Québec Provincial Election

[Che Guava]

Rhymes: Damn you quebecers! What is it about your genepool that produces so many beautiful women?!!

What's the green party in Quebec all about? Are they part of the international movement/congress of greens?

 

[De Lorimier]

EDIT: Oops, Am I too late for this. Thought it was a recap. Should have read the dates. Enjoy anyhow


I live in the riding of Laurier-Dorion in Montréal. So I'll just copy paste RB
In L-D, it's pretty simple, 90% of people living on St-Denis and to the east vote PQ, 90% of people living west of St-Denis vote Libs, and a few red neck rebels like me vote ADQ.

The candidates are:

Elsie Lefebvre (Incumbent)

I agree I'de give her a ride any days. Even though I'm anti PQ she could probably convince me with the right arguments

Gerry Sklavounos
The large immigrant community of Parc-extension see themselves in him I guess. 10% of Laurier-Dorion citizen are greeks, nuff said.

Sabrina Dugay
Got my vote this year, even though he's the candidate I know the less about. She was in the riding of Nelligan in 2003. Thats about it.

Ruba Ghazal
Communist freak.

Sébastien Chagnon-Jean
Great guy, very brilliant imo. He could get my vote if the ADQ doesn't satisfy me untill the next elections. If he stays in L-D.

This is it for laurier-Dorion.

Typical AdQ voter! Anti PQ (no explanation, just against it!), calls a candidate of QS a communist, votes for the candidates he knows less about. Great political mind you have there Rhymes!

 

[sysyphus]

Rhymes: Damn you quebecers! What is it about your genepool that produces so many beautiful women?!!

It's a little thing called the Lancome counter at la Baie.

 

[Che Guava]

It's a little thing called the Lancome counter at la Baie.

What, you mean the fumes affect my perception....?

 

[Goonie]

Harper doesn't like Charest because last I heard the ROC newspapers are howling for (Charest) blood :-D.

Of course I may be wrong.

The ROC would be calling for Charest's blood regardless of what he did with the 3 billion.

 

[Goonie]

@Che-

duh!

That is why I am strong advocator against clear-cutting! Those hairs produce tantalizing aromas that increase pleasure and heighten desire!

 

[Evie]

And here comes the circus, with the Péquistes leader howling for Boisclair's blood. How thoroughly predictable.

Shame, really, when the vast majority of the problem is the simple fact that the PQ itself has refused to evolve with a population that no longer wants to hear about referendum.

Boisclair and Landry may or may not have "connected with" the population.

But their party has lost touch with the average Québecer's reality long since, to focus exclusively on their obsession.

 

[Che Guava]

And here comes the circus, with the Péquistes leader howling for Boisclair's blood. How thoroughly predictable.

There was a great quote about the old federal progressive conservatice : they are the only political animals that eat thier leaders in public (dang, did I get that right? Anyone know what I'm talking about here?) In any event, i wasn't aware that the PQ were of a similar species...!

Shame, really, when the vast majority of the problem is the simple fact that the PQ itself has refused to evolve with a population that no longer wants to hear about referendum.

Boisclair and Landry may or may not have "connected with" the population.

But their party has lost touch with the average Québecer's reality long since, to focus exclusively on their obsession

It's true. If the PQ could find a graceful way to leave behind the referendum question (or at least put it on hold until conditions improve...), I think they would be the most viable political party on the scene: a foot in the cities and another in the rural areas, a progressive yet responsible approach...Let's hope the political shakedown manages to wake up a few PQistes...

 

[De Lorimier]

Hopefully, in the meantime, the citizens of Québec will know what they want. While only a little over 30% of the votes went to sovereingtist parties (PQ & QS), 70% of the votes went against the only federalist party.
The Autonomist option doesn't mean **** to people in the RoC. So what now?

 

[pboily]

The age-old question: is a vote for the PQ necessarily a vote for souverainete? And conversely?

I don't see how I could have voted for anybody on that list.

PLQ - federalists: good. Health, education, etc. : bad.
PQ - separatists: bad. Other policies: better than the others (at least, it seems that way to me).
ADQ - autonomists: WTH?. Other policies: atrocious.
PVQ - no real opinion on the federal question: good. no real opinion on anything but the environment: bad.
QS - separatists: bad. Other policies: most of them baffle me. I guess these are the promises of a party that knows won't get elected... how exactly will you pay for cheap higher education and small class sizes + better health care, etc...

 

[Rhymes]

Indeed, who you vote for doesn't necesseraly represent if your separatist or not.
I'm personally a moderate separatist, in the sense that I would vote YES on a referendum, but it's far from being my first priority.

So by voting ADQ, I didn't vote against a referendum, I voted for a stronger economy which can't be achieved with the PQ.

Many people would like to see Quebec's independance, but not the way the PQ presents it. I don't want a sovereign Quebec if we're going to be that far left and make business's flee to Canada. (Just the way they fled to Ontario when the Tax on capital was introduced by the PQ).

Give me a more moderate and centrist party with separatist ambitions, and I'm in!