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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CUTV - broadcasting live from the protests nightly

OpenFile Montreal

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Montreal Media Coop

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Vincent Marissal    June 18, 2012

Original French Text: http://blogues.lapresse.ca/marissal/2012/06/18/parlons-%C2%ABresponsabilite%C2%BB-avec-jean-charest/

I don’t know what message exactly the liberal strategists are seeking to send [with the ad that was released today, which is viewable here], but if they want to tell us that the last session was hard and that their leader is tired, but convinced that he’s right, they succeeded.

Shoulders slumped, tongue-tied, pale, looking weakened, the tone is falsely relaxed which goes with the funeral home feel…

When, in the midst of the message, speaking on responsibility, we talk.

“I made the responsible choice and I know that it’s the right one” said the provincial leader.

What responsibility?

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