Seperatist Leader Quits

The Globe and Mail is reporting that the provincial leader of the seperatist Parti Quebequois, Bernard Landry, has resigned after receiving a confidence vote of 76.2%.

Apparently a 76.2% majority of party members is not enough of a majority for Landry. Ironic because a 50% plus one vote for sovereignty in a referendum on Quebec independence is way more than enough to unleash hell to the seperatists. Just not enough apparently for a confidence vote of party members of their leader.

This will change everything. Quebec Liberal leader Jean Charest's government will no doubt get a boost from the PQ's leadership issues. They've been floundering of late to the PQ's benefit. What hasn't helped is the federal sponsorship scandal has tarnished all Liberals, even provincial Liberals as crooks liars and criminals.

I find Quebec politics to be a little nutso sometimes. The last three leaders of the Liberals and PQ in Quebec have been acclamations... I can't recall Jean Charest's election but I'm pretty sure it was an acclamation. Landry never faced a leadership race, and neither did Bouchard before him. I guess Quebequers can't stand to see internal divisions. Otherwise all these acclamations don't make any sense. What's the point? Why not have a leadership election and generate some excitment?

Everyone will start talking about the big cheese in Ottawa coming in to save the seperatist cause in Quebec now... That would be the leader of the seperatist leader of the federal Bloc Quebequois Party Gilles Duccepe - more reknown for wearing styling hair nets more than anything else. Well that and his victory in the last election that almost oblitirated the federal Liberals in Quebec has given him the air of a winner.

Since Duccepe publicly supported Landry for the leadership of his provincial cousins, he's in the perfect position to ride in and get an acclamation of his own. The people that were against Landry will be happy they have a new leader, and so will be those that loved Landry to begin with.

If Duccepe does jump ship it may decrease the bite the Bloc has had in parliament recently. Also the bloc's eagerness to go into an election may be lost while they find a new leader to replace Duccepe.

If any of that happens federal politics will shift again. Will this corrupt Liberal regime ever end?

Well just another day in this wacky place called Canada where we allow people who want to split up the country to sit in our National parliament. I guess we have a death wish here up in the great white north.