Referendum Strategy: Leadership Campaign and Pq Coalition

referendum strategy: The winner — to be announced Friday night on the heels of an all—members vote — will inherit a fractured party, short on new blood and rife with personal and policy divisions, according to The Chronicle Herald. Far from reconciling the various factions that make up what is left of the PQ coalition, the leadership campaign has exacerbated differences on referendum strategy and highlighted divisions on the party approach to the accommodation of religious minorities. But that is the fate that awaits the next leader of the Parti Québécois, whoever he or she might be. This week vote is not expected to resolve those issues. Former provincial minister Martine Ouellet made the holding of a referendum on Quebec independence at the first opportunity the mantra of her campaign. On the contrary, it could lead to more showdowns and possibly a party schism on the road to a general Quebec election scheduled for 2018. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.