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How about a compromise? Executive members asked to step down once they reach 100. — Graeme Hamilton (@grayhamilton) February 9, 2017

Noting the party has launched such soul-searching exercises in the past and not acted, Plamondon says his report could be tagged “Groundhog Day” for the party.

Plamondon, who started his consultation process last October after losing his leadership bid to Jean-François Lisée, says there is a feeling in the party that it has lost its “humanist” side.

The party, he says, is “frozen in the past, conservative and aging.”

Worse for the future, the party barely speaks to its membership about diversity, and those minorities who do join the party are “fed up at being asked where they come from or to be tagged with a visible minority label.”

Plamondon, who met with 2,000 people at 90 different events during his consultation, makes 108 recommendations including obliging executive members who are over 70 to retire. The party should also give itself the power to ban members who behave like trolls on social media.

Reaction to the report was swift.

At a news conference before the PQ’s morning caucus, Lisée, who commissioned the report, welcomed it.

“We got our money’s worth, we really got our money’s worth,” he said. “There is nothing extraordinarily surprising. It’s more detailed and what’s great is the 100 recommendations about how to go forward from now on.

“I think it will help us a lot.”

Lisée, nevertheless, said the report shows the PQ has more youth than other parties.

“So I think we have work to do, but we are in better shape than these other guys.”

But Vachon MNA Martine Ouellet, who is wearing two hats now because she also is seeking the leadership of the Bloc Québécois, poured cold water on the report, saying it is “alarmist.”