City Councillor: Immigration

Anglophone Community Dept: Mind you, it took Mazzone to approach Deltell instead of vice-versa, which would have demonstrated more initiative on the leader's part, but at least it's a start toward what could develop into something interesting. Certainly the anglophone community could do with a viable voting alternative. The Parti Qu b cois offers no attraction, while the Liberals regard anglophones as a captive voting bloc that they hardly have to bother courting. But if it hopes to get anywhere on the West Island or other anglo enclaves, the ADQ has a lot of catching up to do, according to Montreal Gazette. While it would be helpful for the party's prospects, winning over the anglo vote, or at least a significant portion thereof, won't be enough to bring it within hailing distance of power. For that it will have to capture the greater part of the francophone vote, which is what decides elections in Quebec. And to have any hope of achieving that, it would appear the ADQ will have to strike an accommodation with Fran ois Legault and his nascent Coalition for the future of Quebec and it's good to see Quebec's third provincial party, Action d mocratique du Qu bec, taking a stab, however tentative, at courting the anglo vote. To that end party leader G rard Deltell has taken on a new special adviser for Montreal and the Englishspeaking community in the person of Montreal West city councillor Dino Mazzone. Unlike the PQ, the ADQ has not been overtly hostile to anglophone community aspirations, but it has for the most part been tonedeaf to anglo concerns. Under former leader Mario Dumont it backed the PQ's misbegotten Montreal Island municipal merger scheme. It has campaigned for the elimination of school boards, the anglophone community's only elective representative bodies. When the reasonable-accommodation debate arose, the ADQ was the party most closely allied with the intolerant elements famously typified by the H rouxville town council's manifesto on proper immigrant behaviour. As reported in the news.
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