Bold choice for new BQ leader

[james_davis_nicoll]

Yields immediate results.

Comments

[redbird]

Yes. If I'd been voting in a Quebec provincial election years ago, the Bloc might have looked like a better choice than Charest's Liberals. (I'm not even a Canadian citizen, so that's highly hypothetical.)

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

Actually the Bloc Quebecois is a federal party only; Charest led the provincial Liberal party (after being in a different party at the federal level). You might be thinking of the Parti Quebecois, which is the provincial sovereigntist party. (And also has a lot of not-actual-sovereigntists voting for them just because they're not the Liberals.)

[redbird]

Thanks; somehow I keep getting the names Bloc and Parti Quebecois confused. And yes, that Charest was a Tory at the federal level is part of why I was skeptical of the provincial Liberal party he was leading.