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There is treachery in the North. In its provincial elections on September 12, the Canadian province of Quebec overwhelmingly elected a separatist government which threatens to turn the province into a new North American republic, leader of the winning (PO) and Quebec's next premier, plans to engineer Quebec's separating from Canada whether the people like...
...seven-week champion PQ against the ruling Liberal Party in a familiar situation the PQ campaigned strongly as the voice of change in government, condemning the liberals inability to manage the economy and blaming the Liberals endlessly for Quebec's slow recovery from the recession. They won on the slogan "une nouvelle facon de gouverner" (a new way of governing), but what Quebeceta were not told about was the insidious double entendre of this slogan: although Parizeau campaigned on a promise to change the way the provincial government manages its economy, his real agenda to the public separation...
Although 45 percent of Quebecers voted for the PQ (enough to give it a majority government, only 30 percent want a soverign Quebec, and 55 percent do not think that the PQ should take any sovereignty in government...
...people of Quebec ballots for a new provincial government, not for a dismembered in eight to 10 months, which Quebecers will be following question: Do you wish the government of Quebec to begin the process of separation from But this referendum will come only after lengths from the PQ and only after the PQ has already begins the process of separation...
...party pledged to separatism won a majority of the seats in Quebec's provincial election last night, for the first time in nearly a decade. The Parti Quebecois, led by Jacques Parizeau, won 45 percent of the popular vote and captured 77 of the 125 seats in the Quebec legislature. But the size of the win was a major disappointment for the PQ loyalists; opinion polls taken before the election had indicated the reigning Liberal Party would be trounced by a much larger margin. The lukewarn endorsement of Parizeau's party indicates that Quebec residents are not ready to jump...