A word of explanation for viewers outside Quebec. Gilles Duceppe is leader of the Bloc Quebecois (a bourgeois nationalist coalition tremendously popular inside Quebec, for non-Canadian readers). In the 70s he was a Maoist - which isn't so surprising, a lot of people used to be Maoists in Quebec in the 70s. The entire independantiste movement was socialist: it represented a groundswell of working class radicalism, to throw off anglophone capitalist rulers. The picture shows leaders of the Front Commun, the Quebec unions who launched the biggest general strike in Canadian history in 1972, occupying towns and taking over radio stations.

"Je me souviens" - I remember - is on all Quebec license plates: it's a Quebec nationalist slogan, referring directly to the martyrs of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, and indirectly to Canadian state oppression. The Bloc's slogan this election is "Heureusement, ici c'est le Bloc" (Happily, here is the Bloc). "Happily, I don't remember" is an indictment of the Bloc and a good chunk of the independantiste movement, for emptying Quebec sovereignty of its social content, and turning it into a bourgeois nationalist movement.