Don Macpherson: Saving the Parti Québécois from itself

Not since “the night of the long knives” in the 1981 constitutional negotiations, when an alliance between René Lévesque and other premiers broke down, have Quebec sovereignists felt so betrayed. Only this time, they feel betrayed by other sovereignists.
For the past week, Péquistes and sympathetic commentators have been fulminating against the supposed treachery of Québec solidaire at its policy convention last weekend in rejecting a tentative agreement a