Quebec byelection leaves Anglo voters with little choice

Language is on the minds of many voters, and many anglophones may spoil their ballots to show their dissatisfaction.
Among the candidates in the race for the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce –Westmount, Que., byelection are: New Democrat Jean-François Filion, left, Liberal Anna Gainey, Conservative Mathew Kaminski, the Bloc’s Laurence Massey, and Green Jonathan Pedneault.

MONTREAL—The Quebec neighbourhoods of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal West, and Westmount are my “hood.” I was born in “NDG” and spent the first five years of my life in a post-war veterans apartment complex. My parents then moved to Montreal West for 35 years,...

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