Coalition Avenir Quebec: Quebec Government

Pauline Marois Dept: Even Marois acknowledged during the campaign that a minority result would tie her hands. She lacks support for a referendum, and for her other odious policies, according to The Star. Despite a spirited surge by Fran ois Legault's nationalist Coalition Avenir Quebec, Quebecers stuck with the alternative they knew. They opted for the PQ, secure in the knowledge that they can always vote against sovereignty at a later date and the Parti Quebecois victory isn't good news for Canada, but neither is it a calamity. We've been here before, no fewer than five times since the PQ shook up Canadian politics with its first government in 1976. Despite her win PQ Leader Pauline Marois was held to a minority, on a short leash, leaving her in a poor position to pick fights with Ottawa over provincial powers, much less spearhead a drive to break up the country. In many ways it is a hollow victory. From t of this dismal election it's been clear that Quebecers wanted change after three successive Liberal governments under Jean Charest, a staunch federalist. No Quebec government since the Quiet Revolution has won a fourth consecutive mandate, and this one had grown complacent, sloppy and corruption-tainted. Last night Charest and his party paid the price, though the Liberals managed to salvage official opposition status, staving off the rout many had feared. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.