Action Democratique Du Quebec: Mario Dumont

Montreal Gazette Dept: The ADQ is in a rebuilding phase. Founding leader Mario Dumont resigned on election night in December 2008. Current leader Gerard Deltell, a native of Quebec City and a former television journalist there, has been spending the last couple of weeks walking up and down the streets of the city of Montreal's mightyindustrialsuburbof St. Laurent, where a provincial by-election will be held on Monday, according to Montreal Gazette. On the face of it, Liberal candidate Jean-Marc Fournier is the heavy favourite to win on Monday. After 14 years in the National Assembly as a Liberal representing Chateauguay riding, Fournier quit politics in 2008. But the Chateauguay native has returned, at Premier Jean Charest's request, to run in Saint-Laurent. And Charest is so confident of victory that he preemptively named Fournier minister of justice last month, displacing Kathleen Weil and there is no such thing as an abridged history of the rise and fall of the Action democratique du Quebec. It's a very short history. The party's rise in 2007 was as sudden as its fall in 2008. After winning a breakthrough 41 seats in the 2007 general election, the ADQ fell back to just seven seats in 2008. The provincial riding of Saint-Laurent is one of the safest Liberal seats in Quebec, and it is an unlikely political arena for the ADQ to entertain notions of a comeback. But with the party still struggling to regain the confidence of francophone voters, Deltell sees Saint-Laurent as an opportunity to do something that Dumont never really did -get out there and press some real allophone and anglophone flesh, deep in the heart of multi-ethnic Montreal. As reported in the news.
@t ethnic montreal, jean charest