PQ secrets

  Former federalist Liberal provincial Premier Robert Bourassa was one of the founders of the separatist Parti Quebecois. Sorta.

According to an old timer friend who knows where all the bones were buried, Bou-bou attended many of the first meetings of the fledgling party, which were held at a Church on Cote St.Catherine in Outremont.

Another little known fact: when Rene Levesque ran down drunken war veteran Edgar Trottier and dragged him 140 feet to his death at McDougall and Cedar at 4:15 am on February 6, 1977 , he wasn't - as was reported - actually driving.

His secretary, main squeeze Corinne Cote was. He claimed he was at the wheel to avoid scandal. He was already estranged from his wife and divorced officially two years later. How did Trottier get to be lying in the middle of the street anyway? Cops got sick of seeing him drunk downtown and drove him up to Cedar and dumped him there. Levesque and lady company were drunk driving of course, even though Yves Michaud - who had been at the same party as them - claimed that Levesque had not been drinking. And lastly: Levesque at the end was so bitter against his bad treatment at the hands of the PQ grassroots that he reportedly opined "I regret having started that party in the first place."