You'd have supported RB Bennett's Hoover-esque Nazi-loving Tories?
Roch LaSalle was the MP for my family's birthplace. He was a good constituency MP (he delivered passports door-to-door to those who had asked for one), had a massive personal vote.
The Tories were not "pro-Quebec" (as ridiculous of a phrase that is) but rather supported the far-right clerical elite which controlled Quebec as a theocratic dictatorship until 1960. Until the Tories became the party of WASPs nationwide.
Supporting conscription is not 'anti-French', ftr.
I don't think I've ever seen a contemporary Bloc supporter who likes Trudeau.
And the corruption and stupid constitutional debates; and cut it out with the "pro-Quebec" crap.
Point #1: Looking at it at the time I would have yes. The Liberals had failed to keep the nation out of depression, so it was quite likely that I would have supported the Conservatives simply because of my own economic concerns.
Point #3: I will always support the reactionaries over the anti-clerical party. As a devout Catholic any attack on my faith is an attack on me personally.
Point #4: By that point the Liberals had shut up about being anti-clerical under Laurier, who I would support initially in large part because he was a Francophone. And yes, forcing men to fight for a war that was wrong and seen by most in Quebec at the time as a British war may not be anti-French, but it's still wrong.
Point #5: I'll give you that one actually lol
Point #6: Not a huge fan of Mulroney today, but at the time I believe he was the best option for Quebec federalism or separatism.
And yes, I do base my votes in large part on Quebec's federalism/nationalism/independence even. I don't think of Canada as one nation so much as Quebec and everyone else. Therefore I would support the party that best supported the "nation" of Quebec.
