a wolf angel is not a good angel

John F. from Edmonton, Canada writes: Has anyone every conceived of the idea that an English or minority person could every be Premier of Quebec? No way, unless you want to be taken to the back room and shot.

Well, let’s look at the history of premiers in the country:

BC: one Indian (India), no francophones or other minorities.
Alberta: all white anglophones!
Saskatchewan: same!
Manitoba: same!
Ontario: same!
Quebec: a number of bilingual (one parent each) premiers, but no anglophones or other minorities.
NB: back to the white anglophones.
PEI: nope.
NS: nuh uh.
Nfld/Labrador: white and anglo again.

Yukon: possibly a few Inuit, hard to tell.
NWT: primarily Inuit.
Nunavut: just one, Inuit.

So, you know, no Canada doesn’t seem to be great at premiers who differ from “white anglo male”, except in the areas where people are mostly francophone (then we move to white francophone male, or occasionally white bilingual male) or Inuit (Inuit multilingual male). And this is absolutely a problem, but not so much a problem here in particular as a problem everywhere.

Crusty Curmudgeon from Ottawa, Canada writes: I have heard in several of the posts that Quebecers vote strategically. [ . . . ] All work in the rest of Canada will require work permits — and oh, by the way, don’t assume that we need your skills and that a work permit will be rubber stamped.

Except we’re all Canadians and won’t have our citizenship stripped, so no one will actually need a work permit. And like all Canadians, we vote strategically. Everyone does, something which is often noted as a problem in elections.

Also, people, separatist government doesn’t really mean there will be another referedum (please please).

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