Although there are only three of them and they are left almost penniless, the elected members of the PQ are the only ones who have made it a double effort in this parliamentary return to the National Assembly.
The PQ and their leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon will have succeeded in freeing Quebec from this archaic obligation represented by the Oath to the King. They stood tall and did what too many chosen ones before them should have done long ago.
In an interview with Benoît Dutrizac on Thursday on QUB radio, former PQ minister and columnist Joseph Facal admitted that instead of perjury and taking an absurd oath, elected sovereignists should have fought this battle long ago.
Sovereignty was the priority at the time, but one thing by no means ruled out the other.
Mr. Facal rightly hailed the lesson in history and politics that elected PQ officials had just taught many Quebecers.
The PQ members certainly acted in this way to gain visibility, but above all we felt that they acted out of conviction. It feels good.
On PQ territory
Then this fall, the PQ deputies aroused a lot of sympathy with this stunt, but also with the appearance of the chairman in the election campaign. So much so that they are encouraging the CAQ to occupy their preferred terrain where defending the French is a real concern.
Prime Minister François Legault effectively confused all analysts by making defending French his priority in his inaugural speech on Wednesday. Thus he realized that his Law 96 was not doing enough to slow and prevent the decline of French.
Well with that being said, the CAQ is doomed to act, Jean-François Lisée underscored still this week on QUB radio. And this is where it could hurt for Mr. Legault and his most versatile troops.
