Breaking the quiet 32/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The Dutch withdrawal comes as the European Union attempts to reform the treaty. The Netherlands will withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), the latest European country to leave the contentious international agreement that has been criticized for the protections it offers to fossil fuel projects, Politico reported. THE WORLD, BRIEFLY Giving Up THE NETHERLANDS Canada will see the effects of his approach over the next few years. ![]() Legault appears to have found a balance to the conundrum of needing to attract more people while exploiting them for votes. Retirements among the province’s aging population are expected to make matters much worse in the coming years, added the Montreal Gazette. The permits reflect how the province is in desperate need of workers, reported the Toronto Star. Oddly, Legault has presided over an explosion in temporary foreign worker permits, which increased from around 13,000 in 2017 to more than 30,000 last year. “It says to them, ‘You don’t have to love Canada but you don’t have to leave it either.’” The Economist summed up why the party which he founded in 2011 appeals to voters: “The party appeals to Quebeckers’ comfort zone by not requiring them to make a difficult decision,” Jean-François Lisée, a Parti Québécois political strategist, told the British magazine. The two groups that traditionally dominate Quebec’s politics, the pro-business, pro-union Liberal Party and Parti Québécois, a social democratic party that supports independence, came in second and fourth. His party went from 76 seats in the 125-member National Assembly to 90. This month’s election appeared to be another step in the 65-year-old former businessman’s campaign to address the wrongs that he sees in the province’s society, the New York Times wrote. ![]() The law might appear to infringe on people’s civil rights but a Canadian court upheld it, added the BBC. He also signed a law that forbids civil servants, including teachers, from wearing religious symbols. Meanwhile, Legault signed a law compelling Quebec’s municipalities with few English-speaking residents to only provide services in French, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported, even though businesses have raised concerns about how such a move would harm the economy as it comes into effect in the next few years. “Eighty percent of immigrants go to Montreal, don’t work, don’t speak French or don’t accept the values of Quebec society,” said Quebec’s Immigration Minister Jean Boulet before the election. Using nameless foreigners rather than English-speaking Canadians as a threat was a surprising twist on the usual Québécois politicians’ approach of appealing to their constituents’ unique French-speaking identity, especially in a country that has an unusual consensus on the need to welcome immigrants, with most complaining that entry is too hard, VOA reported. Proposing a cap of 50,000 immigrants into the province annually in order to prevent the dilution of French-speaking residents, Legault told the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal in late September that more newcomers into the province would be “suicide,” according to the National Post. Instead, he enlarged his Coalition Avenir Québec’s share of parliament by condemning immigration on the campaign trail. Incumbent Québécois Premier Francois Legault, however, opted to forgo talk of breaking from the rest of the country for the provincial elections on Oct. Politicians in Quebec usually use secession from the federal union of Canada as a wedge issue when seeking votes. ![]()
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