Qui le dit ? L’éditorialiste du journal de quartier Free-Press NDG, David Goldberg, dans la dernière édition du bi-mensuel:
hampstead Ben Laden et Ben Duceppe éliminés ? Ya dla joie !
Happy days are here again !
Seeing the Bloc Québécois virtually wiped off the political map was almost as much fun as listening to President Barrack Obama describe Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of the US Navy Seals.

Je traduis: Voir le Bloc Québécois presque complètement lavé de la carte politique était presque aussi amusant que d’entendre le président Barack Obama décrire comment les forces spéciales américaines ont tué Ossama Ben Laden.

C’est beau, le bon voisinage, la tolérance et le respect mutuel.
(Merci à l’alertinternaute Louis F.
pour ce signalement.)
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Tory majority leaves plenty of local questions
THE FREE PRESS – May 10, 2011
So honestly, how many of you saw this
coming six weeks ago?
We heard the pollsters’ and the pundits’
predictions about the expected orange
wave in Quebec and the possibility of a
Conservative majority government, but
Monday night was still pretty friggin’
amazing anyways.
The Tory majority wasn’t that big of a
surprise, but seeing the Bloc Québécois
virtually wiped off the political map was
almost as much fun as listening to
President Barrack Obama describe
Osama bin Laden’s death at the hands of
US Navy SEALs.
Locally, however, we are left with plenty
of questions. In NDG -Lachine, long-time
MP Marlene Jennings was a victim of
Agent Orange, when virtually unknown
NDP candidate Isabelle Morin was elected.
Jennings, who served her constituents
well over her tenure here, took the defeat
with grace and class.
As for Morin, nobody is quite sure what
to expect. This honestly looked like a case
where the NDP, not really believing they
had a chance to upset Jennings, found a
candidate to hurl into the riding without
much thoughts about the consequences.
Morin is now just beginning to speak
English and was hard-pressed to respond
to reporter Isaac Olson during the campaign when he asked her about local
issues. She has an enormous learning
curve ahead, and we’re just all going to
have to pray she’s a quick study. But, for
now, we should give her a bit of a honeymoon
and see how she responds.
In Westmount-Ville Marie, former
astronaut and Liberal MP Marc Garneau
actually conceded defeat to NDP candidate
Joanne Corbeil. A little while later,
Garneau was back in the lead, much to his
relief. I bet lift-off from Cape Canaveral
was never this exciting, eh Marc?
Finally, in Mount Royal, incumbent
Liberal MP Irving Cotler fought off a challenge
from Conservative Saulie Zajdel to
win re-election. This was the only local
riding where the NDP candidate was
never a contender. Zajdel, on the other
hand, gave Cotler his toughest run ever,
but in the end, Zajdel couldn’t convince
enough voters that Cotler was anti-Semitic. Seems to me, Zajdel could have
come up with something a little more
credible as an attack strategy.
So, in the end, Stephen Harper has his
majority and we are stuck back in the
minority. That’s certainly not a new position
for anglophones in this province. But
looking on the bright side, who would
have thought we’d get rid of bin Laden
and Gilles Duceppe in the same week?
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David Goldberg is the editor of The Free
Press and communications coordinator for
Prevention NDG.