Dan Delmar: The Parti Québécois’ shadow media empire | National Post

The points on Quebecor’s role in identity politics are interesting:

“Some people sell cheap perfume,” the National Post’s Andrew Coyne wrote this week. “Mr. Péladeau is in the cheap-emotion end of things, peddling different brands of phony outrage to different audiences.”

Since the first Quebec “reasonable accommodation” crisis of 2007, Péladeau’s newspapers have featured prominent reports and columns about ethnic integration in Quebec society — or, more accurately, an alleged lack thereof.

When’s Drainville’s Nebraska precedent turned out to be based on an artifact from the segregation era, the issue was ignored by Quebecor

That crisis, highlighted by the town of Hérouxville’s anti-Muslim “cod of behaviour,” boosted then Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ) leader Mario Dumont to the position of leader of the official opposition (his party later folded, and many members joined the Coalition Avenir Québec). Dumont is now a host on Péladeau’s news network, LCN.

Hérouxville, and the Bouchard-Taylor Commission called in response to the issue (whose findings were ignored by the PQ), is seen as a precursor to Drainville’s Charter of Values.

Dan Delmar: The Parti Québécois’ shadow media empire | National Post.