{"id":140,"date":"2007-10-08T03:03:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T07:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=140"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:26:50","slug":"election-signs-votez-bleu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/10\/08\/election-signs-votez-bleu\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Signs: Votez bleu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christopherdewolf\/271701309\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/86\/271701309_3ec9277a9b.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Vous voyez rouge? Votez bleu!<\/i> It was a catchy PQ electoral slogan that tried to capitalize on Jean Charest&#8217;s profound unpopularity in late 2005, when a provincial by-election was held in Outremont. Given the timing of the election &#8212; just after Gomery&#8217;s report on the sponsorship program was released &#8212; I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if the slogan was also meant to equate the dirty dealings of the federal Liberals with the PLQ. <\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s all history: the PQ&#8217;s candidate, Farouk Karim, lost to the Liberals&#8217; Raymond Bachand, who was promptly shuffled into cabinet. What I remember most about this election was the distinctive diamond shape of Karim&#8217;s sign. They were eye-catching but I have to say they didn&#8217;t make for very good toboggans when, after the election, my friends and I took them down and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanphoto.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/26\/politicians-slippery-in-more-ways-than-one\/\">used them to slide down Mount Royal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo taken on Park Avenue during the 2005 Outremont provincial by-election.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vous voyez rouge? Votez bleu! 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