Critical election issue: time off work

Do you really want these people voting in this election?
photo by gLangille via Flickr

It wouldn’t be an election in 2012 without satirical Twitter accounts, now, would it? Today we get the comedy ball rolling with the man the Globe and Mail called “Quebec’s Eliot Ness,” CAQ candidate Jacques Duchesneau.

On the CAQ front, Duchesneau’s boss (and don’t you forget it!) said earlier today that he would vote no on secession if another referendum were held. He also noted that, if he takes the big seat in the Assemblée Nationale, the CAQ would give parents of children aged five and under six paid days of leave from work each year, The Gazette’s Max Harrold says.

You hear that?! You’d better start making babies if you want more bender-recovery days! Also, do you get six days for every kid?

Legault has also been fending off attacks from PQ boss Pauline Marois, who’s all, “you changed, bro,” but he has a friend in Robert Libman, the guy whose Equality party sorta, kinda challenged the Liberals in 1989’s provincial election. The former Côte St-Luc mayor would like anglos to give the CAQ a chance and the nationalist fear-mongering Liberals a break.

What about the students, though — the group that ostensibly spurred this election? The Gazette’s Christopher Curtis reports that their age of apathy — roughly 64 per cent of that ever-so-elusive 18–24 demographic failed to vote in the 2008 provincial election — may be over and that the tuition conflict will push many more to the polls next month. Then again, maybe #manifencours fatigue has set in. Though only a few student association general assemblies have been held, turnout has been low, suggesting that the movement may be tapering out. That, or they’re still drunk.