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Quebec Politics - grumble, grumble

By apalazzo on March 25, 2007.

Quebec's provincial elections are being held tomorrow. I won't be voting in this one - my green card application is still under review, and I can't cross the border until all my paperwork is settled. Since the thee main parties are tied in the pre-election poles, it's likely that like the Quebec will have a minority Government, the first in over 100 years. As two of those parties are separatist parties, it's likely that poor Quebec will be dragged through another referendum within the next 5 years. That's the last thing that Quebec needs ...

Here's some info from the CBC.

Update:

G&M article. The Liberals won by a slim count - they will form a minority government with 48 seats in the new parliament. The Action Democratique, a soft independent right of center party went up from 5 seats to 41 seats, and the hardcore separatist and left of center Parti Quebecois dropped to 35 seats. In other words although people were upset by the Liberals, they were not ready to vote for the hardcore separatists. Result: no referendum on separation for the next 4-5 years.

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The Action Democratique party is not "Separatist", not by a long shot.
And they are *against* any new referendum.
They are a right-wing party with a strong populist component.

In '94 they were "against" the referendum until it was called and then campaigned for the separatist side (or whatever that question was).

I have no doubt that if the PQ wins we will have another referendum and if the AD wins they may as well bargain with the PQ and what will be the top of the PQ's agenda?

You mean the top PQ priority isn't science and tech funding?

I'm not aware of the AD party history, but everyone I know seems to think they are separatist even though they don't come right out and say it.

GO LIBERALS!!

By Theodore Price (not verified) on 26 Mar 2007 #permalink

Theodore, the ADQ has very little party history; they are the party of a single man, Mario Dumont, a disgruntled young Liberal.

Also, the PQ was weakened by the disaffection of its own base, who thought -- rightly so -- that they've gone soft and mushy on Indépendance. The PQ new chief failed to inspire middle-of-the-road Quebeckers, who flocked under ADQ banner instead.

The Liberals have a serious problem, because most of their seats are in anglophones/allophones counties. That makes them less representative of the francophone majority.