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September 9, 2012

The PQ Has Won Office But Lost Ground

Jeffrey Simpson, Globe and Mail

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Want to know how to move politically forward while going backward? Ask the Parti Québécois. The PQ managed that unlikely feat this week. It got a smaller share of the popular vote than in two elections it lost in the past decade, yet still managed to win a minority.

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