This is interesting... and I don't hear any of the talking heads in the Québec MSM mentioning it but if we take the results of the latest major poll...
 | Parti Libéral | 33% |
 | Parti Québécois | 29% |
 | Action Démocratique | 26% |
 | Québec Solidaire | 06% |
 | Parti Vert | 06% |
...and feed them to the most sophisticated
seat projector out there, this is the result we get:
Total seats in the Québec legislature: 125
| | Parti Libéral | 46 seats |
| Parti Québécois | 53 seats |
| Action Démocratique | 26 seats |
The
Sovereigntist PQ gets to form the government!
I actually find this very interesting for a few reasons:
First, it shows once again the skewering inherent in our system where the liberals (overly concentrated in Montreal) can win the popular vote and still lose the election. We actually have a long history of this.
But mainly, It's going to sabotage Stephen Harper's plans... but possibly not enough to completely derail them. It's going to be interesting for fans of the game (like myself) to see how this bold strategist will handle the new political landscape.
The other thing I like is that though the sovereigntists would form the government, a minority ensures the other parties can prevent them from shoving a sovereignty referendum (which almost no one here wants) down our throats during their term... they just get to govern.
The thing most outsiders don't understand about why we
Québécois keep putting separatists in power even though we don't
really want to seperate from Canada is that, "political instability" notwithstanding, these guys tend to give us pretty darn
good government ...and responsible to boot! The reason for that is simply that they're desperate to convince us that they could manage the
country of Québec and in the process they end up managing the province pretty competently... for idealists!
;)
A self-centered french-speaking thirty-something north-american male with delusions of having something to say
