Progressively Conservative Liberal Charest Gaffes Up

Progressively Conservative Liberal Premier Jean Charest makes major missteps by controversially suggesting Québec could be partitioned in the aftermath of a separatist referendum victory, leaving his campaign team to correct the gaffe with the rushing through of a statement issued retracting comments in which he flaunted the spectre of partition, a provincial hot button issue, in the wake of a Oui vote in the next référendum.

After stating Québec could be carved up into separate territorial districts after a successful référendum on Souveraineté-Partenariat, with his "I don't believe Québec would be indivisible" quote, he later states his comments were in English which may have led to "confusion" though he was and perhaps still is fluently bilingual, this massive mistake came from Charest's explaination of why, as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1996, he stated Cree and Inuit aboriginal peoples should also have the right to secession from the new state (or perhaps now the Nation of Québec would be more proper), to which now he backpedals from saying its territory can't be partitioned, "a slip of the tongue" being basically blamed on the besieged actions of the former top level Mulroney Tory cabinet minister and current Premier of their Province and all any of us can think is same old politics of the status quo.

He simply puts out that a Liberal vote on the 26th of March will avoid the issue, but really he knows as a staunch federalist that it will just intensify the situation moreso, dividing the body politic with his irresponsible declarations internally, the ideal of nationalism begins to split between his two opposition leaders André Boisclair and Mario Dumont, creating a ethnonationalist and civionationalist dichotomy (so it could be more understood by the international community), allowing the Action Démocratique du Québec and Parti Québécois to split the raging nationalism of the region, creating a third tier on to the original Liberal Quiet Revolution under Jean Lesage and its succeeding PQ Beau Risque under René Lévesque, already running a fear campaign a la Mulroney with the earlier talk of suggested loss of federal transfer payments, one must conclude that because of his very negative term in office, that he is angling for best he can get and that would be a minority government with either the PQ or ADQ (who both recently deflected controversial remarks and booted out their candidates in respective districts) forming the remainder of the coalition.

There hasn't been since 1878 a minority there, as the Québec general election of 1878 brought in Liberal Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière over Conservative Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, this was after Joly de Lotbinière was made Premier after Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville had resigned or deposed by Lieutenant Governor Luc Letellier de Saint-Just, as Letellier de Saint-Just refused to approve railway legislation that had been passed by the bicamerial legislature (perhaps due to connection with Macdonald's Pacific scandal and its favouritism towards Canadian Pacific Railway), Joly de Lotbinière didn't win outright with the Conservatives winning 32 plus two Independent seats to the Liberals own 31, yet four Conservatives supported him to allow him the formation of a minority government but only to eventually have the Upper House force him to resign undemocratically and allow Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau to then take office.

Add to this nationalist dictatorial democratic deficit, the Assemblée Législative du Québec or its Legislative Assembly would later pass a law abolishing the Conseil Législatif du Québec or its Legislative Council, but the latter would not agree to its own demise, which finally would occur in 1968 when the Assemblée Nationale du Québec or National Assembly was created as consequence of the Union Nationale legislation and create its current unicameral legislature.