Martin Patriquin: Montreal and London share a predicament

Separated by some 5,000 kilometres, London, England and Montreal, Quebec are also distant in their mindsets. One is home to a Protestant work ethic and binge drinking. The other has joie de vivre and the cinq à sept. One is a continent’s economic powerhouse; the other, lashed by the winds of history, has reinvented itself as a cheap bacchanalian paradise by the St. Lawrence.
Yet because of last week’s Quebec election, the two cities suddenly find themselves in remarkably simil