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Parti Quebecois: Relative Quiet

Saddam Hussein Dept: Now Quebec voters will head to the ballot box Tuesday after 3,416 days of relative quiet on the national-unity front, with indications of that silence being shattered as polls point to the pro-independence Parti Quebecois being restored to power, according to CTV. Party leaders made a last pitch to voters on the final day of the campaign Monday, driving home their key messages and mONTREAL--The last time Quebec had a sovereigntist government the invasion of Iraq had just gotten under way and there was a frantic international search for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The final result, however, is far from certain given the potential for three-way vote splits that only compound unknown quantities like late shifts in voter sentiment and the strength of each party's get-out-the-vote operation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.