Pierre Pettigrew: Jean Talon

Community Activist Dept: While eliminating some of Mr. Harper’s small foothold in Quebec is the Bloc’s main goal, getting rid of pesky Mr. Trudeau is surely another high priority. The only chant of the Bloc campaign so far took place earlier in the day, in that safe Bloc riding about 20 kilometres from Mr. Trudeau: “ On prend Papineau! ” We’ll take Papineau, according to Globe And Mail. Mr. Trudeau took the seat in the last election despite Mr. Duceppe’s extraordinary last-minute plea that Mr. Trudeau must be defeated for the good of “our language and our nation.” Looking back, Mr. Trudeau, clearly relishes the intervention by the Bloc Leader and mr. Duceppe greeted shoppers Sunday at the Jean-Talon urban market in the heart of Mr. Trudeau’s Papineau riding after leaving behind the secure confines of a downtown news conference and a safe riding in a Montreal suburb. Mr. Duceppe prefers to sing the praises of his own candidate, Vivian Barbot, a well-regarded community activist of Haitian roots whom Mr. Trudeau defeated narrowly in 2008. She, in turn, had narrowly beat Liberal cabinet minister Pierre Pettigrew in 2006. As reported in the news.
@t montreal suburb, globe and mail