New anti-woke Parti Québécois government to curb mass immigration

Yesterday, in "It doesn't matter where you live. The threat is real", we mentioned briefly the victory of the nationalist (thus anti-immigration) Parti Québécois in Monday's election in la Bette Province. We present now an abbreviated version of the report by Tristin Hopper in Canada's National Post.

Following Monday's election results in Québec, the province may be in for one of the more "anti-woke" programmes in the country, particularly on the issue of immigration. 

The "sovereignist" (read: nationalist) Parti Québécois will form a minority government, with the revitalized Québec Conservatives holding the balance of power. 

The province’s premier designate, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, has denounced the open borders policies of Canada's Liberal government, declared multiculturalism a failure and  even led campaigns against "wokeisme" in politics.

One of the more immediate policy implications of the new government is likely to be tighter restrictions on immigration, and an explicit push toward increasing the fertility rate as an alternative to accepting immigrants. 

Among the seven priorities which the PQ pledged to pursue were pledges to cut red tape, reduce gasoline taxes and "retake control of our immigration system." For months, M Plamondon has explicitly cited high immigration as a driver of housing unaffordability, health care backlogs and criminal behaviour among Québec youth.

Rising crime rates in Québec are "linked to demographic changes, we can’t ignore that," he told le Journal de Québec last year.

Specifically, the Parti Québécois has pledged to limit permanent immigration to 35,000 per year. For context, the last year Quebec accepted fewer than 35,000 permanent immigrants per year was in 2000, when they brought in 32,502. Last year, 60,132 permanent immigrants settled in the province, with 59,440 arriving the year before.

The party's official immigration platform calls the issue an "urgent situation" that has been imposed on Québécois "without our consent", and includes a clause about using "automation" and "robotics" to reduce dependence on foreign workers. 

When Prime Minister Mark Carney hinted in a New York Times interview last month that his government was planning a "controlled increase" to immigration, M Plamondon responded with a statement accusing Ottawa of attempting to subvert "Québec democracy." "A PQ government would oppose from day one any immigration increase imposed by the federal government," he said. 

Québec, just like the rest of Canada, was hit by an unprecedented surge in "temporary migration" approved by Justin Trudeau's Liberal government in the immediate aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. As recently as 2015, the number of non-permanent residents entering the province was about 3600 per year. In 2023, the peak of the post-COVID migration surge, that number swelled to 125,092! 

Québec has also been particularly hard hit by a wave of asylum-seekers who began entering Canada at elevated rates beginning in 2017. Until it was closed in 2023, the Roxham Road illegal border crossing into southern Québec was the primary conduit for such migrants.

According to then-Premier François Legault, in 2023 alone, an estimated 60,000 asylum-seekers registered in Québec, resulting in overflowing homeless shelters. An estimated 190,000 asylum-seekers are still in Quebec, representing more than a third of the Canadian total of 500,000. Conservative Party Leader Éric Duhaime made the issue a recurring theme of his campaign, stating that at least one third of asylum seekers had come to "profit off our social benefits", which he pledged to reduce.

He also proposed sweeping incentives to drive up the Québec birthrate, which, even if it's above the Canadian average, is at a historic low of 1.36 children per woman. The Parti Quebecois similarly rolled out a campaign promise to "slow the falling birth rate." In a statement, M Plamondon said, "Every Québécer who wants children should be able to start a family."

For both the PQ and the Conservatives, the real issue isn't the raw numbers of immigration, but the risk of cultural dilution. In an April press conference, the PQ leader accused the federal government of succumbing to the Trudeau-Carney "doctrine of postnationalism" that caused it to embrace "open borders."

Last week, as the PQ cruised toward victory, the Québec conservative columnist Mathieu Bock-Côté said that it augured a Québec "really turning the page on multiculturalism and unchecked immigration." Representatives of most mainstream Québec political parties are on record as saying that multiculturalism is a failure. The province's most recent immigration minister, Jean-François Roberge said last year, "We think ghettoization does not serve social cohesion."

Québec was also largely immune to an early 2020s phenomenon of Canadian institutions issuing reports and statements declaring themselves guilty of "systemic racism", mandating land acknowledgements and implementing identity-based quotas in official hiring. In 2024, Québec's National Assembly unanimously passed a motion endorsing merit-based hiring over DEI-style hiring based on identity quotas.

Walt sez: Québécois aren't racists. They're realists! When is the rest of North America going to wake up?!

It doesn't matter where you live. The threat is real...

If you watched "Will mass migration be the death of the West?" and thought, "It's not my problem. Maybe it's too late for Britain and France, but there aren't many Islamists in my community. Why should I worry?", Walt says: Look around you! They may not be there in numbers yet, but they're coming, and almost none of our political and religious leaders is trying to stop them.

There's one way that you can do your part to stem the flood. Elections are coming soon not just in the US of A but in other countries, states and municipalities. Use the power of the ballot! Throw your support behind politicians you can trust [??? Ed.] to work for totally closed borders and the remigration of the criminals and terrorists who are already amongst us.

You think it can't be done? Just two days ago, the pure laine Canadiens of the province of Québec turfed out the centre-left CAQ, which had held power for eight years, and elected what promises to be the most anti-woke government in Canada!

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, now the Premier designate, has denounced the open borders policies of the federal Liberals, declared multiculturalism a failure, denounced wokeism and promised Canada's strictest controls on immigration. 

See? If enough people get over their fear of being vilified as "racist", "Nazi scum" etc to vote according to what they know in their hearts is right, we can win!

VIDEO: "Will mass migration be the death of the West?"

In this Heritage Foundation full-length documentary, Nick Freitas says it doesn't have to be, but we -- patriots who believe in preserving Western culture and upholding Western Christian values -- have to act now. He explains what is happening, who is behind it, and, most importantly, what can be done.

We cannot continue to sit still and let our political (and religious!) leaders lead us down the path to the extinction of our civilization! Do whatever you can to stop the surrender! Do it now!

Babylon Bee updates the failed lethal injection story

Here's the link. You're welcome.

Walt explains why brake and accelerator pedals have become so big

A long time ago, near a teak forest in southwest China, lived an old man named Chan. He made his living by carving toys, statuettes and other tchotches out of the abundant teak wood. One day Chan awoke to discover that some of his carvings, which he left on display in front of his hut, were missing. He put out some new ones only to have them disappear as well. The only clue as to what happened was a track of small footprints, about the size a boy might make. 

So Chan decided to sit up all night, to find out who was stealing his objets d'art. In the wee hours, by the light of the moon, he could see a bear -- a bear with very small feet (for a bear) -- making off with his goods. So he ran out of his house shouting, "Hey! Where you go, boyfoot bear with teaks of Chan?!"

I was thinking about that last week when I was driving a rented 2026 VW Jetta Sport. I am a boyfoot bore, and found that the pedals on the Jetta (pictured below) were much larger than necessary to accommodate my small (size 7) feet, noticeably smaller than those on my 10-year-old Korean car. 

I asked myself, "Self, how come is it that brake and accelerator pedals suddenly got back to 1960s size?" Then I remembered something I read in P.J. O'Rourke's Parliament of Whores. Here's a slightly edited version of what Mr O'Rourke -- a great car enthusiast and writer -- said.

For 20 years the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been getting complaints about "unintended acceleration" or "runaway car syndrome". People claim that their automobiles take off at high speed for no reason. 

Usually this happens when the gearshift selector is being moved from P to D or R. The drivers swear that they didn't have their feet on the gas and often swear that they were pressing on the brake as hard as they could. 

These alarming episodes of mechanical self-will are officially known as sudden-acceleration incidents. By 1987, 6000 SAIs had been reported, supposedly causing 3000 accidents, 2000 injuries and 56 deaths. 

There was a great outcry in consumerism circles. Demands were made for the government to put a stop, as it were, to this. In the twinkling of an eye (by the standards of bureaucratic time, which is slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris) the thing was done. 

On 7 March 1989, the DOT-NHTSA produced an 81-page report written by an eight-man group of engineering savants with more than 50 years of college among them. This document presented evidence from exhaustive experiment and analysis that proved what everybody who understands how to open the hood of a car had known all along about SAIs: "Pedal misapplications are the likely cause of these incidents." 

Yes, the truth was out at last! The dumb buggers stepped on the gas instead of the brake. The report shed some dim light on how this could happen, especially cases involving the Audi 5000, which was the favourite target of the Liability Lawyer Bottom-Feeder Association. 

Audi had the bad luck to be designed with its brake and accelerator pedals close together (where, for the sake of quick stopping, they belong) instead of in separate counties, as they are in typical American luxury cars. Thus Audi got a large number of plush-bottom yoohoos suffering from daytime-television brain buying the 5000. These people had never driven a European car before and were too busy attaching Garfield suction-cup toys to the rear window to watch what their feet were doing. 

Santa Barrazza! Mr O'Rourke put his finger [his toe, surely. Ed.] on the underlying problem -- the large and growing difference in size between Europeans and North Americans. Cars like the Buick, in which the brake pedal is separated by at least a foot from the accelerator, are designed for people with big, fat feet. 

My 1963 Plymouth Savoy (the best car I ever had) had a brake pedal which was, I swear, a foot wide. This was a problem because, in the absence of a clutch, there was a great temptation to rest one's left foot on the brake, giving rise to a conflict between accelerator and brake which, fortunately, the brake usually won. 

There is an obvious fix for the big-feet-small-pedals problem, and I was surprised, while driving the VW, to discover that European car makers (or Volkswagen at least) have figured it out at last. North Americans are not going to get smaller, so the solution is to make the pedals bigger and separated by more space, as in the picture. 

And what's that huge pedal on the left? Is it a clutch? Nooooo. The Jetta is an eight-speed automatic (note: not a CVT). What looks like a pedal is a really a "dead pedal" a plate fixed to the floor to give you a place to rest your big fat foot! Problem solved!

Further reading: "Lard butts more likely to die in car crashes than non-Americans", WWW 30/10/14.

Indeed, this is something you don't see every day

Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] wish to thank the Patriot Post for a never-ending supply of excellent memes. If you have been on some other planet for the last week, read "Wannabe flydubai hijacker planned to crash plane into Israeli tower in 9/11-like attack", New York Post 5/10/26.

Spot the difference!

Seen on Blazing Cat Fur.