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A2 i ITHECAZETTE montrealgazette.com TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008 TO INQUIRE OR COMMENT ABOUT HOME DELIVERY, OR TO SUBSCRIBE: Montreal area: 514-987-2400 elsewhere: 1-800-361-8478 readthegthegazette.canwest.COm We guarantee home delivery by 6:30 a.m. weekdays In the greater Montreal area. 1010 Ste. Catherine St. suite 200, Montreal, QC, H3B 5L1 montrcalgazetta.com 514-987-2222 MACPHERSON Charest first to win three in a.

row since Duplessis NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS g70OOO POWERED BY CANWEST NEWS SERVICE CanwasiNBws Service A I Kl NFA This morning: Check out our website for continuing coverage of yesterday's provincial election, fefc DAY, EVERY DAY jhis evening: The Canadiens host the Calgary Flames. your news: Co to montrealgazette.com to send us news tips, photos and video QUEBEC VOTES Check out our website for continuing coverage, photos, multimedia, analysis, opinion, reaction and fallout from yesterday's provincial election won by Jean Charest's Liberals. il I SEE WHAT'S NEW Si WATCH E2JF MULTI-S MEDIA VjpEOS, SLIDESHOWS AND MORE FROM THE GAZETTE'S BLOCCERS A' I --sfip'i CHRISTINNE MUSCHI REUTEW ROBERTO ROCHA Google to CRTC: YouTube's website is more Canadian than Canadian media. Technoc'rte. SHARE a YOU VIEWS ON TODAY'S HOT TOPICS OUR NEW WEBSITE What do you think of the new montrealgazette.

com? Check out our tour, try new features and comment on our stories. We're still working out the bugs, so if you notice something that doesn't work, or something you just don't like, let us know by email: web-feed back thegazette. canwest.com VIDEO: FOCUS ON FASHION SHOOT We take you through a behind-the-scenes look at' a Gazette fashion shoot. ALKRATINA Djmmu Borgir's last Montreal set part of Danzig's tour -was nothing CONTINUED FROM Al Throughout this campaign, the polls had suggested the Liberals were going to win a majority. With some Parti Quebecois and Action democratique supporters already not sure it was worth the trouble of going to the polls, yesterday's chill might have helped some waverers make up their minds to stay home.

But some Liberals might have stayed home, too. The 1.3 million votes Charest's party received yesterday were only slightly more than it received in 2007, which was its lowest total since 1970. And the "ballot-box bonus" that used to give the Liberals a higher vote share than the polls had suggested now appears to be a thing of the past. Just enough Liberals did show up yesterday to make Charest the first Quebec premier to win a third consecutive term since the legendary strongman Maurice Duplessis in 1952. This is only 20 months after Charest also earned the less honourable distinction of becoming the first head of a Quebec government elected since 1970 not to win a second consecutive majority the result of unusually high dissatisfaction with his government throughout its first term.

Instead, he was the first head of a minority government in Quebec since 1878. And were it not for several hundred well-placed votes out of the 4 million cast, he would have been out of power entirely, and out of politics as well. He was lucky to survive politically One of the explanations for Charest's remarkably rapid resurrection is simply that in his second term, he decided to stop bothering people. Under the influence of former advisers to his Liberal predecessor Robert Bourassa, notably that of John Parisella, Charest adopted Bourassa's strategic the economy moderate nationalism and, especially, "social peace," or the avoidance of controversy Charest stopped asking Quebecers to make sacrifices on behalf of the children they weren't having by accepting cuts to public services so mere could be reductions in the income tax they weren't paying. He ended his war on the public debt and high taxes the way former U.S.

senator William Proxmire suggested his country get out of the war in Vietnam: by simply declaring victory and withdrawing. And for this election, he assured campaign-weary voters that he had learned from expert- Premier Jean Charest laughs as he stands with his wife, Michele Dionne, following a campaign stop in Shawinigan last short of an irritation. Words and Music. i i. i rim- f- -1 STEPHANIE MYLES Our hard-serving tennis writer stays on top of warrnuo events VIDEO: OUT TO PASTURE The collapse of the Quebec horseracing industry has left many casualties in its wake.

for next month's Australian Open. Open Court. PQ stronghold of Mercier. Sovereignists impatient for anj 1 other referendum will have to wait at least another four And even during the campaign, Pauline Marois's leadership did not appear to be entirely secure: The ADQ like Icarus of Greek mythology, rose too far too fast," got burned and yesterday, came crashing back to Earth without enough seats or vote share even to be recognized as a party in the Assembly Its very survival now is in doubt, since Mario Dumont, the MONTREALCAZETTE.COM IS PART OF Across the nation: Montreal Gazette, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Windsor Star, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Victoria Times Colonist r0 can WHERE PERSPECTIVES CONNECT ence not to bother them if they entrusted him with a second majority and the usual four-year term that goes with it At least he will not be constantly reminding them, as he did in his first term, that he has a mandate for radical change. For this time, the platform on which he has been elected does not call for the "re-engineering" of the Quebec government, or promise annual billion-dollar income-tax cuts.

Instead, it promises Bourassa-style management. His first task will be to form a new, expanded cabinet in which women will still have numerical parity with men. (Leading candidates for promotion include Nicole Menard and Pierre Ar-cand, and an English-speaking newcomer, Kathleen Weil. For a while, Charest's opponents may be preoccupied with their own internal problems. Although the PQ gained both seats and votes share yesterday, it now has lost three consecutive elections for the first time in its history The PQ suffered a psychological as well as a political blow when the left-wing sover-eignist Quebec solidaire won its first seat, the central Montreal INSIDE TODAY'S GAZETTE INSIDE TOMORROW'S GAZETTE only real leader it has ever had, has apparently concluded that' he is not the one to rebuild it from almost the ground up into serious contender for power.

As the leader of a small protest party, Dumont often asked the right questions. But judged by the higher standards of a poten- tial premier, he was found to be lacking satisfactory answers. And by the time he portrayed boxer in an ill-advised television comedy sketch during the cam- paign, the audience assumed he was playing a lightweight dmacpherson thegazette.canwest.com Sept. 11 suspects admit guilt The self-styled mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four co-defendants told a military judge in Guantanamo yesterday that they wanted to confess and plead guilty but only if it hastens their execution.

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