RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:my last post was for pinot the separatistParizeau and "ethnic money", landry, levesque (who personally mocked jewish business owners) frau marois and her values charter...these are not 1950's characters...not to mention dutrizac, foglia, and the many pq supporting media friends who almost daily are up to these nonsensical and frankly old stereotypes. "The suspension of belief this requires is not possible without some quite heroic historical revisionism. It isn’t only a few cranks among the grassroots, after all, who have nurtured the party’s reputation for chauvinism. It is its leaders. If it is rich to see Parizeau transformed into a beacon of liberalism, he of the notorious “money and the ethnic vote” outburst (watch the clip, and hear the roar of the crowd in response), it is no less curious to see it said of the others. Landry, who now says he disagrees with the ban, was just lately defending it: in any case, is this the same Bernard Landry who was heard abusing a Mexican-born hotel clerk (“it’s because of people like you that we lost”) the night of the 1995 referendum? Bouchard may have finally broken with the party over the Yves Michaud affair (“I have no desire to engage in any kind of discussion about the Holocaust and the vote of ethnic and cultural communities”), but was it not the same Bouchard who declared that “Canada was not a real country” not real, because not based on the same ethnocultural vision as his own? As for the sainted Levesque surely not the same Levesque who inveighed darkly against “Westmount Rhodesians,” who accused Pierre Elliott Trudeau of following “the Anglo-Saxon part of his heritage”? But, well, Parizeau was probably drunk, and Landry was frustrated, and Bouchard was speaking off the cuff, and that wasn’t the real Lvesque . . . Quite so. When they were on their best behaviour, shaved and sober and conscious of appearances, all were capable of sustaining the PQ’s preferred self-image as a liberal, inclusive movement dedicated to creating a harmonious multi-ethnic state that just happened to want to break up the most successful modern example of it. At times, PQ leaders could sound positively Trudeauiste in their devotion to a civic, non-ethnic nationalism. A Quebecer was anyone who wanted to be, was the line. Until those unguarded moments, when the mask slipped".