NOTES ON POLLING, TURNOUT AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF CANADA AND QUEBEC
[Ottawa – October 12, 2012] The Quebec election was remarkable for a number of reasons. The narrow victory of a Parti Québecois (PQ) government, with an avowed goal of separation from Canada, is not causing that many ripples in English Canada. While Levesque prescribed a Valium to deal with the visceral angst in 1980, the current reaction to the prospect of another referendum in Canada appears to range somewhere between indifference and hostility. There is a consensus that the issue of separation is pretty well… [More...]