Parti Québécois Hypocrisy Has a New Face
PQ hypocrisy has a new face: Jean-François Lisée, elected as the PQ Member for Rosemont in 2012. When he was a journalist with L’actualite , I don’t remember ever feeling that he was unmeasured or unreasonable in the presentation of his ideas. When he debated Mordecai Richler on English-language television, he seemed not only more on top of the issues but the more reserved and rational of the two. I was therefore very curious to see how he would defend the Charte des valeurs in his press conference on RDI this week. His presentation and responses were brisk, vague and evasive: sure signs of a politician who knows he is skating on very thin ice, or just a man forced to defend a policy that he doesn’t believe in. When I quoted Premier Lucien Bouchard’s address to the Anglophone community of Quebec at Centaur Theatre, March 12, 1996, in my last posting, what I didn’t mention was that Jean-François Lisée was the Premier’s speech-writer at the time, as well as the organizer of