Parti Québécois scrambles to explain support for aboriginal leader who favours partition – Montreal Gazette
November 22, 2015
SHERBROOKE — Parti Québécois leader Pierre Karl Péladeau has refused to take a position on whether the province could be carved up by minority groups in the event of sovereignty.
One day after First Nations leader Ghislain Picard opened the pandora’s box of partition by saying he would consider borders “on the table,” in the event of separatism, Péladeau did not do what PQ leader’s usually do and defend Quebec’s existing borders tooth-and-nail.
Even Liberal premiers have maintained Quebec cannot be divided, quashing the notion a region like Montreal could set itself up as a city state in the event of sovereignty.
“People will have arguments, people will have requests, but this is open for dialogue,” Péladeau told reporters at a news conference wrapping up a two-day meeting of the PQ’s national council.
