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Among the notable moves in 2025 was Quebec Premier François Legault’s plethora of legislation targeting minorities, including a ‘constitution' to act as a bulwark against multiculturalism and bilingualism, writes Andrew Caddell.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 17, 2025

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The snow is piling up around the village, and the Christmas lights are everywhere. It appears we will have an old-style holiday as the year ends. I look out my window onto the frozen St. Lawrence River and think of how four seasons and 12 months passed in ...

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