Chantal Hebert, John Ivison and others have reported that the NDP and the Bloc both want to defeat Martin Cauchon and Justin Trudeau so that neither one emerges as Liberal leader. Apparently the BQ is helping the NDP in Outremont, and the NDP is helping the Bloc in Papineau.
Seems to me that Bloc and NDP voters in those ridings would figure this out without any instructions from any hierarchy.
Quite right, Wilf - speaking for yours truly, anyway, who has voted both Bloc (Amir Khadir and later, to my shame and regret, Jacques Léonard) and NDP (Tom Mulcair) - we will do our best to keep Cauchon out. That may be a challenge. But "strategic" voting of this kind is pretty endemic in Québec.
Unionist, aren't you voting BQ in this election as a protest againt Mulcair's comments about Libby Davies last year?
As for Cauchon, as an LGBT person I have some respect for him as the Justice Minister who spoke out in favour of gay marriage, so to me he's better than your average Liberal. Having him elected wouldn't be the worst thing. It's the anti-gay ones we most need to keep out.