Quebec General Election 2012 (4th September)

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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.

Well, I got it.

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The CAQ has a commanding lead in the polls, although surely they'll fall quite a bit, right?

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LOL, Parti Quebecois is a joke!

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AND, the election's gonna be some horrific FPTP nightmare, on top of all this.

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Well, kaka means poop, is that what you're trying to get at? Interestingly, I think the term is used more in Quebec.

Kack is British English slang (although, from my understanding, quite obscure) for poo, yeah.

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Can anyone give me a summary of the Quebecois parties?

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Adequistes

I love French.

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when they have "winning conditions" nothing changes eh.

Separatists are horrendous.

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If I was Quebecois, i'd vomit in the voting booth if my real choice was between QLP, PQ and the CAQ. Horrible party system, horrible.

(Of course, i'd hold my breath and vote QLP out of sheer hatred of separatist movements in places like Quebec.)

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Comedy gold: Duceppe accuses Khadir of not being a real separatist because he voted NDP federally.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1237078--quebec-election-2012-duceppe-lashes-out-at-quebec-solidaire-leader

Former leader, current nobody Duceppe's opinion matters?

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And i'd probably not vote Green, so...

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Why hasn't the NDP created a Quebecois provincial party for the National Assembly?

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Seems that CAQ has (traditional) LibDem syndrome: polling like crap until the writs are dropped.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TncdhLGjFTE

My hackish view of separatism (Quebecois and Scottish), summed up.

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Here is what i predict - the CAQ party will soon overtake the Liberals and that will cause even more Liberal voters to start to vote "strategically" for CAQ just to stop the PQ (like the way last year there was a flood of federal Liberal voters going NDP the moment the NDP started to overtake the Liberals)...I think we will end up in a minority situation where the PQ has the largest number of seats followed by the CAQ and the Liberals are reduced to being an anglophone rump. The PLQ will then make a deal with Legault to block Marois and we will have a CAQ minority government.

Premier Legault. *sn*

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Election is tomorrow ? Well, let's cross fingers. PQ might not be great, but Charest ought to be kicked out.

Outright PQ majority will probably have bad impact on NDP's electability federally.

Why so ?

Because it would reignite the old separatism fire and make it harder for NDP to win BC and ON.

Is modern PQ still interested in pushing forward separatism ? I apologize for my limited knowledge of Québec politics, but I thought the issue had been toned down in the past decade. I doubt there is a chance for a new referendum to be nearly as close as 1995, and the BQ's failure in 2011 is also a sign Quebecois aren't really interested on the issue.

Marois doesn't appear the most moderate person in the PQ on the issue.

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A pyrrhic victory for the PQ with less support than in 2008 with a leader who is marginally more popular than the worst Premier of the province in recent history is not a sign that the "separatism fire" has been reignited, and Marois' shenanigans on the issue and a little fight with Harpy won't change matters.

Anyhow, guys, as fun as the "Marois is a fascist/radical" game has been, Marois is a technocrat who has only been playing the Marine Le Pen/referendum cards to appease the hardliners in the PQ who, lest we forget, almost killed her last year. So even if the PQ's campaign has been disgusting and reminiscent of the FN in more than one way, I don't believe the horror stories and the panic.

I'd never made the connection to MLP, but now that you mention it...

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Imagine if Quebec pulled an Alberta here.

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I'm going with a PQ minority government and a Liberal Official Opposition.  I think we'll see a good showing from CAQ, which will keep PQ from a majority.  Although, if it's close, it'll be interesting to see if there is some sort of coalition government with PQ and Québec solidaire.  But PQ would have to just barely fall short of 63 for that to happen.

There'd never be a "coalition" involving QS surely. They strike me as one of those parties which bases its whole rhetoric on not being the establishment.

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Don't image this lasting long on those numbers.