Don Macpherson: Quebec voters just won't stay bought

“An honest politician,” a notoriously corrupt 19th-century American politician named Simon Cameron is supposed to have said, “is one who, when he is bought, stays bought.”
Nobody has ever applied that standard to voters, however. And politically, that’s the trouble for the Couillard government with its billion-dollar bid to buy votes legally with public funds in this week’s budget update: history suggests that when a Quebec government gives voters a bribe with