In response to my friend Michel Houle (“A union between the PQ and QS on the horizon?”, May 10), I would remind him that this situation results from QS’s refusal of the convergence project that its negotiator had nevertheless endorsed.
We are both militants in Transition Québec, a progressive separatist municipal party in Quebec, while being militants respectively of the PQ and QS on the Quebec scene and for the Bloc on the federal scene. The only anomaly in this finding, in my opinion, is the inability of social democracy and the Quebec left to speak with one voice to put Quebec back on the path to independence. This also requires the openness necessary to welcome the separatists who lodge with the federalist parties, particularly at the CAQ, now that the liberal threat has disappeared…
In a word, it is a gathering of independence forces that we need. The PQ having got rid of its hesitations to present a clear and distinct project of the necessary independence, only the PQ can be its bearer since nearly 50% of QS sympathizers are federalists, particularly in the Montreal region. For that, we have to spit in our hands, as Mr. Parizeau would have said. The challenge: “A country of our own” is worth the effort.
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