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Re: Marois will have to be deft to press agenda in minority, Opinion Sept. 6

Pauline Marois might just have enough room to navigate the narrow straits of her slim majority, wrote Professor Pierre Martin. It should not be necessary to warn the Stars editors and a political science professor to be careful with the word majority in most Canadian elections.

In fact, Marois Parti Quebecois won a slim plurality of seats, 54 to 50, over the Liberals with a very small plurality of votes cast, about 31.93 per cent to 31.20 per cent. Lets get used to using this word.

After the by-elections Thursday, the Ontario Liberals are left with a plurality. Well, that will go with the major minority they won in Oct., 2011 with a small plurality of the votes cast, 37.6 per cent to the 35.4 per cent gained by the Conservatives.

Jim Milne, Haliburton

The English in Quebec and Ottawa long ago left the toxic French atmosphere after the Liberals abandoned them to their fates of being the maudit anglais. These English then abandoned the Liberal Party to its fate.

You would think Canada would have come up with a comprehensive plan to deal with separation after the vote but all we have is the Clarity Act that Mme. Marois will laughingly chuck into the garbage.

All Pierre Trudeau really achieved was a failed little country situated in the bosom of a successful big country. Quebec, like Russia, is now perilously just another mafia-run economy.

Bryan Charlebois, Toronto

Re: Quebec shooting is a dark day for democracy, Editorial Sept. 6

See the article here:
Parsing Parti Quebecois win