Pierre Karl Péladeau scion of the Quebecor millions has agreed to run in Saint-Jérȏme riding for the Parti Québécois in the April election. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois has made the announcement just months after appointing Péladeau head of Hydro-Quebec. The choice of Saint-Jérȏme riding will allow the candidate to get in his spring skiing on the local hills along with some campaigning.
The only problem the voters might have is this is the guy who owns Sun Media across Canada and Le Journal de Montréal. He is further to the right of politics than the péquiste are to the left. He represents nothing the party stands for except separatism.
Of course, we anglophones are not supposed to understand Quebec politics. We are told that our analyses of Quebec politics are completely wrong.
Well, here is what we do know. We know that anyone who believes public opinion polls in Quebec should be a good candidate to buy some swamp land north of Baie-Comeau.
We also know that Premier Pauline Marois is starting her campaign by bashing Liberal Leader Philippe Couilard for not being as big a Quebec booster as her. She complains that he does not go along with her bigoted values charter and has never worked to protect Quebecers separatist ambitions. She should look at some of her own party’s candidates before complaining about her opposition.
Pierre Karl Péladeau is a good example. His English-language Sun News media outlets are all big supporters of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Mind you, his Sun newspapers lack proper editing and seem to be written for and read by people with a grade eight education or less. And Péladeau’s highly biased Sun TV network has yet to meet any broad acceptance by Canadians.
But for voters in Saint-Jérȏme, Péladeau’s media are doing nothing to further the tourism required to support that area of the province. As someone who has put together many Laurentian based conferences and conventions, this writer considers Péladeau as poor a booster for Quebec as he is for the rest of Canada.
When writing about this election the other day, we were told that we had no understanding of how Quebecers would react to Justin Trudeau getting involved in the Quebec provincial election. We did not say he would. We merely indicated that we thought it was a good idea. We just feel that the more people making the case for a united Canada, the fewer problems we would have later with self-serving separatists.
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