Harper Realizes He’s Failed Quebecers

Realizing he really has no positive reasons left to offer the people of Quebec to vote for him and that's has consistently let them down, Harper figures “at least I'm not the devil” will do to keep what support he has left:
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Harper tells Quebecers he is not the 'devil'
Andrew Mayeda, Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, October 11, 2008
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Stephen Harper, looking to stem the dramatic slide of his party in Quebec, reassured Quebecers on Saturday that he is not the "devil incarnate."
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Somehow I don’t think this is how Conservatives in Quebec hoped their campaign would finish. With Harper now refusing to rule out that he may appoint more unelected Quebecers (including Fortier even if he loses) to the Senate to serve in his cabinet, it seems Harper is less optimistic about his chances in Quebec as he seems to be about those "great buys" on the stock market.

Quebecers clearly have a better option in Stephane Dion and the Liberal Party of Canada and I hope other Canadians take note that they seem to be the only party able to form a government with significant elected Quebec representation.

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Harper Cozying Up to the ADQ Again

It would seem Harper is content to play footsie again with a very regressive party now in distant last place in Quebec

Mr. Dumont's right-hand man in the National Assembly, MNA and House Leader Sébastien Proulx, is scheduled to announce on Wednesday that he is behind the Conservative candidate in his provincial riding of Trois-Rivières.....There were a number of prominent ADQ members in Saint-Eustache when Mr. Harper announced that the city's mayor and long-time ADQ supporter, Claude Carignan, was running for the party in that riding on Oct. 14.

I note there is no mention of provincial Liberal involvement helping Conservatives, I wonder what Charest thinks of all this? Why is Harper associating with a party who will likely be trounced by Charest in the next Quebec election?

Given that the ADQ numbers are in the low teens in Quebec in the last few polls I've seen, I don't see the harm in the Liberals making more of the Harper-ADQ association. After all, the ADQ's stands on immigration and women are pretty appalling and Harper seems to have no problems working closely with them nonetheless.

We'll see what the Liberals do, but for now, if Harper hasn't realized Dumont and his party's ship has sailed yet in Quebec that's fine by me.

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