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Duceppe paid staff with tax dollars: Report (1)

Quebec separatist Gilles Duceppe paid one of his top political operatives with taxpayer dollars for at least seven years, a Montreal newspaper reports. Gilbert Gardner, hired as the general director of the Bloc Quebecois in 2004, worked out of the … Continue reading

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Duceppe hands Harper fresh anti-coalition ammunition

In the two years since the 2008 parliamentary crisis, most Canadians have come to think of Gilles Duceppe as the disquieting but silent partner of the failed Liberal-NDP coalition bid. It seems he was a lot more than that. In … Continue reading

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Is the Bloc good for Canada?

Gilles Duceppe is an odd sort of fixture on the federal political scene. The Bloc Québécois leader remains a separatist, of course, and thus capable of arousing outrage, as he did when he recently praised sovereigntists as “resisters,” borrowing a … Continue reading

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Bloc cries foul over Conservative bid to expand Commons

The Bloc Québécois is howling over Conservative legislation introduced today that will add 30 new MPs to the House of Commons, diluting the power of Quebec on Parliament Hill. A rowdy Question Period before a one-week Easter Break began with … Continue reading

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