Tuesday, September 4, 2012

A Quickie: That Other Election

By Baxter

Eh bien, it looks like the Parti Quebecois is winning the provincial election in Quebec — but from our first read, we cats have to say that we're surprised at the Liberals' strength.

After nine years in power, the Liberals were sure to suffer from voter fatigue. But we suspect there has been a good deal of strategic voting in La Belle Province today. Which means we could be looking at a minority provincial government in Quebec City.

The questions remain: After 17 years of quiet, will Pauline Marois take Quebec once again to a referendum on separation? And, whether yes or no, how much of a problem will she pose to Stephen Harper? We cats suspect, quite a bit.

UPDATE: Yep, a PQ minority government. We cats continue to be impressed that the Liberals weren't completely run out of town on a rail. More on les developpements later.

UPDATE, September 5: Well, this isn't quite the developpement we cats were expecting. We've had to replace our post's original image with this photo by Pierre Obendrauf of The Montreal Gazette, of security agents hustling PQ leader Pauline Marois off the stage after a shooting incident at her victory party. Last week, we spoke with a few locals (in a totally unscientific survey, mind you), who indicated that Quebeckers were cranky about the election and annoyed with one another. We guess we just didn't know how annoyed.

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