XPost: can.politics, ont.politics, qc.politique
From: campbell@neotext.ca
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 01:55:00 +0000, The Doctor wrote:
> In article ,
> =?UTF-8?B?Q29uyYDGpkNvbsmA?= wrote:
>>He's a doctor. And a fat one. He'd be a better fit for the Harper
>>Conservatives, I think.
>
> Not Justin, Phillippe.
>
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>>
>>
>>Quebec Bureau, Published on Sat Mar 08 2014
>>
>>
>>Liberal Gaétan Barrette voted for sovereignty in 1995, PQ claims
>>
>>Star candidate for federalist Liberal party in Quebec voted to separate
>>from Canada in 1995 referendum, according to senior Parti Québécois
>>member, a claim Barrette denied in a later a tweet.
>>
>> MONTREAL—A star candidate for the federalist Liberal party in Quebec
>>claimed to have voted to separate from Canada in the 1995 referendum,
>>according to a senior Parti Québécois member.
>>
>>Dr. Gaétan Barrette, the former head of the province’s federation of
>>medical specialists, boasted in an interview televised Friday night that
>>PQ leader Pauline Marois tried to convince him to run for her
>>sovereigntist party in the run-up to the last election campaign in 2012.
>>
>>Asked about the overture that was ultimately rejected (Barrette ran as a
>>candidate for the Coalition Avenir Québec but was defeated), outgoing PQ
>>minister Bernard Drainville told reporters Saturday that Barrette had
>>been shopping himself around to all parties ahead of the last election.
>>
>>Before any offer was made, Drainville said he wanted to test Barrette’s
>>sovereigntist leanings.
>>
>>“I asked Mr. Barrette: So, are you a sovereigntist? And he told me: ‘I
>>voted yes in 1995,’ ” Drainville said.
>>
>>Barrette later tweeted that he told the PQ it was his family who voted
>>for independence, not him.
>>
>>The 1995 referendum was the second attempt by a Parti Québécois
>>government to make Quebec an independent nation. The first was in 1980.
>>The federalist “No” side won the 1995 vote by the thinnest of margins.
>>
>>In this election, Barrette has been rolled out as one of the Quebec
>>Liberal party’s health experts by leader Philippe Couillard, who is
>>himself a neurosurgeon. Couillard is an unabashed federalist and has
>>repeatedly attacked Marois’s party in the opening days of the campaign
>>for seeking a majority government in order to hold a third referendum.
>>
>>“It would be interesting to ask Mr. Couillard if there are
>>sovereigntists in his party,” Drainville remarked Saturday.
>>
>>Couillard, who was campaigning in the towns of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
>>and Drummondville, did not immediately respond to the revelations about
>>Barrette.
>>
>>The leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, which had 18 seats in the
>>legislature when the election was called, said on Saturday that he would
>>vote against independence in any possible third referendum. François
>>Legault , a former PQ minister, was dogged in the 2012 campaign by an
>>ambiguous position that he was neither a sovereigntist nor federalist.
>>
>>
>>http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/08/liberal_gatan_ba
rette_voted_for_sovereignty_in_1995_pq_claims.html
>>
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>> The problem with political jokes is they
>>get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
>>
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One of the key features of the Sponsorship Scandal was that it
proved that Pols take Payola regardless of their ideological pretenses.
Thank Jean Crouton for that bit of honesty ;)
Dhu
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