To answer Izzy's question below, I have little to say about the André Boisclair resignation. He was a disastrous leader from the start and proof positive that, to alter slightly the words of the title of Peggy Noonan's excellent book on Ronald Reagan, Character is King.
As has been noted many times by many people, including by me tonight on Rob Breakenridge's radio show, Boisclair was too snobby, too elitist, too Montreal, too gay and too leftwing for rural francophone Quebec. The PQ is ideologically out-of-whack with its base and that dynamic is likely continue if ex-Maoist Gilles Duceppe takes over the party. They won't change.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 12:37 AM
