[GiveEmDubya]

Hey, long time no ping! Thought this might be of interest to your Canada ping list.

Should be very interesting returns tomorrow night.

[fanfan]

Thanks for the post Dubya.

Canada ping.

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[GMMAC]

IF Quebec ends up with a (likely Liberal) minority government tonight, it will be because efforts to both crush separatism & move the province rightward have worked - at least in the short run - a little too well with all of the Quebec City area seats now held by the federal Conservatives plus a few more falling to the arguably more right-of-center Action Démocratique.

It should also be remembered that current Quebec Liberal Premier Jean Charest & Action Démocratique's Mario Dumont are both classic red-Tories (e.g. RINO's) in the mold of their common mentor Brian Mulrony and would, thus & other than for reasons of personal ego, make for likely coalition partners with André Boisclair & the PQ virtually unable to work productively in tandem with either.

While I wouldn't want to bet the proverbial farm on tonight's outcome, to me, Quebec's historic love of majority governments & well known 'tribal' voting for perceived 'winners' dictates a very narrow Charest majority.
While it's increasing trend away from separatism & still, beneath the surface, 'Catholic' social conservatism leads me to guess voters in the secrecy of balloting enclosures are going to much more convincingly reject openly gay, one-time coke head André Boisclair & his Party than they've previously publicly indicated to pollsters.

Still, for authentic conservatives, the longer Maurice Duplessis is dead, the better he looks, eh?