He was DUI, driving his official limo in 1977 without his required glasses, and killed a homeless man, Edgar Trottier. Only Judge Robert Cliche (one of Levesque's closest confidants) persuaded Levesque not to resign the Premiership and leave politics. WI Levesque resigned for, in effect, involuntary manslaughter?
Would Jacques Parizeau (Finance Minister) Robert Burns (House Leader) or Camille Laurin (then Minister of Education) become Premier and PQ leader? Effects on QC politics? Who wins the next couple of elections? Is there a referendum?
Some of my ideas:
None are particularly close to Levesque at this time, even before the Beau Risque coup. Parizeau is of course the leader of the hardliners and nearly directly opposed Levesque on the floor of a PQ convention on the central plank of sovereignty-association. Burns is a social democrat who's a "regular" on independence. Laurin, is well, Laurin.