Fanaticism and the PQ cause

PKP was getting angry with Premier Philippe Couillard for calling him and his followers simply “radicals.” He should count himself lucky that the premier is using this one word only, and not calling him other names for behaving in a rather uncultured and undignified way during a recent concert. There is another word en anglais better fitting his and the PQ’s ideology: “fanatic.”

According to the English dictionary, “radical” means “a person who advocates thorough or complete political or social reform; a member of a political party or part of a party pursuing such aims; representing or supporting an extreme section of a political party.” The word was used correctly and it fits them perfectly.

On the other hand, “fanatic” means “a person filled with excessive and single- minded zeal, especially for an extreme religious or political cause.” It fits them even better than “radical.”

We call followers of a certain religion fanatics, rightly so, because they are pushing for global acceptance of their ideology and beliefs.

Péladeau and his party are fanatics as well, for clinging to a single idea of an independent Quebec and the made- up “protection” of their “endangered” French language. They were told through two referendums and their historic loss in the 2014 election that their idea is not wanted here. Only a “fanatic” like PKP would carry on, spending his time and his money, while using the machinery of a political party to distribute the senseless and long- outdated idea of separation from one of the best and most respected countries in the world: Canada. Peter Sipos, Côte- St- Luc