Don Macpherson: A victory for PQ language hawks, not Lisée

Last weekend’s Parti Québécois convention was a triumph for Jean-François Lisée. Or at least that was the impression created by the near-record 92.8-per-cent confidence vote the PQ leader received.
Actually, Lisée was weakened by that vote, not strengthened.
Because, in order to get it, he made a major concession to an especially anglophobic minority among the convention delegates.
And that concession, and Lisée’s weakness in making it, may b