Macpherson: Quebec's Seinfeld election campaign

“The dwarf was well treated, and he was paid.”
That’s an actual quote from the campaign for the Oct. 1 Quebec general election, from a spokesman for the party that was most likely to form the next government. And this was after Labour Day, when the campaign was supposed to get serious.
The spokesman for the Coalition Avenir Québec party was attempting, as partisans do, to defend the indefensible. In this case, it was the CAQ candidacy of Stéphane Laroche, who was