Candidates Valérie Plante, Denis Coderre and Balarama Holness had a chance to explain themselves directly to English-speaking Montrealers. Author of the article: Allison Hanes • Montreal Gazette Publishing date: Oct 29, 2021 • 6 hours ago • 4 minute read • 9 Comments Ensemble Montreal Leader Denis Coderre and Movement Montreal Leader Balarama Holness seemed strangely chummy, at times teaming up to put Projet Montréal Leader Valérie Plante on the defensive during Thursday evening’s English debate, Allison Hanes writes. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette Montreal’s English-language mayoral debate is usually little more than an occasion for the candidates to repeat all their campaign pledges in English for an English-speaking audience. Advertisement This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Typically, the topics broached are similar to those in the French debate with perhaps a nod to the need for more English services here and a recognition of the contributions of Montreal’s anglophone population there. Rarely — at least in recent memory — has language itself been a fault line in Montreal municipal politics. But because of the tabling of Bill 96, Quebec’s proposed new law to strengthen French, language was very much the elephant in the room…
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Allison Hanes: Language a fault line in Montreal's mayoral debate
