Quebec General Election 2012 (4th September)

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I presume that that acronym is significantly less amusing in French.

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That is the French acronym: Coalition pour l'avenir du Quebec,

Yes, but in English you would pronounce 'CAQ' as Cack. Is that word used in Canada? If not, then this is only funny to all three British people who follow Quebec provincial politics.

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Well, I for one am deeply shocked. I presume that everyone else here is... shocked?

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Purple? Of course if the ADQ are wiped out then it's not a problem.

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Pauline is going insane.

She expelled an MNA on Tuesday for perhaps being a mole.
She expelled another MNA on Thursday for thinking to join another party.

Remarkable. A mole? Really? Is the Tinker Tailor film out in Canada yet?

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J'adore le Quebec.

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CAQ is... cack?

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PLQ supporters are certainly stubborn as hell, aren't they?

Well, they tend to think that the other parties are (basically) the devil, so there you are.

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They stuck with him in '93, they'll stick with him now.

That was nineteen years ago. Things are different now: an excessively curly headed breath of fresh air he is absolutely not these days.

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Clearly they've looked at what happened in 2011 and drawn the wrong conclusions.

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Fix those links please.

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diolch

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Thing of provincial politics in Quebec as being like Scottish politics, but inverted in one very important aspect. Then the PLQ makes sense.

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Just heard that on radio.
CROP poll

PQ 34, PLQ 27, CAQ 25.

PLQ reduced to a West Island rump with those figures?

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Presumably the thing to do is set up a provincial party with links to the NDP but which isn't quite the same thing - call it the Parti Socialiste or something. And just let it run from there.

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Why on earth would anyone from outside Quebec support the PLQ right now?

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Why on earth would anyone from outside Quebec support the PLQ right now?

Because they're not the PQ. And if Satan himself was running against the PQ, I'd cheer for him.

Neither are the CAQ. I could understand leeriness regarding them from actual hardcore PLQ voters because they would be in a situation in which they would have to live with the outcome of the election; which is not something to be worried about when supporting something remotely.

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Some recent comments here serve to show why the PQ isn't sweeping all before it, even though, given its status as Official Opposition and the Charest government's manifest and multiple failings, it really ought to be...

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Liberals have lost Bonaventure. Was that widely predicted? Most of their other base ridings have stuck with them.

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Deleted a couple of posts that were... less than appropriate given circumstances, and also a couple of posts replying to said posts. That sort of thing is best avoided.

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Well, it comes as close to the "Alison Redford surprise" situation for the Grits as could have been managed, all things considered.

Yeah they actually have more seats than 1994, which is a little surprising given everything.

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The now traditional winning margin map. Use that well known magical spell to make it bigger.

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I fail to see how he would be an asset, given than he was negiociating his future job in the private health sector when he was still the Health minister, which isn't very clean nor ethical.

How so?

Oh don't be silly now.

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Sorry about the general lateness of this, but I don't have much genuine free time these days. The other three maps will be on their way at some point soon; hopefully all by the end of the week. Anyway. Pretty.

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