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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
So he was appointed to represent the people of Quebec?
The same people who wouldn't elect him to represent them?
If that is OK, then this this whole issue is much ado about nothing!
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Different things. No he didn't win the riding but that doesn't mean the province shouldn't be represented in some manner within the government. This was the method The Tories chose. A method that has been used before and a method that did garner a good amount of support from Quebec. Quenecers weren't dissatisfied with that arrangement at all even if they didn't elect him to be a sitting MP and representing them riding level interests.
But really it ultimately comes down to optics. This is a coalition that the media, and I think general public, is not being very supportive of. They haven't even taken power and there is public talk of handing out Senate seats to the leader of another party that happens to be a close friend to Dion.