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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
'the people' of Quebec are no more homogenous then the people of Alberta. Very few who may have voted conservative would be swayed by either issue.
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I think the people of Alberta are far more homogenous than anywhere else in the country. I wager that on October 14th that no province will be as homogenous as Alberta. So I'll agree that Quebec is less.
But I must disagree as whether they would be swayed. The voters in Quebec are still quite upset at the Liberals over the sponsorship scandal - but not for the same reason Albertans or Ontarians are... it was Quebec politicians that made out like bandits and gave Quebec a bad name. Again. So they parked their protest vote with the Conservatives even though they didn't agree 100% with their platform. So long as they didn't rock the boat too much, Quebec was more than happy to use the Conservative party to teach the Liberals a lesson while not giving more power to the Bloc. However, when issues like cutting funding to artists and throwing 14 year olds in jail those non-Conservative Conservative votes dry up.