Posts tagged Parti Quebecois

Parti Quebecois governments led by former charismatic political leader of the decades of the 1970s, René Lévesque was almost the norm. The party and issues of the day, primarily and perpetually language that synergetic companion, were the electoral duality and synergy of political victory in any Quebec election. For the electorate and politicians alike, it became the political and electoral synergy of the era. What with the rise of social and political/provincial nationalism in a province that at the time perceived itself as a “have-not” part of Canada, and used its status as such to democratically extract as much as …