Liberals prevail in Quebec election
Here’s the latest from the CBC:
– Liberal Party (48 seats; 33.08% of the vote)
РAction D̩mocratique du Qu̩bec (41 seats; 30.80% of the vote)
РParti Qu̩b̩cois (36 seats; 28.32% of the vote)
Premier Jean Charest’s centrist and federalist Liberals thus win a second mandate, although they will govern in the minority in a closely divided National Assembly (the province’s first minority government in almost 130 years). The ADQ, a conservative populist party, will be the official opposition under Mario Dumont. The separatist PQ, which had promised a referendum on sovereignty if elected, ends up third.
It looked as if Charest was going to lose his Sherbrooke seat, but he has prevailed.
The Liberals may have benefitted from the recent federal budget, the ADQ from the general unpopularity of the heretofore two leading parties and their respective leaders, Charest and André Boisclair, as well as from its platform of fiscal conservatism and cultural nationalism (nationalism without sovereignty, for now).
The Liberals were behind in the polls just a week ago, although they had generally been ahead since January.
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5 Responses to “Liberals prevail in Quebec election”
Don’t those surrender monkeys in Quebec speak French? I bet the province is a haven for the Taliban.
It was asked and speculated:
> Don’t those surrender monkeys in Quebec speak French?
Yes, even if the real surrender monkeys look down on the dialect.
> I bet the province is a haven for the Taliban.
Al-Qaeda, maybe, as in Europe. That’s not Quebec’s intention any more than it is Europe’s, though. In fact, Quebec is a great place to visit (vive les femmes quebecoises!), but it is the most anti-war and anti-Bush province, I believe.
Well I will never go back to Quebec .. IT”S not a great place to visit..
My wife tried her little French and you stuck it in her face…
it is the most ingornant place I have ever travelled.. quebec city ..
Montreal… I missed the English places I guess.. YOU want everything
and don’t want to work for it.. Stand up for you French until you starve to
death.. YOU aren’t special .. screw you
DLS It was a spoof. I have been to Quebec. Montreal was great. Q City is a little militant with the French speaking. Ontario does the bilingual olive leaf thing, but some of the Frechies in Quebec can be tetsty.
the attitude of francophones in quebec depends on where exactly you are.
smaller towns may speak less english, but tend to be more patient and willing to accept that you dont speak perfect french.
dont judge a beautiful province like Québec on a few places you may have been.
if you reverse it and a francophone were to visit toronto, you would find very little patience from many local people trying to understand them.