Québec Solidaire intensifies its reactionary campaign for an independent capitalist state wsws.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wsws.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Faced with a resurgence of class struggle, sections of the ruling class are seeking to revive the political party that has historically been used to divert and derail the militant struggles of Quebec workers with the crucial assistance of its allies in the trade union bureaucracy.
Tourism Minister Caroline Proulx explained her decision by stating that the event would promote anti-abortion views, which she said are contrary to the core values of Quebec.
A new stage has been reached in the Quebec ruling elite’s promotion of an explicitly chauvinistic Quebec nationalism, with the media and all four parties in the National Assembly lending support to hysterical claims of a “federalist plot” to destroy the “Quebec nation” through “mass” immigration.