Talk:Federalism in Quebec

Trudeauism

Is this really the best or most common or most neutral term for this class of federalists?

Google searches:

• trudeauism: 54 hits
• trudeauisme (restricted to French pages): 37 hits
• trudeauist: 27 hits
• trudeauiste (restricted to French pages): 186 hits

Quickly scanning through the hits, it seems these terms are used quite differently in English and in French. In English, they are terms of abuse hurled by right-wingers against left-wingers, and they are used when discussing economics, not national unity. In French, they are terms of abuse hurled by sovereigntists against federalists, with little regard to where their opponents sit on the federalist continuum.

It is also interesting (but admittedly not really relevant) that Trudeau himself was not a trudeauist according to the definition given here.

A would suggest that something like "status-quo federalist" would be a better, more neutral term to use in this article, perhaps mentioning that trudeauist is a non-neutral term used by some sovereigntists.--Indefatigable 15:02, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This will have to change. To what we don't know, but it is impossible to have a movement for something that already exits. JillandJack 19:18, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Second, if the term Trudeauism has ever been used by any reputable media outlet, it would only refer to a "saying" etc. No such reference to describe an ideology exits. With 54 hits on Google, it is irrelevant to the world. JillandJack 19:24, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)