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Here for Canada? Not when its inconvenient: (April 8, 2011 - James Fitz-Morris, CBC News)

As anyone even closely following this election knows by now, the campaign slogan for the Conservatives is "Here for Canada." But Veterans Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn is among those who has a different take on his party's "Here for Canada" campaign slogan. His riding of Jonquiere-Alma is in the middle of the Saguenay -- a region of Quebec considered the heartland of the sovereignty movement. [... Instead] the slogan here is "Notre Region au Pouvoir" (Our Region in Power).

Downplaying Federalism seems to work for the party in this part of the country -- where the Conservatives hold two of the three seats.

Why does the Conservative Party, which claims to be "Here for Canada", allow its Quebecois candidates to adopt a nationalistic tone that panders to sovereigntist mores at the local level?

Stephen Harper in 2004 said "exploiting a nationalist strategy in Quebec" is as a strategy "fundamentally mistaken":

Conservatives have also observed that, when they came to power in Canada in the past century, they did so in coalition with the province's so-called "nationalist" forces. This lesson has been interpreted by the Canadian Alliance as meaning that the party should position itself as a nationalist force in Quebec and focus on the significant anti-Liberal vote. To the extent that it had a Quebec strategy, the Reform Party before it tended to think the same way. Over the past few years I have concluded that this strategy is fundamentally mistaken. Stephen Harper, 2004

Apparently in 2011 that view has changed. Exploit away, Jean-Pierre and the rest of the Quebec team! Pork-barrel politics is the same in any language, right Larry Smith?