With the recent 30th anniversary of the last Quebec sovereignty referendum , we were reminded of Jacques Parizeau’s remarks blaming the Yes side’s narrow loss on money and ethnic votes.
Now, if the separatist Parti Québécois could somehow chip away at the non-francophone opposition to independence, might the Yes option finally win?
PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon seems to think so and has occasionally tried the charm offensive, addressing the anglophone community directly. Last week, on The Gazette’s Corner Booth podcast , he ruefully asked why anglophones always vote the same way and don’t “make a choice based on their best interest?”
Best interest? Hmm.
When you’re buying a used car, beware of the slickest, or the seemingly most earnest, salesman. As I sliced through PSPP’s down-t

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