Pauline Marois

Parti Quebecois Dept: The Parti Quebecois ought, by all rights, to be a shoo-in when Quebecers go to the polls on Sept. 4. The fact that the province s election is even considered a contest underlines the weakness of the party and the separatist movement that it leads, according to Winnipeg Free Press. So it ought to be the moment for Pauline Marois and the PQ to slip effortlessly back into power, given Quebecers tendency to kick the bums out every eight or nine years. The Pequistes may well win, but it won t be a cake walk. Partly it s leadership: Marois is a lightweight and an opportunist who looked ridiculous banging pots at the head of the student street protests and pauline Marois is greeted by PQ candidate and former student leader L o Bureau-Blouin during a campaign stop Thursday in Laval, Que. After nine years in power, the Liberal government of Premier Jean Charest should be ripe for the picking. Seventy per cent of voters tell pollsters they re dissatisfied with its performance. The province s finances are a mess, and the Liberals have the stink of corruption. The unrest whipped up by students and their supporters over tuition fees made the government look alternately feeble and enraged. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.