Freed: Trump's boorish behaviour overshadowed this week's big news |
There’s been oodles of news the past week: Mark Carney got his majority government, Christine Fréchette is our new Quebec premier and the Canadiens are in the playoffs.
Not to mention the stunning moon flyover.
But, as usual, it has all been overshadowed by TrumpaTrumpaTrumpaTrump.
Here’s the latest news, along with big news from the future.
In Quebec: We just got a new premier whose name few anglophones even knew until last week.
Christine, er … uh … Fréchette is a female Gen Xer who hopes to give the CAQ a younger, more hip, pragmatic look.
But she has to defend a party that’s been looking old and dated. Much of the CAQ leadership race was about toughening language laws yet again and limiting the number of French-speaking immigrants.
Fréchette wants to keep us at an already miniscule 45,000 newcomers, although Quebec’s birth rate is shrinking rapidly and our towns are crying out for workers.
But Fréchette is practically an open-door compared to the PQ, who want the limit set at 35,000. But why not 20,000? Or 10,000?
Maybe we don’t need any immigrants at all. I guess we native Quebecers will fill all those empty jobs as farm workers, fruit-pickers, dishwashers, daycare workers and janitors.
If we’re ever in hospital, we can all be our own orderlies.
Canada: Mark Carney’s Liberals........