Pauline Marois: Ontario Institute For Studies In Education

Jean Charest Dept: Parti Qu b cois leader Pauline Marois deserves credit for weathering a tumultuous few months of MNA defections, calls for her resignation, and underwhelming public support. Recent polls show that the PQ has rebounded. If a spring election were called, there are solid indications that Marois could hold her own against both Fran ois Legault's Coalition Avenir Qu bec and Jean Charest's Liberals, according to Montreal Gazette. To that last end, Marois has assembled a new committee on sovereignty - a committee made up entirely of white francophones and mostly men. Of the 12 politicians, union leaders, intellectuals, artists and actors in the group, only three including Marois are women. is a Montrealer and a PhD candidate in sociology and equity studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. This renewed success can be attributed, in large part, to Marois's capitulation to the party hardliners on a number of issues, including a promise to lower the voting age to 16, implement citizen-initiated referendums and ramp up the push for independence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.