So why does the Bloc Québécois exist again?

[NDP Newbie]

Mario Dumont (CPC Quebec "lieutenant" and token CPC libertarian), Jean Lapierre (LPC Quebec "lieutenant"), and Piere Ducasse (NDP Quebec "lieutenant") are all sovereigntists.

If the Bloc doesn't disband, Gilles Duceppe should check into an insane asylum. (Or not. I like his social democratic politics, though am less fond of his Maoist past, but I'm beginning to question the existance of separatist parties with this deveopment.)

[August1991]

Mario Dumont (CPC Quebec "lieutenant" and token CPC libertarian), Jean Lapierre (LPC Quebec "lieutenant"), and Piere Ducasse (NDP Quebec "lieutenant") are all sovereigntists.

Your description makes about as much sense as saying George W. Bush is against the monarchy because he's a Republican.

I'll ignore Ducasse and talk of Dumont and Lapierre.

Dumont was head of the youth wing of the provincial Liberals when Meech Lake hit. Meech Lake was the result of Trudeau's 1982 patriation of the Constitution which itself was the result of the 1980 referendum in which Trudeau said a No vote is a Yes vote for change.

(Note that the federal Liberals have not won a majority in Quebec since Trudeau in 1980.)

A young Dumont teamed up with Jean Allaire and prepared an insane report, an advisory to Bourassa, then premier, that would have amounted to Quebec "independance" - while keeping equalization payments, passports, money and so on. When Bourassa tossed this out, Dumont left and created the ADQ.

Then Dumont, still young and impressionable, got the "right-wing religion" and the ADQ has generally been unsuccessful in general elections since. He avoids questions about independance by saying that's "so old style".

Lapierre is Quebec's Brian Tobin. Political up to his eyeballs. He quit the Liberals because of 1) Meech Lake and 2) Chretien. He founded the BQ but God knows if he has a position on anything really.

The BQ? It's basically the Quebec remnants of Brian Mulroney's coalition and anyone else dissatisfied by the failure of Meech Lake. In elections, it benefits from the separatist vote - they can now vote federally with a clear conscience.

The choices of coherent individuals does not necessarily add up to coherent actions of a society. Too many posters to this forum ignore this obvious fact of social science.

Quebec, the US and Canada provide good evidence of this maxim.