August 19, 2011
The Rundown's political roundup moves swiftly from the obvious to the bizarre.
Liberal Leader Bob Rae knows the obvious: his party has a challenge to recapture the interests of Quebec,once a bastion of Liberal support.
The bizarre? Someone hacked the website of the newspaper Le Devoir to post a story saying Quebec Premier Jean Charestwas dead. Hours later, a joking Charest proved the story to be false. That incident came days after former federal Conservative cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon said the politician who has most impressed him isn't Prime Minister Stephen Harper but Charest.
Elsewhere, the separatist movement continues to scuffle. The Bloc Quebecois faces a delay in selecting its new leader, to replace the departed Gilles Duceppe, who himself walked away from a job at the CBC after a disagreement on terms. And a group of Quebec sovereigntists has declared the Parti Quebecois all used up.
Federally, the NDP will not have its leader, Jack Layton, on hand for its first caucus meeting after the summer recess. Layton is taking a leave to get treatment for a second bout of cancer.
The party also alleged this week that the legacy fund for the G8 summit in 2010 was run out of the constituency office of cabinet minister Tony Clement, the MP for that area. The NDP says that allowed the government to avoid the scrutiny of the auditor general.
The Rundown's political roundup moves swiftly from the obvious to the bizarre.
Liberal Leader Bob Rae knows the obvious: his party has a challenge to recapture the interests of Quebec,once a bastion of Liberal support.
The bizarre? Someone hacked the website of the newspaper Le Devoir to post a story saying Quebec Premier Jean Charestwas dead. Hours later, a joking Charest proved the story to be false. That incident came days after former federal Conservative cabinet minister Lawrence Cannon said the politician who has most impressed him isn't Prime Minister Stephen Harper but Charest.
Elsewhere, the separatist movement continues to scuffle. The Bloc Quebecois faces a delay in selecting its new leader, to replace the departed Gilles Duceppe, who himself walked away from a job at the CBC after a disagreement on terms. And a group of Quebec sovereigntists has declared the Parti Quebecois all used up.
Federally, the NDP will not have its leader, Jack Layton, on hand for its first caucus meeting after the summer recess. Layton is taking a leave to get treatment for a second bout of cancer.
The party also alleged this week that the legacy fund for the G8 summit in 2010 was run out of the constituency office of cabinet minister Tony Clement, the MP for that area. The NDP says that allowed the government to avoid the scrutiny of the auditor general.
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