Martin Patriquin: Why Québec solidaire should back off the S-word

Here in Quebec, we were witness this week to a truly Canadian spectacle for the first time: the sight of our political leaders hacking their way through a debate in their second language with varying degrees of success.
As with federal party leaders, who suffer through the same indignity in French every election cycle, the same rules apply. One must speak well enough to be understood, but bad enough to evoke pity.
By this quaint measure, the clear winner of Quebec’s first televised English