Pauline Marois: Harper Tories

Stephen Harper Dept: From her opening remarks, and throughout the debate, Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois highlighted her strategy of confrontation with the Harper Tories, according to The Chronicle Herald. I will never let Stephen Harper choose for us, Marois said, in an oblique reminder of spats with the Tories over employment insurance, justice policy and transfer payments and mONTREAL The woman who could be elected Quebec s premier in two weeks used a televised leaders debate to repeatedly attack Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a hint Sunday of federal-provincial battles that could follow the Sept. 4 provincial election. Marois did not even make a reference to her own party s raison d etre, Quebec independence, in her opening remarks. There was simply a reference to the prime minister. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.