Élection Québec 2012 - récit canadian

Party led by dissident says it’s rational option

Jean-Martin Aussant uses social media, humour to try to get sovereignist vote

BY KEVIN DOUGHERTY QUEBEC — Jean-Martin Aussant, leader and only elected member of Option nationale, says Quebec need...

PQ extending lead over Charest’s Quebec Liberals: poll


Megan O'Toole - Jean Charest’s party has lost ground to the Parti Québécois as federalist voters abandon the governing Libera...

Pauline Marois’s politics of fear


L. Ian MacDonald MONTREAL - It’s morbidly fascinating that Pauline Marois has chosen to take a hard line on lang...

Vieille rengaine... Toujours la même insolence! Toujours les mêmes illusions!

Can Quebec really separate?

the clarity act makes it very difficult for any province to leave Confederation, ensuring a constitutional checkmate

But is it really possible today for Quebec, acting on its own, to separate from the rest of Canada? Clearly, the best insurance policy that Ottawa has against Quebec separatism is the 2000 federal Clarity Act. (...) By securing a veritable constitutional checkmate, the law has effectively boxed the separatists in and placed the referendum issue in a semi-permanent deep freeze.

Quebec’s Sir Lancelot


MONTREAL — It befits Jacques Duchesneau, star candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec in the Sept. 4 Quebec election, to have a personal coat of arms a...

The PQ’s addiction to identity politics keeps it a small tent


On Wednesday, Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois made a pitch to fe...

Marois’s language-law proposals are out of touch


Pauline Marois didn’t have much new to add to Parti Québécois policy on language when she promised her “new Bill 101” on Wednesday during a campaign stop in the Gaspé region. Even so, the fact that her promises didn’t resonate very strongly in the francophone media was striking, given how emotional issues of language and identity normally are. In fact, Marois was happy to move on quickly and feed the news cy...

Duchesneau: ‘Dirty money’ allegations will be proven in Quebec inquiry


Anti-corruption crusader Jacques Duchesneau says Lib...

Momentum is on Charest’s side


BY L. IAN MACDONALD MONTREAL — It’s early days in the Quebec election campaign, but there’s no dou...

Star candidates bolster CAQ, but questions remain


With the announcement Sunday that anti-corruption vedette Jacques Duchesneau will be its candidate in St. Jérôme riding, François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec has moved one step closer toward assembling a strong core group of candidates for key cabinet positions. Overall, a credible team is taking shape. Christian Dubé, the Italy-based director of European operations for the Quebec paper giant Cascades,...

Odds stacked against Charest this time


Will the Jean Charest magic work again in 2012? One of the recurring themes i...

Le refus obstiné de s'intégrer au NOUS QUÉBÉCOIS cache des motifs inavouables... Le buckage de la minorité anglo va-t-il se poursuivre ad vitam aeternam, même dans un Québec indépendant?

It’s ‘nous’ vs. minorities for the PQ


Pauline Marois says the PQ lost ground in the 2007 election because her predecessor wouldn’t discuss “identity” issues. In a recent video message, she says: “Let’s not give in to those who want to impose values on us that aren’t our own.”

PQ victory in Quebec could be bad for business


Nicolas Van Praet - MONTREAL — Quebec Premier Jean Charest’s government has crashed the gates of private business, insisting it would do everything in its power to block U.S. home-improvement retailer Lowe’s Cos. from buying local champion Rona Inc. The meddling this week stunned some Bay Street investors, who called it an overreaction of epic proportions. As Norman Levine at Toronto-based Portfolio...

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A separate Quebec wouldn't win many Olympic medals

Quebec separatists never let a golden opportunity - or even a bronze one - go to waste.

Marois needs to under-stand that without the rest of Canada, Quebec's culture of entitlement and welfare state would collapse eventually for lack of money.

Quebec separatism is easy, tedious and done to death


Less than 24 hours into Quebec’s 40th general election campaign, the ballot question is already bo...

Students are right to engage in the political process


In the last provincial election, in 2008, the turnout among voters ages 18 to 24 hit an all-time low of 41.2 per cent. The office of Quebec’s Directeur général des élections called it a catastrophe, and properly so. The apparent lack of engagement of young Quebecers was rightly a cause for concern. But that was before the large-scale “strike” by thousands of students in the province against the Charest gove...

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