"Quebec election: Liberals win majority"

[applegrove]

Quebec election: Liberals win majority

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-votes-2014/quebec-election-liberals-win-majority-1.2601555

"SNIP......................

Nineteen months after they were ousted from power, the Liberals in Quebec will form a majority government, CBC News projects.


The Liberals entered this election campaign as the official opposition, but battled back from a public backlash and integrity questions that saw the province elect its first Parti Québécois minority government in the fall of 2012.

Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard will also take his own seat of Roberval, CBC News projects, and will become the next premier.

Capitalizing on PQ missteps around the referendum and cultural issues, the Liberals convinced Quebecers that the “vraies affaires,” or real issues, that mattered most to the province were the economy and jobs



......................SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. No talk of separation for now. This is a great result.

[Ken Burch]

7. the issue is sovereignty, not "separatism"

"Separatism" is a right-wing Anglo-Canadian scare phrase. Even the PQ(which has become a horrible party now, dominated by anti-immigrant bigots and corporate toadies) wasn't actually proposing an independent Quebec.

[Rod Beauvex]

2. Not familair with Canadian politics.

Are these real liberals, as in progressive left type?

[applegrove]

3. Liberals in Canada are prudent. They like social programs and not having huge government debts.

They do whatever they can to create opportunity for all Canadians. To the left of Obama and the Clintons. But not so far away.

[Rod Beauvex]

4. Works for me. :)

Here's to Canada. I hope this is a sign of things to come.

[Ken Burch]

8. Not in Quebec. The Quebec Liberal Party is a bunch of right-wing hacks.

The PLQ had no progressive proposals in its election program, passed draconian anti-protest laws as a result of the growth of the massive anti-tuition hike and anti-austerity movement, and hasn't been left-of-center in any way at all since the days of the Quiet Revolution under PLQ premier Jean Lesage in the early-to-mid 1960's.

[EvilAL]

5. Fuck yeah

Seeya later you beady-eyed asshole...

[CHIMO]

6. Quebec election a boon for Harper, better for his opponents

Quebec elections are unlike any other in Canada, if only because the main federal party leaders can agree to keep quiet for fear of inciting the sovereigntist cause.

That self-imposed mutual silence has ended now that voters in Quebec returned the provincial Liberals to power, in the process rejecting both the Parti Quebecois and another referendum on independence.

Stephen Harper, characteristically, saved his reaction for the daily question period.

"All of us, in all parties have noted that Quebecers have rejected the holding of another referendum and want the government focused on job creation and the economy. And we'll work with the government of Quebec to do that.''

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/quebec-election-a-boon-for-harper-better-for-his-opponents-1.2603203
Apr 08, 2014 6:25 PM ET| Last Updated: Apr 08, 2014 7:18 PM ET

First result: Bye bye CBC.