Québec: Preferred Premier/Prime Minister

[RogueBeaver]

Charest, speaking as a Québécois.

[RogueBeaver]

Only Charest or Marois have a shot at becoming Premier, and I'd put odds on Charest simply because he's the better campaigner and this election will be won in the campaign.

[RogueBeaver]

QS doesn't have a chance at anything except perhaps siphoning votes away from Marois in places where she'd need them to form government.

[RogueBeaver]

Speaking as an Anglo myself, Marokai's right. A lot of this is internal pressure- and considering that she barely survived a caucus revolt in a party which has overthrown or pressured out 5 of her 6 (except Parizeau) predecessors, internal pressure'has to be taken seriously by any PQ leader who wants to stick around.

Her record in office is that of a technocratic social democrat. In a recent magazine profile she  named her two biggest political accomplishments: educational reform and creation of our public daycare system when she ran those ministries in the last PQ government. Culture was never mentioned except in passing. I'm certain she will pass the language legislation with a majority, less sure about the cultural stuff. To use a Tom Friedman analogy, the Liberals mouth the words while the PQ belts them out. But all 3 parties use the same cultural hymn book in practice, though the Liberals sometimes diverge in theory when in the mood.


On the OP: None of the above. CAQ is too amateurish, Liberals way too corrupt. Charest if forced to choose. Maybe Harvey if I wanted to waste my vote (which is wasted because my riding is overwhelmingly PLQ)