Right, Left and Centre: Chapter 12 by Dave Jaffe

      
    The Critical Critic - Part Four.


       The critical critic couldn't support Israel anymore. So in the end he settled on supporting the French-Canadians. They were people who survived. They didn't use violence, at least not in 2010. By 2010, the Quebec sovereigntist movement was shrinking. After its near victory in the 1995 referendum the Quebec sovereigntist movement splintered into three groups. There was the separatist Parti Quebecois, the soft nationalists of the Coalition for the Future of Quebec and the very left wing Operation Solidaire.
    "The Quebec separatist movement is history," one former Quebec resident said. True or not, sthe critic admired the Quebec nationalists. He wondered why the film 'Barney's Version', which was based on Mordecai Richler's novel of the same name, never showed people speaking in French.  He also wondered why so many people in Quebec, including Mordecai Richler had never learned French. He noticed how many English Canadians didn't like Quebec at all.
       The critical critic was now a supporter of  French Canadian nationalism. He was happy. He'd found a new cause to believe in. It was called 'Quebec'. And he had a new target to criticize. It was called 'English Canada'. At the age of 67 the crtical crtic was once again a happy man.