Thankfully It's A Minority PQ Government

You know, in this case there really is a silver lining. While I questioned Charest's leadership, I closed ranks with the Liberals (but I'm closely watching the CAQ). I just couldn't take the chance with the tribal PQ hovering around.

The PQ won 54 seats of the 125 ridings to the Liberals 50 and CAQ 19. The "other" party - let's call them The Angry Peppermint Patty Party - won 2.

The more I ponder this result, the more I realize Quebec voters are pretty smart. They put the PQ in more as a protest against the Liberals knowing full well the PQ are insane so a minority keeps them in check. Meanwhile, the Liberals get to go sit in a corner to think about their corruption habits - like the Federal Liberals. The CAQ too were given a shot to see what they can do.

It's as if voters said, "I'm sick of the two of you so you get a neutered government and you get a chance to smartern up. Be careful because there's a third party option in the CAQ."

What this further tells me, is despite the student protest and the ethics and corruption scandal, and the call of the wild anti-English rhetoric to rile up the base, the PQ still couldn't win a majority. 65% of Quebecers are rational and want nothing to do with the PQ's platform of restricting personal liberties and dream of an independent state with no money. For the life of me I can't figure out how people can vote for a party that tells them where to send their kids to school.

Want a real separatist party? See the Basques. They not only have the guns and use them, they're the wealthiest part of Spain. The Catalans too have cash. Same with the Lombard League in Northern Italy. These regions are productive and have cash.

Here, it's the opposite, the heavily unionized province with the most debt and least productivity has the balls to want to fracture Canada while accepting transfer payments.

Bah. What do I know?

Anyway.

It was a good showing for the Liberals. I can't believe what I'm about to say, but they should hang in there.

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I wonder if Federalists who voted (wrongheadedly if you ask me) for the NDP federally, are worried about how the PQ can find a friend in the OFFICIAL OPPOSITION. I continue to chastise my friends who voted NDP "to kick the Bloc out." Idiots. Now the NDP are showing their true colors.

Be wary of the NDP. They ain't the docile, progressive, egalitarian, kittens you think they are.

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Somehow you just know 'The Unshaven' Leo Bureau-Blouin is going to do everything he railed against while practicing his demagogic skills as a student leader. He's going to learn well on how to take from the productive (like all good coercive social-democrats) to line his own pockets, ride his Bolshevik red square ass to a pension and expense accounts living as a public servant.
Watch.

This guy helped to cause so much damage in the form of loss revenues for businesses, it actually affected my own business in daycare. I lost a client because his losses in revenues were too great because of the protests.

I have no respect, patience or tolerance for kids who affect my wallet for a $365 tuition hike.

The ultimate irony is they may have to go ahead with the hikes because that's the reality of our finances.

He has Lord of the Flies written all over his face.

God, Laval-des-Rapides voted in an inexperienced 20 year old agitator on the union pay roll to rule over them? Really?