How about a word for Quebecers who utterly destroyed the party, the man and perhaps the myth.
Sovereigntists scoffed when their former leader Lucien Bouchard declared last year there would be no “yes” vote for Quebec separation from Canada in his lifetime. Bouchard immediately was declared irrelevant by PQ and BQ supporters. 40%+ in Quebec could invariably be counted on to declare for the “Quebec nation”. Reaching that one vote beyond the necessary 50% “le prochain fois” and lowering the Canadian flag for the last time was really merely a matter of proper timing and “winning conditions”.
By Roy Green - from the National Post
On Monday Quebecers endorsed Lucien Bouchard’s viewpoint more than the Jack Layton road map. Certainly the NDP’s socialist approach resonates in a province predisposed to left-leaning philosophy, but Quebecers didn’t need to elect Jack Layton and a slate of caucus members he can’t yet identify without name tags for that. Quebecers had their 20-year champions of “l’affairs Quebecois” — the BQ and its taciturn and seemingly undefeatable boss Gilles Duceppe in place and prepared to return to Ottawa. Read more...
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