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Intense Public Debate: Parti Quebecois

Parti Quebecois: He was crushed in an election. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The PQ was leapfrogged by the Action Democratique du Quebec, a perennial also-ran that was propelled ahead during an intense public debate over the accommodation of minorities. MONTREAL - This Parti Quebecois leader was a Harvard-educated urbanite who praised minority accommodation, arguing that the province was an open society built by immigrants, with some of the most progressive human-rights standards in the world. To understand the current Parti Quebecois fixation with religious minorities and the clothes they wear, it's worth rewinding six years to explore the wreckage of Andre Boisclair's third-place implosion in the March 2007 campaign. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.