Quebec General Election 2012 (4th September)

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All of your stories are in French...

It's not that hard to read, is it?

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What are the rules? Could I run for the ADQ?

You're not a resident of Quebec, so presumably the answer is no.

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Well, kaka means poop, is that what you're trying to get at? Interestingly, I think the term is used more in Quebec.

It's a Romance term, I thought. It's certainly common in both Spanish and Portuguese; Brazilians were quite aware of what it went to have a player named Kaká on their national team.

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Choice between three parties of the centre-left and one of the far left? (QS) What choice is that? Unless you're explicitly separatist like the PQ/QS I don't care about the nationalism so long as they're fiscally Blue . My dream is for a new ADQ to form with a good leader and team sometime in the next decade or so. A rightist Levesque, essentially.

Calling the Liberals center-left seems wrong to me; it implies that they stand for something.

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*Facepalm*

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/gets+assist+from+Habs/5884884/story.html

This was being talked about on SportsCenter yesterday. I can imagine it must have been discussed at length on SportsCentre.

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It is big in the news here (not just sports news).

I think it is silly and don't give a damn, but it makes me loathe the nationalists.

For the X: SportsCenter is the ESPN version and SportsCentre is the TSN version?

Indeed.

I do think that the Habs should have a French-speaking coach, because I like when sports teams stand for something. As can be seen from their name, the Canadiens were founded as the club for the ethnically Canadian population of Montreal. English Montrealers had their own club, the Maroons.

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The problem with your formulation is that those folks immigrated to Canada. If I spoke neither French nor English, and, was admitted to Canada, I would strive to learn English before French. That would be equally true even if I initially settled in Quebec.

This is eminently ridiculous. Canada is a bilingual nation. Immigrants to Quebec should be expected to learn French in the same way as immigrants to British Columbia should be expected to learn English.

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It's a little bit overly reductive to say that federal and provincial politics have no effect on one another (the NDP's poor performance in Nova Scotia and Manitoba in 2011 can be attributed to the NDP being in power in those provinces), but there's no relationship whatsoever between the Parti Québécois and the New Democratic Party.