Don Macpherson: Leitão is right about divisiveness in Quebec politics

It’s easy to dismiss Finance Minister Carlos Leitão’s attack this week on the “ethnic-based” nationalism of the Coalition Avenir Québec party as a sign of desperation on the part of a Liberal government threatened with defeat in this year’s election.
When Leitão gave up a comfortable living as a respected economist to enter active politics four years ago, he said it was to oppose the divisiveness represented by the former Parti Québ&eacut