Quebec's Official Language Act

"Aspiring to political liberty, the Parti Quebecois's first objective is to achieve Quebec's sovereignty following a consultation of the population by a referendum held at the time considered appropriate by the government.  Until then, the Parti Quebecois will act as a sovereigntist government, seeking to acquire ever more power and means for Quebec and the Quebecois."  PQ official program

Pauline Marois learned the tricks of her separatist trade at the side of a separatist whose credentials need never be questioned.  She began her political career as a press attache to Jacques Parizeau in 1978.  His hissing denunciation of the monied and the ethnic vote as being responsible for the separation referendum loss when he was PQ leader must certainly have inspired his acolyte to aspire to a similar frame of reference.

Pauline Marois, in her election campaign stops, made allusions to the unacceptable attire of Jews, of Muslims and of Sikhs, marking them as 'different', assuring her public she would not allow that difference to be evidenced by the province's civil servants.  Her xenophobia is as ripe as the legendary bias-and-spite of her predecessor.

The language powers that the PQ now intends to wield in the province is clearly one that will flout the Official Languages Act; whereas all of the country will remain officially bilingual, Quebec alone will become officially unilingual, as a proud nation, restoring its heritage to the exclusion of the exasperating will of its citizens to speak both French and English.  Unlawful?  No matter.

Arms of the federal government operating in Quebec will be subject to Quebec's language law.  As will banks, railways, Air Canada and branches of Canada Post.  The Canada Council for the Arts can make its graceful exit; no longer required in Quebec.  CBC-Radio Canada will become a relic of the unspeakably dreadful past.

Thousands of businesses with their handful of employees must henceforth bow to the French-language imperative.  Access to English at CEGEPs will finally meet its earned fate.  All true Quebecois know they have no need for English.  Their pride and their way in the world will be accessed through speaking French, that incomparable language of romance and elegance.

Quebec's professionals, its entrepreneurs, its business class and industry may well do a re-think of their commitment to La Belle Province.  For the province under the PQ does not appear to be committed to their aspirations, to advance their opportunities for achievement in their spheres of influence.

In the Quebec of the proud PQ, advancing their culture and their language, crosses speak of heritage and are admissible; none other symbols of faith and heritage and culture need apply.  As for separation through a future referendum; a simple, really simple majority will do quite nicely, thank you for asking.