Thursday, March 06, 2008

Independence by other means than referendum: PQ

Don't trust the PQ on this issue, they *will* fuck you over on it.

Pauline Marois is betting her young leadership of the Parti Québécois on her ability to push the province closer to independence without resorting to a referendum.

A bellicose Marois announced Wednesday she will ask PQ members to free the party from a commitment to hold a referendum soon after an election win.

A PQ government would instead adopt a policy of "national governance" to gradually free the province from Ottawa's grip.

"I am freeing myself from shackles in proposing … that we suspend the obligation to hold a referendum in the first part of a mandate," Marois told reporters in Montreal.


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