I like the expression "partisan craziness".
On this matter, the Higgs government will do what it has to do in order to govern. The issue is absolutely and intrinsically clear to us at the SANB: we won't accept any setback for language rights. As for the People's Alliance—I don't like the French translation, "Alliance des gens", because it was done by Google—that party was established to put an end to duality in New Brunswick because it would cost too much, create a separation between anglophones and francophones and all that facile populist rhetoric.
The New Brunswick economy isn't doing well, and, as you can see from the way so-called modern societies are evolving, there's a tendency to attack the most vulnerable people once things take a turn for the worse. The linguistic minorities in New Brunswick are part of those vulnerable communities that people feel free to attack. People then say the economy is doing poorly because we pay twice for ambulances, we have two kinds of schools, and we pay twice as much for school buses and hospitals.
First, all the statistics and economic studies clearly show that New Brunswick's duality doesn't necessarily cost more. Second, New Brunswick's duality and bilingual capacity generate economic activity representing at least $8 billion a year.
It's easy to make up any story in response to anybody at any time. However, when you start to sift through the facts, the responses don't come so quickly.