Die NDP kann sich nicht als Nationalpartei bezeichnen, wenn ihre Führer kein Französisch sprechen | Das Walross
The NDP Can’t Call Itself a National Party If Its Leaders Can’t Speak French
Die NDP kann sich nicht als Nationalpartei bezeichnen, wenn ihre Führer kein Französisch sprechen | Das Walross
The NDP Can’t Call Itself a National Party If Its Leaders Can’t Speak French
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Can’t wait to see this down voted here while it’s literally been a talking point against many conservative candidates in the past lol.
Personally I don’t particularly care if a leader speaks French or not, but people do care, especially in Quebec. By choosing a leader that doesn’t speak French, you are completely admitting that you’ll never win a federal election and are not even aspiring to do so, which is pretty bad optics
It’s a fair point, but also sort of feels like beating a dead horse when looking at the party’s history with a wider lens. The Layton-Mulcair stretch of NDP leaders fluent in French was the aberration rather than the norm, and their bench of available Francophones just isn’t very deep right now
This is why either Avi Lewis or Heather McPherson should be the leader, as they are the only ones who can speak French!
Oh my god, who cares? They have 7 seats and only 1 in Quebec. Their goal in the next election is just to scrap together 5 more seats without dying. Let them worry about being a national party in a future election.
Obviously I can’t speak for nearly a quarter of the population, but the sense I get from most Francophone voters is that they generally care a lot less about a prospective leader’s ability at the time of the leadership race than they do about their willingness to learn the language. So long as whoever wins puts in the effort to learn French, this really isn’t an issue.
Not knowing it and making no effort to will not play over well in Quebec, but knowing it isn’t enough.
Honestly, leftism isn’t *that* popular in Quebec these days. The NDP has an uphill battle here.