Quebec independence put on back burner
Posted Aug 21, 2011 04:21:42 AM.
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MONTREAL — A prominent Quebec politician says the recent turmoil involving the Parti Quebecois offers further proof that the debate over independence should be put on the back burner.
Francois Legault, a former P-Q cabinet minister, now heads a new right-of-centre political movement in the province. Legault told a youth conference in Montreal Saturday that the Quebec independence movement just isn’t as popular as it once was.
A few days earlier a group of sovereigntists a public manifesto slamming the Parti Quebecois as a spent force in the fight for independence. The group, composed of former members of both the PQ and the Bloc Quebecois, is scheduled to hold a meeting in Montreal on Sunday.
Legault’s movement, called the Coalition for Quebec’s Future, promises to focus on economic and social reforms and shelve the debate over sovereignty for at least a decade.
