Translating the printemps érable

Translating the printemps érable is a volunteer collective attempting to balance the English media's extremely poor coverage of the student conflict in Québec by translating media that has been published in French into English. These are amateur translations; we have done our best to translate these pieces fairly and coherently, but the final texts may still leave something to be desired. If you find any important errors in any of these texts, we would be very grateful if you would share them with us at translatingtheprintempsderable@gmail.com. Please read and distribute these texts in the spirit in which they were intended; that of solidarity and the sharing of information.

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Montreal Media Coop

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Ottawa flies to the defense of the Charest government (La Presse)

Joël-Denis Bellavance June 20, 2012

Original French text: http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-quebecoise/201206/20/01-4536841-loi-78-ottawa-vole-a-la-defense-du-gouvernement-charest.php

(OTTAWA) Twenty-four hours after adding its voice to that of the Charest government in denouncing United Nations critics with regard to the special law (78), the Harper government took grande measures to defend Quebec’s right to adopt the controversial law.

Industry Minister Christian Paradis made a motion to recognize the National Assembly’s right to adopt this law, adopted at lightning speed in hopes of ending the student conflict.

Mr. Paradis’ original proposal reads: “This House recognizes the right of the Quebec National Assembly, duly elected, to pass laws such as Law 78, within its jurisdiction.”

Conservative strategy was to force the New Democratic Party (NDP) to become muddled in the student conflict. This file is seen as a thorny issue for the party of Thomas Mulcair, as several of its MPs and activists come from the student community and some have publicly expressed their sympathy for the “red squares.”