Email: [email protected] of province... Media Inquiries Mark Milke 14 . .The two solitudes Email: [email protected] make a comeback © Copyright 2011. Canadian Journal of Ideas Inc. All Rights Reserved. For permis- sion to reproduce an article, please contact the editors. The views expressed in C2C solitudesIs Quebec’s are province-wide as alienated from embrace each ofas do not necessarily reflect those of C2C, the editors, or the advisory board members. the NDP just more evidence that the two worries that language issues and the Editor of this issue: Adam Daifallah Quebecever, or merelyvs. the resta fluke? of Canada Brendan divide Steven will Associate Editor: Kathleen Welsch play a more prominent role in the next few years of Canadian politics... 2 Volume 5, Issue 4 Beware the CAQ: How the “efficient” left might eliminate Québec’s only right-of-centre party This past autumn in Quebec has been fraught with uncertainty for the Action démocratique du Que- bec (ADQ), the only provincial party to identify explicitly as right-of-centre. The ADQ’s existence is now threatened by the newly created Coalition pour l’avenir du Québec (CAQ) party, the brainchild of former Parti Québécois (PQ) minister Francois Legault and the successful entrepreneur Charles Sirois. Since the rise of the CAQ, the ADQ has been in talks with a CAQ about a potential merger. Paul Be- audry argues such a merger is wrongheaded. CAQ policies would not bring about the fiscal discipline and reforms needed to improve Quebec’s public finances. Instead, such policies would likely render a CAQ government’s performance largely indistinguishable from that of its predecessors. The ADQ re- mains the best political vehicle to promote market-friendly changes to the Quebec political landscape. As such, it ought to turn down the CAQ’s advances, and remain an independent political party. By Paul Beaudry known objectives are preventing the supposed exodus his past autumn in Québec has been fraught of corporate headquarters from Québec so that it with uncertainty for the Action démocratique does not become a “branch plant” economy. (Charles du Québec intervention to prevent foreign takeovers of Canadian Sirois has long crusaded in favour of government created Coalition pour(ADQ), l’avenir the onlydu Québec provincial party to identify explicitly as right-of-centre. The newly In recent months, a succession of Québec polls has (CAQ), the corporations.) brainchild of former Parti Québécois (PQ) minister François Legault and the successful entrepreneur indicated the CAQ would form the government in the earlyCharles 2011, Sirois, has threatensquickly gathered the ADQ’s popularity existence. with Thethe event of a provincial election. This even though the QuébecCAQ,T initially electorate, created which as hasa grassroots grown tired movement of a Québec in CAQ’s official existence as a political party did not occur until mid-November. a PQ under the shaky and contested leadership of Liberal Party plagued with corruption scandals and Although the CAQ was labeled “right-of-centre” by the Québec media, Legault refuses to accept that Pauline Marois. In this political environment, the CAQ label. Rather, he identifies himself and the CAQ as isVolume a welcome 5, Issue 4alternative. Among the CAQ’s better proponents of the “efficient left” (or “gauche efficace”). 3 generousHe does not social wish programs, to stray from a public the mainhealthcare tenets system of the government. That success was short-lived, however, andso-called an interventionist “Quebec model”, role forwhich the state is characterized in the economy. by as the ADQ caucus dwindled to three members from 43 after a brutal electoral performance in 2008. The arrival of the CAQ constitutes a real threat to the ofDespite their partythese ispositions, conditional many upon of athe merger members with andthe even the leadership of the ADQ think that the survival ADQ’s fusionist alliance and to Québec conservatives in general. Jean Allaire, one of the ADQ’s founders, in a letter to his party members, announced that CAQ. On November 7, 2011, ADQ leader Gérard Deltell, behas consideredpublicly indicated moderates, his support nationalists for a merger.and those The weeks and that any decision regarding a potential CAQ seems to appeal to those in the ADQ who may discussions with the CAQ would start in the coming who tend to simply align themselves with third-party beenmerger an wouldalliance need of nationalists the approval and of ADQ members. options. However,enthusiastic the economic about conservatives the prospects and of The conservative movement in Québec has historically libertarians amongsta merger. the party’s One of base the most have outspoken not been its success has relied on a variation Although the economic conservatives. As such, } CAQ was labeled opponents of a CAQ-ADQ merger is ideaof the that fusionism holders ofpromoted a wide array by U.S. of “right-of-centre” by well-known Québec businessman conservativepolitical thinker beliefs Frank should Meyer: work the the Québec media, commission;Adrien Pouliot, he a has libertarian-leaning not shied away together to promote a more limited Legault refuses to frommember heavily of criticizingthe ADQ’s many political of the and decentralized government. accept that label. the last several years is a result of Rather, he identifies TheCAQ’s CAQ’s interventionist unrelenting policies. thisThe politicalQuébec successversion ofof thefusionism. ADQ in himself and the CAQ protectionism as proponents of the Founded in 1994 as a nationalist “efficient left” (or protectionismBeyond ideological when criticisms,there is theno party by former Québec Liberals “gauche efficace”). evidenceCAQ’s policies of any unreasonably actual improvement favour disappointed with then-premier in the Québec economy. One of Robert Bourassa’s embrace of the He does not wish its most potentially damaging adoptionCharlottetown and Accord,implementation the original of to stray from the proposed policies is using the Caisse ADQ platform focused on the main tenets of the de dépôt et placement du Québec, for a more decentralized federation andthe Allaire the transfer Report, of whichpowers advocated from the so-called “Quebec as an economic development federal government to Québec.
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