tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890670589803512287.post4457412456328142650..comments2024-03-26T08:41:39.081-04:00Comments on Life on the Left: Quebec, Canada and the Indigenous Peoples: Toward Plurinational Alliances around a Decolonial Outlook?Richard Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00804371150784778433noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890670589803512287.post-20564351903551164672020-11-18T20:38:32.709-05:002020-11-18T20:38:32.709-05:00The ‘national question’ in Quebec, as the Quebec L...The ‘national question’ in Quebec, as the Quebec Left talks about it, should be a hyphenated question ‘settler/colonial-national question’. This transformation from settler colonial to national question is important to note. And it is equally important to note that it went back to become a settler/colonial question. <br /><br />The self determination referendums in 1980 and 1995 in Quebec were held in very different national and global political climates. The first was under the leadership of a Liberal leadership of Rene Levesque (the faith in Keynesiasm still flourishing) and the other was under the leadership of a neoliberal right wing leadership of Lucien Bouchard. The socialists, communists, and the entire spectrum of left wing formations in Quebec voted overwhelmingly for separation in 1995. Some leftist friends in Quebec told me then that they want to make Quebec independent and then make it socialist!! I asked them, independent from what? I am still waiting for a response 25 years later. This should not be simply brushed away. It is very important to note that the entire left voted for the neoliberal right wing project. And, as we all know, the blame of the loss was put on the ethnics! There was no condemnation of the statement issued by Parizeau from the Quebec left, including my own organization.<br /><br />The Quebec left in the past has miserably failed to see the settler colonial question. It is still unable to come to terms with this question.<br /><br />Quebec national question has to become a sub-set of the settler colonial question that has to be resolved. And why just Quebec’s national question? <br />feroznoreply@blogger.com