Quebec General Election 2012 (4th September)

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The public is losing sympathy as these strikes grow increasingly violent. Nor should Charest negotiate with a mob. Rates should be the same as they are in English Canada.

I've never understood support for raising tuition rates just as a general idea. It's one of the most pointlessly vindictive policy proposals I can think of. Given that, I have a lot of respect for the determination of the student protestors in Quebec. They should be standing up to defend themselves against a pointless budget move that punishes people seeking an education in return to not really raising that much money.

That being said, though, why is this

Rates should be the same as they are in English Canada.

inherently desirable?

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

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I am immensely amused how the PQ is on track to a majority despite almost certainly getting a smaller percentage of the vote than in their 2008 defeat.

Canadian election results can be amusing that way.

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Bit of a PQ bump in the last couple of days, it seems?

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The fates are against you, Vosem. We already knew this.

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What Max said. The map will appear on their site once the polls close. No sense in having a giant empty map on the site for hours.

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Anybody want a mibbit chat?

#quebec2012?

Is it too much to ask for just a traditional forum thread instead of the conversation being split to a silly chat room like everywhere else

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Wut, the greens are leading in a riding ?

Seemed like a mistake.

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Looks more and more like a PQ minority.

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She's already promised an early election if a minority. Once the corruption inquiry reports... that'll do the work for her.

Could that boot the Liberals from the official opposition too, possibly?

I doubt it, but I'm no expert. In the (increasingly likely) event of another election around the corner, I suspect the CAQ (PQ would probably tone down sovereigntist rhetoric in that event) and QS vote would drop and the ON vote would probably almost entirely evaporate. If anything it would be just enough to bump the PQ into weak majority territory, it wouldn't change the current Liberal share that much. They're stubborn as hell.