Quebec election call: April 7, 2014

Premier Pauline Marois has confirmed that Quebecers will go the polls in a general election next month. Marois made a declaration in Quebec City this morning and said her cabinet had passed a decree paving the way for an election. She did not mention the date for the vote but it will be held April 7. The first poll of the campaign shows Marois’ Parti Québécois with a strong lead among francophone voters.

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“The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived their income from wages. Their welfare was the prime concern of economic policy, as Smith conceived it. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable," he wrote. "It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged." The chief economic concern of the legislator, in Smith's view, ought to be the purchasing power of wages, since that was the measure of the material well-being of the bulk of the population. (p. 64)” ― Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

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