Some interestings races...
Take Rosemont, for example where this Liberal candidate Nathalie Rivard (shh..she's a secret anglo, graduated from Queen's Finishing School in Kingston, etc... ) against some guy who looks like Sergei Kostitstyn of the PQ (that's Louise Beaudoin idiot - Chimples). We think Rivard has to get in, the ginger gene has to express itself in the provincial legislature.
We're also keenly watching academic John Saywell, this year's anglo separatist, a rare species we've missed since PQ Brit looney David Payne finished his career after a drunk driving rap. Coolopolis salutes anybody who can overcome his cognitive dissonance and support a party that seeks to repress his own language. Saywell wrote a book about the PQ. Saywell is running against David Whissel in Argenteuil, we suspect the Liberal incumbent has been poking around wine forums to get the proper temperature of refrigerated champagne he has at the ready.
Kathy Griffin?
ReplyDeleteAnd Rosemont also has Serge Valiquette for the Greens.
ReplyDeleteHe was supposed to run in Mercier against Daniel Turp (PQ) and Amir Khadir (QS). His party was afraid he would pull out to help Khadir win that they throttled him and parachuted someone else in instead. Rosemont was the consolation prize.
Also in Rosemont: FRAPRU honcho Francois Saillant for QS.
The Liberal in my riding (Ville-marie) is also a semi-hottie. The Sarah Palin effect?
ReplyDeleteI'm probably voting Quebec Solidarite, but they have a staunch pro-separatist stance also. Still I like some people who are working for them.
Please tell me where the provincial riding of "Ville-Marie" is located...I am curious as to where the artificial boundaries for this fictional land are.
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for Saywell, but a lot of the anglo Pequistes used to be former (or current) communists who saw the PQ as a progessive force.
ReplyDeleteCan't see that explanation holding up today though, especially with Quebec Solidarite right there
Wayne, no listing of Ville Marie as a provincial district.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.monvote.qc.ca/en/infoCirc_formulaire2.asp
There is, however, a Ville Marie in municipal, which is, of course, the downtown fiefdom of Labonte and Boulos.
Sorry, I messed up. My riding is Saint-Marie-Saint-Jacques, and the Liberal candidate there is a guy, and not hot. I was thinking of Julie
ReplyDeleteTremblay in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, whose signs I've seen because I live by rue Frontenac at the border of the two ridings.
Typing without checking, and thinking of the Federal Election, I think.
Shawn said: "can't speak for Saywell, but a lot of the anglo Pequistes used to be former (or current) communists who saw the PQ as a progessive force.
ReplyDeleteCan't see that explanation holding up today though, especially with Quebec Solidarite right there"
Both feuding branches of the Parti communiste are involved in QS.
Meh.
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of anglo-sovereignists; it should not be any more weirder than franco-federalists.
My very first boss of 30 years ago, a fresh off the boat pure-virgin-wool tea-drinking briton, complete with bowler hat, umbrella, tweed suits and right-hand drive Mini Cooper (riding with him was a hairy experience, being on the driver’s side sans steering wheel, especially when you din’t have a driver’s license) was a bona-fide “separatist” that kept bitching against the “maudits anglàs”, much to the annoyance of his pakistani, indian (it wasn’t so bad, the indian was muslim), german and iranian business partners who would studiously avoid uttering the slightest word in french.
When exposed to the true facts, anybody with a honest mind and no vested interests **WILL** become a sovereignist.
We have History on our side.
Rivard's expression makes her look ultra religious, or like she's in a cult.
ReplyDeleteThanks for calling Queen's U. a finishing school. I went there, and you're right.