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Montreal Gazette — January 2, 2025

Opinion: 2025 will be a tumultuous year for English-speaking Quebecers, but the QCGN is ready

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By QCGN president, Eva Ludvig

“We wanted to have fireworks tonight,” Paul Simon said during Simon and Garfunkel’s 1981 concert in Central Park, “but they wouldn’t let us have that.” When the crowd started to boo, he quickly jumped in: “We’ll make our own fireworks.”

As the Quebec Community Groups Network turns 30 in 2025, there will certainly be fireworks — but not only of our own making. It is hardly a risk to wager that, apart from the celebrations we set off ourselves, 2025 will be a year of explosive tumult, and we would be wise to expect plenty of loud noise, meteoric rises and fizzling falls. It does not take the hindsight granted by three decades in advocacy to foresee this.

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