For years, Quebec’s English-speaking community has seen its institutions being chipped away at. We lose a little here, a little there. We have lost hospitals, our public school system is just hanging on and it’s often hard to see our reflection in official visage of Quebec.

So when we see another institution, the Constance Lethbridge Rehab Centre possibly being swallowed up, it’s time to stand up and say NO.

It’s an important component of our community. It's the last remaining centre of its kind with a bilingual mandate.

It is heartening to see Health Minister Gaetan Barrette standing up for anglos

“In no way will I accept any merger, restructuring that will affect access of anglos to care in their own language,” said Barrette.

The Constance Lethbridge board presented this cockamamie idea of merging the centre with three francophone institutions, something about economies of scale. But it would lose its bilingual status.

Right now the centre has legal protection under Bill 101 and that’s not something you give away. Our community would be weakened . . We have to hang on with everything we have. Bravo to the minister for actually acknowledging that the English-speaking community is important. Haven’t heard that in a while.

It’s so good to hear that as Premier of Quebec, Bernard Drainville would not hold a referendum in his first mandate. We can all breathe a little easier.

Drainville, who got his come-uppance over his nasty Charter of Values in the last election, wants to be PQ leader. Drainville has it all planned out: Independence 2025 with a referendum in 2023.

I guess he hasn’t got the message. Quebecers aren’t really that interested anymore.

So Drainville has been doing some travelling, visiting bonnie Scotland for two weeks this summer to get inspiration from the Highlands because the Scots will hold their own referendum later this month.

Drainville seems to have become our own Braveheart wanting to release Quebecers from the shackles of the Canadian gulag

What he and the others don’t understand is that no matter how they package it , no matter what they call it, no matter who they blame for their failures, it’s a non-starter.

That was the message from voters on April 7th. But some people just don’t get it. And that is a clear message that cant be found in Scotland, but right here at home

You have to hand it to Mayor Coderre. He isn’t letting the unions roll over him, or Montrealers.

The hooligans who stormed City Hall last month are facing criminal charges and we learned this week that includes the presidents of the firefighters and blue collar unions and the Mayor says that more charges may be coming.

We also need action against Montreal police who stood by and did nothing. The damage they have done to their cause is immeasurable. There used to be a time when the big unions ran this province and city.

Remember the Common Front? Those days are long gone. Actions have consequences and our elected leaders at all levels must never give into bullies. Coderre, thankfully, seems to get it.