20.9.10

I just noticed this

I live on the border of the city of Montreal and the rich, white, very anglophone enclave of Westmount, a city within a city that defected from Montreal after refusing to pay poor people's taxes for things like public transit. Today I noticed that the main artery Boulevard René Levesque (named after the founder of the Parti Québecois, a Canadian political party whose main platform is to defect from Canada), becomes Boulevard Dorchester (possibly the most Anglo-Saxon name I can think of short of Nottinghamshire) upon entering Westmount. Apparently white anglos can't stomach him. I don't know nearly enough about the controversial figure of Monsieur Levesque or his politics to pass judgement, but I do know the following fun fact: He once ran over a guy lying in the street and the policeman fined him $25 for not wearing his glasses.