Canada: Politics: Conservative Party grows in voter strength in Quebec

Blogger Laurent puts us on course regarding astounding developments in politics in la belle province. In Le blog de polyscopique, a marvellous bilingual good-looking blog, near-daily, he tells us:

Two new polls, each with a large sample (about 2,000) of Quebecers, confirms the rise of the Conservative Party in Québec. According to an Ipsos-Reid poll, the Conservatives are at 25 percent in Québec compared with 48 percent for the Bloc and 13 percent for the Liberal Party. A Decima poll puts the Conservatives at 28 percent in Québec while the Bloc is at 45 percent and the Liberals at 14 percent. According to the same poll, 12 percent of sovereignists support the Conservatives whereas 80 percent support the Bloc. Among Québec federalists, 41 percent opt for the Conservative Party whereas 28 percent choose the Liberals, 13 percent the NDP and 9 percent the Bloc. Publié par Laurent

Merci! à vous, Laurent.

For a great French-only blog, go to Jonathan Hamel's La sphère des idées de J. H.. In the last week, JH has documented for those of us who don't read the French press or watch French TV a host of declarations of support and other developments that seem to promise some seats going to the Tories ("Conservateurs") and not the separtists ("Bloquistes"), while the Liberals are literally in free-fall.

Merci! à vous, Jonathan.

Truly historic times for Québec, and for all Canada. - Politicarp