Language Charter: Heritage Fund

Teacher Salaries Dept: If Mr. Legault can overturn those entrenched positions, it would be a major achievement for Quebec, and for Canada. The party is still in its infancy and therefore can t be expected to be ready to govern yet but its platform needs work, according to Globe and Mail. And on language and culture, the Coalition s platform flirts with radical PQ positions. The Coalition wants to flatline immigration targets in order to allow time for the integration policies to be redeployed, and to go further in applying the French language Charter despite the growing strength of French in Quebec and the Coalition s leader, the popular former PQ minister Fran ois Legault, was essentially correct in his diagnosis of the main problem in Quebec politics: For more than 40 years the context has forced us to define ourselves first and foremost as either sovereigntist or federalist. A lot of its simple promises don t add up. Mr. Legault is right to promote an Alberta Heritage Fund-style vehicle to save natural-resource revenues. But it s hard to imagine him doing that, while raising teacher salaries by 20 per cent, spending more on universities, ensuring that every Quebecker has a family doctor and balancing the budget. At the same time, Mr. Legault backed away from more private-sector delivery in health care a natural opportunity for cost savings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.