Quebec Polls Close - Charest Hopes for Rare Third Mandate

" Charest hopes for rare third mandate in Quebec Updated Mon. Dec. 8 2008 8:08 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff The polls have closed and votes are being tallied in the Quebec provincial election, with Liberal Leader Jean Charest hoping for a third mandate to steer the province...

Sea Change in Québec

"La belle province will never be the same again, nor will Canada as a whole. The separatists were trounced in yesterday’s provincial election in Québec. If anyone ever needed clear proof that Quebeckers for the most part are no longer interested in driving a wedge into...

Quebec leaders prepare for budget fallout as campaigns heads into ... - Canad...

" View Larger Image Election candidates Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Parti Qebecois leader Andre Boisclair chat during the St. Patrick's Day parade Montreal on Sunday, March 18, 2007. (CP/IAN BARRETT) Jonathan Montpetit, Canadian Press Published: Sunday, March 18,...

Get Over It

"Me thinks they protest too much. Canada owed an apology Hamilton Spectator By Robert Howard. It is something quite unusual to hear Stephen Harper, Stephane Dion and Jean Charest speaking virtually in unison.  Quebec 'gaffe' causes Royal grief ...

Social Capital

"Que. to fund companies with 'social conscience' "

Conservative State Capitalism

"Andrew a stalwart conservative is shocked, shocked I say, that the New Canadian Government is acting just like the last Canadian Government. The Harpocrites will continue to hand out taxpayer monies to Bombardier Inc."

Stupid Gun Argument

" I was waiting for this...As was said on this site here, the firearm registry did not save Anastacia DeSousa. But guns in the hands of the Dawson students could have."

Kim Campbell Redux

"Remember that famous line from former Conservative PM Kim Campbell that "an election is no time to discuss serious issues". I Well it looks like history is repeating itself. Harper said it wasn't the time to discuss government policies. Harper, Charest don't see...

A Little Gallic Foot In Mouth

"Something happens to Quebec politicians when they get to the old colonial homeland. They open their mouths and promptly stick their foot in it. Charest said in a television interview in Paris on Friday that the province had the means to separate, but that it wasn't in...

Political Imbalance

"The Fiscal Imbalance is just a clever cover for the Conservatives to launch their restructuring of Canada. So lets call a spade a shovel, for the Harpocrites its not a fiscal anything its a political imbalance."