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Many studies have highlighted various characteristics of populist discourse. This raises the question of the extent to which populist discourse differs from non-populist discourse. To answer this question, we textometrically subjected the programs of ten populist and ten non-populist political actors, confronting two opponents in the same country. The analysis reveals that populists and non-populists have much in common, constrained as they are to adjust their opinions to the political questions related to a country and to the general requirements of the dynamic between a contender for government and the electorate. The analysis also finds some dissimilarities, such as the fact that populist platforms are proportionally more insistent than non-populists on economic issues and that non-populist platforms are more animated than others by social democratic principles.
Keywords: Populisme, non-populisme, textométrie, lexicométrie, programmes politiques, manifestes politiques, plateformes politiques, analyse comparée, Populism, Non-populism, Textometry, Lexicometry, Political Programs, Political Manifestos, Political Platforms, Comparative Analysis
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The current debate concerning reasonable accomodation notwithstanding and despite the fact that the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms has recently been modified to improve the protection of equality rights between men and women, it must be noted that certain provisions of the Charter adopted over thirty years ago are still being transgressed and their scope remains imprecisely defined. The present article examines protections set out by sections 12 and 15 of the Charter which prohibit discrimination in the provision of goods or services ordinarily offered to the public. The writer analyses certain factors which must be established in order to determine whether discrimination has in fact occurred in providing access to goods or services. In the second part of the paper, the writer examines certain limitations to equality rights with a view to specifying what constitutes reasonable accomodation and what amounts to undue hardship regarding the provision of goods and services to the public. In essence, the writer seeks to demonstrate that the protections afforded by the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms are not precisely the same as those extended by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or by the various human rights statutes of the other provinces. By taking into account these differences, better protection of the right to equality is ensured.
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From the 1840s onwards, folklorists set out to document and disseminate French songs of the former Illinois Country, a former province of New France located in the central Mississippi Valley. This article recounts the career of these scholars and aims to highlight their impact on local practices and the representations they project onto the “Francos” of the Illinois Country. Several profiles and approaches emerge : from local Franco-American bourgeois scholars seeking, in a memorialist vein, to highlight the historical legitimacy of their ancestors, to regionalist Anglo-American folklorists striving to construct a cultural identity specific to the Midwest, as well as the emergence of a Franco-Ontarian folklorist's concern to situate the Illinois “Francos” within the more global framework of French America.