Comments on: Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair steps down http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/05/08/parti-quebecois-leader-andre-boisclair-steps-down/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:06:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mark Byron http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2007/05/08/parti-quebecois-leader-andre-boisclair-steps-down/#comment-87772 Mark Byron Wed, 09 May 2007 04:29:17 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/?p=3118#comment-87772 Boisclair may well have a future... with the ADQ. His politics aren't that far from the ADQ, as he's a free-marketer and a rather "Soft separatist." He's young enough to take another run at things at a better time and place. The BQ/PQ have to figure out how to exist as a left-of-center Francophone party on issues other than independence, since that seems not to be in the cards. The Bloc might in time wind up adopting the NDP as their federal outlet, like the ADQ-Tory de-facto alliance. Boisclair may well have a future… with the ADQ. His politics aren’t that far from the ADQ, as he’s a free-marketer and a rather “Soft separatist.” He’s young enough to take another run at things at a better time and place.

The BQ/PQ have to figure out how to exist as a left-of-center Francophone party on issues other than independence, since that seems not to be in the cards. The Bloc might in time wind up adopting the NDP as their federal outlet, like the ADQ-Tory de-facto alliance.

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