Janette Bertrand and Pauline Marois

Pauline Marois: As Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois set out Sunday to secure her re-election, she ceded that task to an 89-year-old Quebec entertainment icon, Janette Bertrand, who, at the risk of sending the PQs election message off course yet again, shared her growing fear of Muslim fundamentalists overtaking the swimming pool in her apartment building, according to The Star. Fear of losing referendum has silenced sovereigntists: PQ minister QUE. The final week of an election is the crucial time for political parties to implant in voters minds the so-called ballot question: the defining issue that should guide their vote. Odd as it may sound, Bertrands example was offered up in defence of Marois popular-but-divisive values charter, a proposal that would ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols at work and clamp down on demands for reasonable faith-based accommodation and enshrine the equality of the sexes and secularism in Quebec law. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.