OttoSchloss
Active Member
Toronto was ascendant anyways. The stock exchange had been larger for decades before the PQ. What bill101 did was hasten everything along. Toronto was just a better place for business.
The bill in principle seems like an enlightened secular path but the truth is, it's an attempt at social engineering and those always fail. It might work in certain European jurisdictions (it won't) where immigrants are definitely second class citizens but it doesn't really wash in a country that is essentially made up of successive immigrant populations (despite how long your people might have been here -excluding its original inhabitants). But in the end it's probably just a chess move by Pauline to shore up support in an us (Quebecois) versus them (ROC) way. Manipulative politicking at its worst.
The bill in principle seems like an enlightened secular path but the truth is, it's an attempt at social engineering and those always fail. It might work in certain European jurisdictions (it won't) where immigrants are definitely second class citizens but it doesn't really wash in a country that is essentially made up of successive immigrant populations (despite how long your people might have been here -excluding its original inhabitants). But in the end it's probably just a chess move by Pauline to shore up support in an us (Quebecois) versus them (ROC) way. Manipulative politicking at its worst.
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