Homosexual is leading candidate to head Parti Quebecois

The frontrunner to be the next leader of the Parti Quebecois and, very likely, the next prime minister of Quebec is André Boisclair, who is an open homosexual as well as a former (or present?) user of marijuana and cocaine.

The correspondent who sent the item writes:

This is why I like living in Quebec.

You can think of Andre Boisclair as being the Quebec version of Andrew Sullivan: conservative on economics, ultra-liberal on culture war issues and completely unelectable in even the bluest of the blue states. Here, he’s going to be the next premier of Quebec. At this point there isn’t even a mathematical chance he’ll lose either the leadership race in November or the general election in 2007.

I’m only sending the Gazette’s piece because it’s in English. It’s not at all representative of the way the French press is covering the guy.

He’s gay and it’s a complete non-issue. He’s a pothead and that’s a complete non-issue. He’s a coke freak and got called on the carpet for his legendary debauchery six years ago when he first became a cabinet minister and because of that he’s got to put up with a bit of front page finger-wagging. But it is not going to break his campaign and not even his opponents are suggesting it should.

I can just imagine his government. The National Assembly pulls seven consecutive all-nighters and passes a record 43,000 pages of legislation. Unfortunately, the last 10,000 are written in crayon and completely illegible. They then descend into paranoid psychosis and declare war on Alberta. On the plus side, the Assembly chamber is redone in a very tasteful lavender and salmon-pink velour scheme…

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 20, 2005 04:46 PM | Send