"Legault does not dislike being compared to one of the province’s most controversial premiers, the authoritarian and hot-tempered Maurice Duplessis. Indeed, Duplessis’s governments also were nationalist, economic, and close to the people. He remained in power 15 consecutive years…"

#AndréPratte : Is François Legault unbeatable?

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andre-pratte-is-francois-legault-unbeatable

#polqc #FrançoisLegault #MauriceDuplessis
#NationalPost

2. #MauriceDuplessis was a great premier, and Quebeckers should be proud of his government.

#polqc

"French-Canadians owe their cultural survival to the Roman Catholic Church, and owe their achievement of approximate economic equality with English-Canadians to Duplessis [...]. No French-Canadian historians have ever articulated that, and that is what rankles with them."

Conrad Black: The hard truth that Quebec's intelligentsia never admit
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-hard-truth-that-quebecs-intelligentsia-never-admit

#MauriceDuplessis #qcpol
#ConradBlack #NationalPost