🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly fears democracy in Quebec

Marc Miller, now minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, says referendums are divisive and emotional. Rich coming from a federal machine that spent years inflaming every cultural fault line it could find while lecturing the country about identity. With the PQ leading and over 70 per cent of Quebecers still opposed to separation, Ottawa is already waving its hands because the wrong people might win, as reported.

The real tell is not Miller’s pearl-clutching. It is the federal instinct to meddle first, then preach unity. Paul St-Pierre Plamondon accused Ottawa of interference after Mark Carney and Christine Fréchette conveniently rolled out joint announcements before the writ. Classic Liberal centralism dressed up as cooperation. Quebecers are told they want governments to work together, which usually means submit quietly to the same post-national managerial blob that gave Canada mass immigration, cultural dilution, and sovereignty on layaway. Ottawa does not hate division. It hates losing control.

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