Canadian unity finds a reluctant (and maybe) savior.(Jean Charest tempted to switch to Liberal Party)(Brief Article)

The Economist (US) | March 14, 1998 | Copyright

MONTREAL

Canada has been through two separatist referendums in Quebec, nearly losing the second. If it is to avoid a third, it needs the right man to lead the fight for unity. But will he?

TO MANY Canadians, Jean Charest has always been the right man in the wrong party. He comes from Quebec, a province that is determinedly Liberal when it is not in the hands of separatists. His own personal views are more liberal than conservative. Yet he has been a lifelong Conservative. In 1986, at the age of 27, he became a minister in a Conservative federal cabinet. He has ...

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