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.
Shouldn't that have read
ReplyDelete"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"
ReplyDeleteUntil, ironically, the Conservatives came to power and appointed an anglophone to succeed another anglophone.