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My next full-scale TL will be Canadian, and I have two ideas that I'm currently contemplating. Any help with fleshing them out would be appreciated.

Québec sans Lévesque: René Lévesque resigns as premier in 1977 after fatally injuring Edgar Trottier with his limo. IOTL only a heartfelt plea from Robert Cliche prevented his resignation. With the Charte and the campaign finance laws not yet formed, the pur et dur wing led by Parizeau and Laurin will clash with the social democrats, soft indépendatistes such as Michel Carpentier, Robert Burns and Claude Morin. Of course the closet Unionists like Pierre-Marc Johnson can't be discounted either, but they cannot make a power grab then or later because their economic ideology (neoliberal à la Bouchard) and agnosticism on the question nationale would cause major problems. I'd say Parizeau is the successor with a Cabinet reconfiguration to support the purs et durs in the vital portfolios, but keeping the linguistically moderate Gerald Godin at Communautés Culturelles. The right-wingers (Parizeau despises Johnson personally and politically, as seen in his overthrow in '87) would get kicked out of Cabinet. Lévesque was the one who gave a direct order to Laurin to excise some extremely tough measures from the Charte, including a direct challenge to the federal Charter IOTL, but Parizeau would let that stand. This causes major problems with the Anglo and Allophone communities, who could work reasonably well with Lévesque IOTL because he constantly warned against alienating them and gagged anyone who tried to derail that policy.

Tons de bleu (Shades of Blue): Daniel Johnson survives his October '68 heart attack and completes the realignment of the Unionists as agnostic/soft indépendantistes on the national question and economically (later neoliberal) and socially conservative. The PQ becomes the party of the left, social democratic and socially progressive as per OTL. The PLQ is squeezed out and becomes an Anglophone third party, eventually merging with the UN but with an unspoken agreement to not rock the boat too often on the "national question".
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