Secularism & the Quebec Student Protests

Secularism & the Quebec Student Protests

The mess on the streets is the product of a long history; this generation of politicians arrived late in the day. Like the last nine premiers of that unhappy province, Charest did not launch the Quiet Revolution, did not evacuate the old moral order, did not invent the entitlement culture, did not pull the lever that left the province dangling over bottomless debt. He merely piled on, recklessly - as every politician does in his turn, who does not wish to be eaten. And now he has the ill luck to be in office, when all the chickens have come home to roost.

That he has no idea what he is doing, is almost beside the point. We can’t blame him for what he inherited. For all practical purposes, Quebec is Greece.

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