Saturday 7 May 2011

On the Bloc Quebecois

   Led by Gilles Duceppe, the Bloc Quebecois leader, was in charge of this separatist movement that is planning to have the province of Quebec become independent, however he shortly quit after the election because him and  his party failed terribly; losing almost all their seats.
 Pre-election, the Bloc had 49 seats, and fell down to an incredible 4. After many years, the Bloc failed to gain independence for Quebec, and I assume the people just got tired of their constant tantrums calling on for separation. Almost all their seats were taken over by the NDP, which steamrolled their party, having Quebec become practically an all NDP province.
The Bloc Quebecois in fact, can never win government, because they run in Quebec only which has 75 ridings in total, and that is not enough to form any government. Their job really is, to complain and draw attention to Quebec. However, none the less, I am glad their nationalist zeal will hopefully be stomped out by their defeat.

8 comments:

  1. So are they finally going to stop trying to break away? It's getting quite annoying.

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  2. There's a new head now but I'm pretty much sure they will disappear soon :S

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  3. Might seriously effect on the party's power that decrease in seats... I guess bad decisions have their consecuences

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  4. really interesting stuff. following

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  5. Oh, huh. I had no idea that there was a group who wanted Quebec to separate.

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  6. Had some Canadian friends who were always making fun of these guys. They sure had a big fall

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  7. My bad they had 47 seats actually.

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