Originally Posted by RawAlex

This is a minefield, but I will walk into it anyway.

Tonight's deal sort of shows a couple of important things. The Quebec people didn't really want more Charest, but the choice of the PQ (and especially Boisclair) really turned many people off (especially in the regions where the PQ is strong). The choice remaining is the unknown, Mario Dumont, who sort of ends up winning a bunch of seats by default.

The other part is it brings another minority government into the Canadian scene, and starts to show a real splitting of public opinion that is likely not to go away. There is a very strong potential that on both a provincial and federal level, we will be looking at minority governments for a long time to come.