Landscape Strategy: Jacques Parizeau

Hockey Arena Dept: “To bring about sovereignty, there has to be a crisis ,” he argued, according to The Star. How else to explain why the PQ would tear itself to pieces over a hockey arena, of all things, when it stands a good chance of unseating the Liberals in the next election? Despite her solid lead in the polls, and 93-per-cent approval from the PQ rank and file just two months ago, Marois is suddenly faced with a caucus revolt that includes a call for her to resign. The timing is bizarre. So is the pretext and two years ago, former Parti Quecois premier Jacques Parizeau urged Quebec separatists to create “winning conditions” for independence by provoking the rest of Canada with demands for more powers over culture, language, immigration and the like. A federalist backlash would sour Quebecers on Confederation, he reasoned. Now, in an irony that can’t be lost on Liberal Premier Jean Charest’s federalist forces, PQ hardliners are using that same blow-up-the-landscape strategy on their own leader. They’ve created a crisis to force PQ Leader Pauline Marois to take a harder stance on separatism than she and most Quebec voters are comfortable with. As reported in the news.
@t quebec separatists, jean charest