Paul Wells: The hockey sweater - These days you win a Quebec election by not being from Montreal
In April 1995, when he was the freshly-elected premier of Quebec, Jacques Parizeau showed up at a game between the Montreal Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques. His wife, Lisette Lapointe, was wearing a Nordiques jersey.
Most important, Parizeau knew his chances in the referendum and in any future election would be improved if he didn’t seem to be just another Montreal intellectual. He’d been born in the leafy Montreal enclave of Outremont to a bourgeois family of long standing. The only Canadian schools he attended were in Montreal. He ran in Montreal twice unsuccessfully before running a stone’s throw east of the city in suburban L’Assomption — coincidentally, François Legault’s riding today.
Legault’s stance is essentially: Rouyn needs this factory and the people there can judge for themselves whether it’s safe. I grew up in a city not all that different from Rouyn, and I suspect it’s a popular stance. Legault spent the last year defending a road-and-transit tunnel under the St. Lawrence River between Quebec City and Lévis. In the face of initial outrage at the cost , he whittled the project down to a $. This “third link” is seen in Montreal as utter folly. Even two successive mayors of Quebec City have said they don’t like it. But Legault swept the region on Monday.
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