The political environment in Montreal is highly complex. It's impossible to categorize it as "mostly conservative" or "mostly liberal."
Let's ignore loyalty to political parties for a second, and focus solely on social values. I would say that the majority of Montrealers are liberals in this regard. Most believe strongly in supporting poverty reduction, publicly-funded health and education, gender and trans-gender equality, reproductive rights, etc. Very liberal.
On the other hand, these social values tend to be thrown to the wayside when Montrealers actually go to the polls to vote on elected representatives. Look at the last provincial election: The vote was split almost three ways between the ADQ (right of centre), the Liberals (which, unlike the federal liberals, are slightly right of centre) and the PQ (left). Separatism is such a polarising issue in Quebec that people tend to ignore their personal values and simply vote "strategically" regarding that one issue. For example, a lot of people who are non-separatist but are liberal actually voted counter-intuitively for the ADQ, simply because they were angry at the previous Charest government. Weird.
Anyways to sum it up, Montrealers are more Liberal than Conservative, but this doesn't necessarily show through in their voting.
2007-04-27 17:32:09
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answered by Mel 3
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Very liberal, people are open minded, there are a hell of strip clubs and sex shops and lots of porn movies are done here, there is also a casino
This is some sort of Las Vegas from the Artic
2007-04-28 13:03:48
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answered by Masiosare 3
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it has the largest gay population in the world. That should answer it!
2007-04-30 09:05:04
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answered by BAR 4
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Long answer, what Mel said.
Short answer, no.
2007-05-01 05:00:55
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answered by Goddess of Grammar 7
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