Parti Quecois: Quebec

Stephen Harper Dept: Pauline Marois gets the chance to abandon her divisive politics of pitting pure laine Quebecers against others, and become the premier of all citizens, regardless of religion, ethnicity or mother tongue. It may be too much to expect but she also has the greater opportunity to evolve the Parti Quecois from a one-trick pony into a liberal party with a distinct Quebec voice on economic and social issues, including gun control, and act as a restraining force on Harper's militaristic and unilateralist foreign policy, according to The Star. With the PQ's victory, there's no point arguing that it has no mandate to seek sovereignty, since Quebecers have merely thrown out the tired and corruption-tainted Liberals and elected only a minority government with less than a third of the votes cast. That's not going to deter the PQ and the election of the Parti Quecois provides Stephen Harper a historic opportunity to become a great prime minister by burying separatism without alienating too many Quebecers. With the separatists in power in Quebec, citizens in English Canada will get the responsibility to speak out against any resurgence of the bad old days of bigotry against Quebecers, ugly manifestations of which we've seen in our own lifetime, during the 1968 Official Languages Act controversy, the 1970 October Crisis, and during the 1980 and 1995 referendums on sovereignty. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.