Alternative Quebec Premiers

For resident Canucks/Canuckophiles, the challenge is to make one or more of these QC politicos Premier. Claude Ryan (shudders), Gerald Tremblay (shrugs), and Dr Camille Laurin (leaves for Toronto). In OTL Tremblay is Mayor of Montreal, now poised for a third term, and was Minister of Industry from 1989-93. Claude Ryan, the publisher of then-influential Le Devoir, became Liberal leader in 1978, and lost the 1981 election to Levesque in a Dewey-like manner. In Bourassa III-IV Cabinet, he became the minister responsible for the language portfolio, involved in the notwithstanding clause decision. Retired in '94 and died a few years later. Dr Laurin is infamous in Quebec and Eastern Canada, the architect of loi 101 and all the fireworks since. Political affiliations: Ryan is a Bourassa Liberal, centre-left and nationalistic. Tremblay, centre-right, Laurin, left period. Ardent independatiste. Good refs: MacDonald's book on Bourassa (2nd ed) and Graham Fraser on Levesque/PQ (only till 1984).
 
I dunno, I'd have to do a little more research on these people before I even start making a story of how they'd manage to pull off the Premiership of Quebec...
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Woof...this is gonna be hard...let me think about it...I'll have to start digging through books...as anyone who's heard me open my big dumb mouth would testify, if it doesn't have Canadian wheels, tracks, or a gun, I'm kind of out of the loop.

But I've got The Peoples of Canada: A Post-Confederation History and And Economic History of Canada so I might find something. Let me dig for awhile.

I'd probably give Mann or Doctor What a better chance at beating me, though.
 
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