Paul Wells: Amidst fresh disarray within the party, it’s worth recalling the former leader’s advice: ‘This is no way to run a federation.’
Tag Archives: Lucien Bouchard
Le Devoir’s shaky memory
Wells: Bouchard cut spending far more drastically than Couillard, so Le Devoir has forgotten he ever existed
Paul Wells in Conversation: Chantal Hebert
Chantal Hébert’s new book gets Lucien Bouchard to spill the beans on the 1995 Quebec referendum
Exclusive: Stephen Harper’s legal challenge to Quebec secession
The PM’s position is nearly identical to Jean Chrétien and Stéphane Dion, writes Paul Wells
The Commons: Duly elected to carry on unapologetically
Jason Kenney declines several invitations to say sorry
Behind the scenes of the CAQ
Once a threat to the provincial Liberals, the six-month-old Quebec party has stumbled badly
Bouchard shakes it up, again
The former PQ leader comes out of isolation to trash his old party
Signs of life for Michael Ignatieff
Prorogation allowed Ignatieff to see through the fog of his foibles and find his vision
Where was Lucien when it mattered?
It’s almost as if he’d never been in charge.
User pay: how lucid
Lucien Bouchard, whose government maintained a cap on tuitions at Quebec universities, urges Jean Charest, whose government has been increasing tuition fees at a timid rate of $50 per semester, to blow the doors off and let tuition rates rise to the national (that is, Canadian) average. I am hunkering down while the CFS loads its muskets. Many years ago I spent weeks here writing arguments that closely resemble Bouchard’s. The archives of this blog being a bit of a fragile flower, you’ll just have to take my word for it.