Let's say he isn't kidnapped, or that the CF finds him. What wasn't known was that at the time, the SQ was investigating him for ties to organized crime. During the 1970 Liberal leadership race, Paul Desrochers (Bourassa's Rove) cut off Laporte's cash flow from major donors, so he was forced to seek alternative sources of funding. Wiretaps recorded a Laporte lieutenant asking for cash from local Mafia dons, and also recorded the mob's wish that Laporte would become Justice Minister so as to relent the war on organized crime. Jean-Jacques Saulnier, the Montreal police chief (and brother of Drapeau's deputy Lucien Saulnier), was also bought and paid for by the Mob.
At the time of his death, Jerome Choquette (AG) had been brought into the loop and they were close to the next step of indictment. If this is publicly revealed, and Levesque plays his cards right, the Liberals will be vapourized come the next election, and you might get a Premier Levesque earlier than OTL. Perhaps the Unionists revive as the party of the mainstream federalist right.
*This all comes from the McKennas' authorized biography of Jean Drapeau.
At the time of his death, Jerome Choquette (AG) had been brought into the loop and they were close to the next step of indictment. If this is publicly revealed, and Levesque plays his cards right, the Liberals will be vapourized come the next election, and you might get a Premier Levesque earlier than OTL. Perhaps the Unionists revive as the party of the mainstream federalist right.
*This all comes from the McKennas' authorized biography of Jean Drapeau.