Opinion: Remembering Claude Ryan

I read Royal Orr’s Saturday column (“Ryan brought linguistic peace to Quebec“) with nostalgia, broad agreement, but a few reservations. The nostalgia came in recalling our CJAD debate shortly before the 1989 Quebec election. I was one of the four Equality Party candidates who won seats in it. Orr argued, roughly, that Quebec anglos could catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I was more abrasive, arguing that Robert Bourassa’s recent surrender to nationalist fevers had