Stockland: Conservative movement in Quebec is rising (1)

As usual, Calgary author Ezra Levant said it best without perhaps fully appreciating the significance of what he’d just said.

“The average age would not be 25 for a right-wing event in Alberta,” Levant told about 500 conservatives gathered in Quebec City last week for the founding meeting of the Reseau Liberte Quebec (Quebec Freedom Network). “I feel like an old man.”

Levant spent 75 minutes last Saturday morning delivering his trademark snappy patter on the horrors of human rights commissions, the grim litany of threats to free speech in this country and the evils of acquiescing to the “fascist theocracy” of militant Islam.

Yet, it was his ad lib exit line on the youthful composition of the audience, and his own relationship to it, that stood as his most compelling observation.

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3 Responses to Stockland: Conservative movement in Quebec is rising (1)

  1. nomdeblog says:

    It’s interesting that Ezra was chosen as a speaker and that he noted ““The average age would not be 25 for a right-wing event in Alberta,” Levant told about 500 conservatives gathered in Quebec City last week for the founding meeting of the Reseau Liberte Quebec (Quebec Freedom Network). “I feel like an old man.”

    If we want the entrepreneurial free market thinking of Mad Max and the RLQ to gather steam and begin the strengthening of the Canadian Federation by more devolution to the Provinces; then we need to cut the election funding to the Bloc and call the hearse.

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    • Jack says:

      “then we need to cut the election funding to the Bloc and call the hearse.”

      “But, but….” that would mean nobody but conservatives would ever have the money to run an election campaign because Harper would have to cut everyone off in order to keep things fair.

      And of course they would all run whining to the GG and we’ve seen that movie before.

      On the other hand……

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  2. stageleft says:

    Maybe they have a hope later on, but for now, Ekos says

    The latest EKOS poll shows Stephen Harper’s Conservatives would eke out a weak minority government, losing 28 seats of their 142 seats – and testing the mettle of new Governor-General David Johnston – were an election were held today.

    Projections based on the poll suggest Michael Ignatieff’s Liberals would win 100 seats, an increase from the 76 they hold now. The NDP would have 32, down from their current 36. The Bloc would win a huge number – 60 of the 75 seats in Quebec, up from the 47 they hold now. And the Green Party would also be a winner, taking one seat in British Columbia.

    (bold emphasis mine)

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