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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 1:53:32 GMT
oh shit that sounds really bad actually, I hadn't heard that but hard to find news on TV that focuses on things outside this Provence
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 2:06:31 GMT
The BC Liberals are one of the most corrupt parties we've seen in a while in this province... and that comes from a former Liberal!
Of course, BC Liberals have nothing to do with Federal (or Quebec) Liberals. They're much more like the Federal Conservatives.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 2:09:17 GMT
damn and here the Quebec Liberal party is the one doing its best to make sure english speakers get rights and stuff and find equalty among the french and English . strange how seemingly the same party is really only the same in name
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 2:24:16 GMT
The only party with an organization structure that goes beyond their own sphere (Provincial, Federal, whathaveyou) is the NDP. Though even they have some regional differences.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 2:31:10 GMT
I don't even know what the NDP is. ultimately to me political stuff all seems to be rather shit when dealing with the public and rather focus on money and rich people, and that kinda sucks
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 2:37:38 GMT
The NDP are more left wing than the Liberals (federal ones anyway) and Conservatives. So in theory they care about workers, middle and lower class people, and being generally progressive. But hey, they're still politicians.
Last federal election they totally swept Quebec, reducing the Bloc Quebecois to a grand total of two seats federally. They aren't, I think, a force provincially in Quebec.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 2:41:29 GMT
hm I don't know if they are, I just know we have a liberal party here and I voted for it every time since I turned 18
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 2:48:17 GMT
Well, if they are there, they didn't figure in the last election.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 2:52:26 GMT
couldn't tell you, I got very little knowledge when it comes to politics
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 3:09:49 GMT
The liberals are in power over there now though, aren't they? I think it is a minority, so change won't be super easy, but it looks like the province is just getting less and less keen on the separatists.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 3:22:32 GMT
actually voting had to take place twice times because uproar kept happening that the Liberals were not getting the majority that the general population wanted them to have, to be the majority they must have more then 50% of a win in the voting, at first it didn't with about 47 and the party-Quebecqua winning majority, but then right out of the gate they voted to pass a bill that would force french students into french colleges and deny them access to english colleges in a clear attempt to let the english Cegeps (college) die due to lack of students. The Party-Quebecqua though had stated they would not do this and this won the votes of all straight out of high school 18 year olds and already college going french students to vote, when they lied and within a few weeks moved to pass bill 15 their was an uproar and a move for a second vote was called and this time the Liberals won majority to the dismay of the lying Party-Quebecqua
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 3:28:22 GMT
Hah, majority?! Wonderful!
That sounds like with the Liberals here. They won an election saying they wouldn't implement the HST... they get in and immediately implement the HST. Despite having a majority, their leader is forced to resign.
Doesn't explain how they won another majority in the next election though.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 3:30:12 GMT
fun story actually, when the first voting took place I had found myself quite the fish out of water in a room full of French people that were attending the same college as me but we're rather new to english, I figured they all voted Party-Quebecqua and thus assumed me voicing I voted Liberal would be bad, so we are all sitting and watching the voting and the greatest thing happened, the TV says "the Party has won the majority" and all the French people at the same time get mad, swear and are over all disappointed in the voting. this shocked the hell out of me and made me feel like an ass for assuming they would vote for the "French first party"
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Post by Canuovea on Jun 21, 2015 3:33:40 GMT
Yeah, I've heard that the students are pissed at the Partie Quebecois, but I didn't fully know why.
But it is easy to assume things about people, we all do it, but it is nice when our expectations are improved upon.
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Post by Tech on Jun 21, 2015 3:43:57 GMT
side note thank you for not pointing out my incorrect spelling of the party name
now you know why students hate the Partie, people already hate bill 101 that has been dubbed "the death to the english bill" that was passed by the Bloc so many years ago that forces kids into french first and secondary schooling as well as many other dumb language laws and spawned the language police. so of corse people will be pissed when they try to push a bill that now extends the forced attendance to french schooling to College
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