Landry Steps Down

After leading the Parti Québécois since 2001, Bernard Landry is stepping down as it's leader after getting a paltry 76.2 (paltry? say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? -Ed.) per cent of the vote at the PQ leadership convention on Saturday. The news stunned the assembled sovereignty advocates who shouted “non! non! non! (Too bad they weren’t shouting that in ’95 –Ed.)

As a Liberal ANYTHING that upsets the stability of the Parti Québécois is a good thing, but the problem is Gilles Duceppe is a great leader, and he seems to be the odds on favorite to take the job if he wants it. I think he’s the most dangerous bloc/pq member since Lucien Bouchard. I’ve said on several occasions that if he were the leader of a federalist party I’d vote for him in a second. This decision, while it seems to be making the Québécois forces sad now, may prove to provide them with their ultimate goal of a separate Quebec, and a Canada left in ruins.