Title: The Bilingual Belt Post by: minionofmidas on July 10, 2004, 07:54:45 AM It's Demography, not Politics, but still...
Out of Canada's 308 "ridings" (constituencies), 40 are over 10% French speaking and over 10% English speaking. They form something of a belt from Nova Scotia to Manitoba via Montréal and Ottawa cities. (Note that the census asks for "mother tongue", prompting many immigrants and children of immigrants to mention the language from back home, even if they speak English these days. This seriously affects the number of over-10%-English speaking seats in Montréal.) West Nova (In NSc) Egmont (on Prince Edward Island) Acadie-Bathurst Madawaska-Restigouche Beauséjour Miramichi Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe Tobique-Mactaquac (all of them in NB. The first three are majority French speaking) Gaspésie - Iles-de-la-Madeleine Compton - Stanstead Brôme - Missiqoui (rural Québec to the South of St Lawrence - English seems once to have been more widely spoken here, as viz. place names like Sherbrooke, Drummond, Richmond etc etc) Outremont, Mount Royal, Notre-Dame-de-la-Grace - Lachine, Westmount - Ville-Marie, La Salle - Emard, Jeanne - Le Ber, St-Laurent - Cartierville, Pierrefonds - Dollard, Lac-St-Louis (all on Montréal Island, which includes a total of 18 ridings - Lac-St-Louis is almost 50% English speaking, but 7 out of these 9 are less than 50% French, and so are two more that are less than 10% English) Brossard - La Praire Châtauguay - Saint-Constant Saint Lambert Laval - Les Isles (all suburban Montréal) Vaudreuil - Solanges where the Ottawa and St Lawrence rivers meet Hull - Aylmer and Pontiac opposite Ottawa in Québec Ottawa Centre, Ottawa South, Ottawa Vanier, Ottawa Orléans - ie all Ottawa City ridings safe one Glengarry - Prescott - Russell and Stormont - Dundas - South Glengarry to the South of Ottawa, to the east of Vaudreuil - Solanges. Glengarry etc is majority French speaking pretty much all the Northeast Ontario ridings, with French percentages ranging into the forties: Timmins - James Bay Nipissing - Timiskaning Nickel Belt Algoma - Manitoulin - Kapuskasing Sudbury plus Provencher in rural SE Manitoba and St Boniface in Winnipeg. Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on July 10, 2004, 08:21:48 AM It's Demography, not Politics, but still... Out of Canada's 308 "ridings" (constituencies), 40 are over 10% French speaking and over 10% English speaking. They form something of a belt from Nova Scotia to Manitoba via Montréal and Ottawa cities. (Note that the census asks for "mother tongue", prompting many immigrants and children of immigrants to mention the language from back home, even if they speak English these days. This seriously affects the number of over-10%-English speaking seats in Montréal.) Actually it *is* politics... the area used to be called the Red Belt (Red as in Liberal). Let's see if it still is... West Nova: Acadian, Liberal Egmont: Acadian, Liberal Acadie-Bathurst: Acadian, NDP (Yvon Godin's seat. It's an old Zinc mining area) Madawaska-Restigouche: Acadian, Liberal (NDP came second though) Beauséjour: Acadian, Liberal Miramichi: Acadian, Liberal Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe: Acadian, Liberal Tobique-Mactaquac: Acadian, Liberal, Bible Belt Gaspésie - Iles-de-la-Madeleine: BQ. I think some Acadians. Compton - Stanstead: BQ, Eastern Townships I think... Brôme - Missiqoui: Liberal, Eastern Townships (Loyalists) again I think... Outremont, Mount Royal, Notre-Dame-de-la-Grace - Lachine, Westmount - Ville-Marie, La Salle - Emard, Jeanne - Le Ber, St-Laurent - Cartierville, Pierrefonds - Dollard, Lac-St-Louis Brossard -La Praire: All Liberal (though I think that one is going to a recount) Châtauguay - Saint-Constant: BQ Saint Lambert: Can't remember. Laval - Les Isles: Lib Vaudreuil - Solanges where the Ottawa and St Lawrence rivers meet: Jack Layton grew up here, suprise BQ gain Hull - Aylmer and Pontiac: Both Liberal Ottawa Centre, Ottawa South, Ottawa Vanier, Ottawa Orléans - ie all Ottawa City ridings safe one: All Liberal except for Ottawa Centre (Ed Broadbent's seat) Glengarry - Prescott - Russell and Stormont - Dundas - South Glengarry to the South of Ottawa, to the east of Vaudreuil - Solanges. Glengarry etc is majority French speaking: G-P-R is Liberal (Don Boudria's seat) and saw some nasty language politics (Anglo's: Tory, Franco's: Ultra-Grit), S-D-SG is Tory (same language wars apply) Timmins - James Bay: Franco's went there 'cos of mining. NDP seat. Nipissing - Timiskaning: Liberal. Used to be Mike "Godfather" Harris's seat provincially (strange as this may seem). Nickel Belt: Liberal (provincially NDP though) Franco's vote Liberal out of reflex. Algoma - Manitoulin - Kapuskasing: Liberal (Used to be L.B.Pearson's seat. NDP did shockingly well though) Sudbury: Liberal Provencher: Metis vote Liberal, everyone else votes Tory. Very safe CPC seat. St Boniface: Liberal (NDP provincially though). The Red Belt still sort of applies... Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: minionofmidas on July 10, 2004, 08:27:23 AM Jeanne - Le Ber did go to a recount, but that's already finished. Remains Liberal by seventy votes or so.
St Lambert went Bloc by about 10 points, I guess a gain. Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on July 10, 2004, 08:42:43 AM Jeanne - Le Ber did go to a recount, but that's already finished. Remains Liberal by seventy votes or so. St Lambert went Bloc by about 10 points, I guess a gain. Any news on New West-Co? Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on July 10, 2004, 04:36:22 PM Interesting trend... with the exception of Acadie-Bathurst, the Bilingual ridings not in Quebec the Liberals win the Franco vote and lose the Anglo vote, while in Quebec it's the other way round.
Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: minionofmidas on July 11, 2004, 10:21:02 AM Interesting trend... with the exception of Acadie-Bathurst, the Bilingual ridings not in Quebec the Liberals win the Franco vote and lose the Anglo vote, while in Quebec it's the other way round. Or maybe the Liberals are just seen in Canada as the all-Canadian party. Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on July 11, 2004, 12:48:52 PM Interesting trend... with the exception of Acadie-Bathurst, the Bilingual ridings not in Quebec the Liberals win the Franco vote and lose the Anglo vote, while in Quebec it's the other way round. Or maybe the Liberals are just seen in Canada as the all-Canadian party. I think a lot of it is for historical reasons... Franco Ontarians got a rough time of it from the Provincial PC's... the "Battle of Hastings" (a provincial by-election in the '30's where the Ontario Tories whipped up a load of anti-catholic/francophone sentiment) is a good example. Another example would be the treatment the Acadians got from the Anglo-Scots establishment in the Maritimes... which returned ominously in the early '90's with the CoR. And would have this year in Tobique-Mactaquac (where the CPC ran an ex-CoR member) had the Grit incumbent not been a very, very good constituancy MP. In Eastern Ontario and the Maritimes it clearly is a case of minorities voting leftward... not in Northern Ontario though. Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: English on July 12, 2004, 04:11:11 AM Canada should be completely bi-lingual, that's my opinion. I have English speaking Canadian friends who agree!!
Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: minionofmidas on July 12, 2004, 07:58:00 AM Interesting trend... with the exception of Acadie-Bathurst, the Bilingual ridings not in Quebec the Liberals win the Franco vote and lose the Anglo vote, while in Quebec it's the other way round. Or maybe the Liberals are just seen in Canada as the all-Canadian party. I think a lot of it is for historical reasons... Franco Ontarians got a rough time of it from the Provincial PC's... the "Battle of Hastings" (a provincial by-election in the '30's where the Ontario Tories whipped up a load of anti-catholic/francophone sentiment) is a good example. Another example would be the treatment the Acadians got from the Anglo-Scots establishment in the Maritimes... which returned ominously in the early '90's with the CoR. And would have this year in Tobique-Mactaquac (where the CPC ran an ex-CoR member) had the Grit incumbent not been a very, very good constituancy MP. In Eastern Ontario and the Maritimes it clearly is a case of minorities voting leftward... not in Northern Ontario though. Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: Filuwaúrdjan on July 12, 2004, 08:01:04 AM Interesting trend... with the exception of Acadie-Bathurst, the Bilingual ridings not in Quebec the Liberals win the Franco vote and lose the Anglo vote, while in Quebec it's the other way round. Or maybe the Liberals are just seen in Canada as the all-Canadian party. I think a lot of it is for historical reasons... Franco Ontarians got a rough time of it from the Provincial PC's... the "Battle of Hastings" (a provincial by-election in the '30's where the Ontario Tories whipped up a load of anti-catholic/francophone sentiment) is a good example. Another example would be the treatment the Acadians got from the Anglo-Scots establishment in the Maritimes... which returned ominously in the early '90's with the CoR. And would have this year in Tobique-Mactaquac (where the CPC ran an ex-CoR member) had the Grit incumbent not been a very, very good constituancy MP. In Eastern Ontario and the Maritimes it clearly is a case of minorities voting leftward... not in Northern Ontario though. Yep Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: cwelsch on July 17, 2004, 06:11:20 AM Everything is politics if it affects how you see the world, how you vote, or how you feel. Anything to woo your vote can fall into the realm of politics, from language and nationality, to a smile and a handshake, to jobs and subsidies.
Title: Re:The Bilingual Belt Post by: minionofmidas on July 17, 2004, 11:20:44 AM Everything is politics if it affects how you see the world, how you vote, or how you feel. Anything to woo your vote can fall into the realm of politics, from language and nationality, to a smile and a handshake, to jobs and subsidies. |