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Being taken for granted is one thing. Being taken for a ride is another. Sadly, that is the fate of most non-francophone voters in Quebec, trapped into voting Liberal, even when the team is weak, the policies counterproductive, the record, at best, bleak.

What if we escaped from this trap, at least for a while? I’d like to give it a try.

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Make no mistake. I have been, am and will be in favour of independence. But I have made up my mind: A PQ government that I would lead in the next mandate, October 2018 to October 2022, would not hold a referendum, not spend a dime on the preparation or promotion of sovereignty. This task will be left to the independence movement itself, not to the government.

Why? Because very few Quebecers, even among PQ voters, feel the time is right to reopen the issue. Overwhelmingly, they feel that the task at hand is to replace the worst Liberal government in living memory with good, solid, progressive, green and clean government. That would be the PQ team I would love to lead.