Informed that almost 250,000 people signed an online petition calling for his resignation, Quebec Premier Jean Charest was characteristically Zen.“Didn’t Rick Mercer get 600,000 names for [Treasury Board president] Stockwell Day to change his name to Doris?” Charest asked recently, recalling the CBC funnyman’s stunt when Day, then head of the Canadian Alliance political party, […]
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