In politics, they’re called “wedge issues” – ideas or politics designed to pit one part of the electorate against the others, usually around something highly emotional, even if not terribly relevant. The Parti Québécois’s Charter of Quebec Values is just such a “wedge issue.” It is designed politically to rally so-called pure laine francophone voters around the PQ, because too many of them turned off the party and away from Quebec secession, the party’s reason for being.
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