your Liberal leadership update

The French-language [debate] was supposed to be an opportunity for candidates to woo Quebecers, but it quickly turned into a marathon of mangled syntax and butchered grammar.  Ten leadership hopefuls braved the debate, though only a handful could make their pitches in the first language of the province and of one-quarter of Canadians.

 

The result was at times comical, often confusing, and even left TV translators tongue-tied as they sometimes opted to remain silent rather than try to guess what the candidates meant.

 

Oh, and Ignatief promised to reopen the constitution so Quebec could be recognized as a country within a country.  Nice.