I'm sorry ... excuse me?
TORONTO, CHICOUTIMI, QUE., KITCHENER, ONT. — Stephen Harper has offered a symbolic carrot to Quebec cultural nationalists, promising to enshrine the francophone representation on the body that regulates Canada's airwaves.
The promise, which the Conservative Leader unveiled in a speech in Chicoutimi, Que., Wednesday night, would see the job of chair of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission alternate from English to French speakers, while the two vice-chair jobs would be held by one English speaker and one French speaker.
The chair's job already typically alternates, but the Conservatives want to make that a legal requirement.
Apparently, having savagely opposed them for years, conservatives are suddenly big fans of quotas. Who knew?
P.S. Dear Quebec nationalists: That symbolic carrot? Yeah, Stephen's going to be wanting that back at some point.
2 comments:
Shouldn't that have read
"promising to enshrine the francophone representation on the body that regulates Canada's airwaves... until such time as we are able to completely dismantle it because regulation is a communist plot..."
? Maybe they left that part out by accident. Silly speech-writers.
"The chair's job already typically alternates"
Until, ironically, the Conservatives came to power and appointed an anglophone to succeed another anglophone.
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