{"id":4202,"date":"2012-10-25T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:37:10","slug":"the-name-game-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4202","title":{"rendered":"The Name Game – Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t believe every piece of quantitative evidence ever produced! Quebecers HATE this man!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve read a dozen opinion pieces by Quebec columnists over the past few months like this one from Lysianne Gagnon<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Is Justin Trudeau really the Liberals\u2019 best option?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Toronto Liberal intelligentsia believe that Justin Trudeau, being a Trudeau and a Quebecker, can revive their party\u2019s fortunes in Quebec, they are mightily wrong. (One might also wonder if anybody can save the Liberal Party of Canada now that the NDP occupies the centre-left, but this is another question.)<\/p>\n

Justin\u2019s surname is as much a liability in French-speaking Quebec as it is in Alberta. Personally, I find this hostility regrettable and irrational to boot, but the reality is that more than anybody else, Trudeau Senior remains the nemesis not only of the sovereigntists but of all of Quebec\u2019s \u201csoft\u201d nationalists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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As I argued at the time<\/a>, every shred of evidence we have before us suggests the Trudeau name is more of an asset <\/em>than a liability <\/em>– even in Quebec and Alberta. And here’s some more<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sondage: Trudeau doublerait Mulcair au Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Ottawa, Ontario) L’effet Trudeau se fait maintenant sentir au Qu\u00e9bec. Le Parti lib\u00e9ral du Canada (PLC) prendrait la t\u00eate dans les intentions de vote dans la Belle Province s’il \u00e9tait dirig\u00e9 par Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n

Un sondage CROP r\u00e9alis\u00e9 pour le compte de La Presse d\u00e9montre que les \u00e9lecteurs qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, \u00e0 l’instar de bon nombre d’\u00e9lecteurs canadiens, sont loin d’\u00eatre indiff\u00e9rents \u00e0 l’entr\u00e9e en sc\u00e8ne de Justin Trudeau dans la course \u00e0 la direction du PLC.<\/p>\n

Avec le jeune d\u00e9put\u00e9 de Papineau comme chef, les lib\u00e9raux obtiendraient 36% des intentions de vote au Qu\u00e9bec, contre 30% au Nouveau Parti d\u00e9mocratique (NPD), 19% au Bloc qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois et un maigre 11% au Parti conservateur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Now, I don’t think anyone should get caught up in these hypothetical polls, which come down to little more than superficial perceptions. Attitudes will quickly change once Canadians get to know Justin, attack ads air, and voters consider him as a Prime Minister<\/em> rather than a celebrity<\/em>. Right now, the polls don’t mean a lot, except that people like his hair…and his name<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Which, once again, shows how ridiculous it is to argue the Trudeau name is toxic. It’s clearly an asset, even in Quebec – regardless of what the “Quebec intelligentsia” claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve read a dozen opinion pieces by Quebec columnists over the past few months like this one from Lysianne Gagnon: Is Justin Trudeau really the Liberals\u2019 best option? If the Toronto Liberal intelligentsia believe that Justin Trudeau, being a Trudeau and a Quebecker, can revive their party\u2019s fortunes in Quebec, they are mightily wrong. (One […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[983,86],"tags":[1000,1198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4209,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}