20 June 2015

William Johnson: A visionary, Jacques Parizeau was ready to pay any price | National Post

William Johnson: A visionary, Jacques Parizeau was ready to pay any price | National Post



In 2004, Parizeau came out publicly for “élections référendaires” in which the PQ ran on a platform of declaring independence if it won the merest majority of seats. “The proposed strategy has the immense advantage of freeing Quebec from the corridor where Ottawa wanted to park us. The Clarity Act becomes meaningless. It is the election which grants the mandate [for independence].”

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