... but unfortunately you need to be a Post online subscriber to see it. A taste:
QUEBEC CITY - On policy matters, the federal Conservative Party and the Parti Québecois have little in common. But when it comes to internal politics, they share a crucial characteristic: a penchant for cannibalizing their leaders.
The Tories voted to overthrow John Diefenbaker in 1966 and did the same thing to Joe Clark in 1983. The péquistes liked to kick Rene Levesque around once in a while, forced out Pierre-Marc Johnson in 1987 after just two years at the helm and humbled Lucien Bouchard with a borderline result when he faced his first confidence vote.
In fact, Bouchard earned a 76.7% approval rating at that 1996 convention, just a half-percentage point more than Bernard Landry got here Saturday. But unlike Bouchard, who stayed on to fight -- and win -- the next provincial election, Landry threw in the towel.
I'll post the whole thing in a week or so.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:04 AM
