Someone asked me today why I'm supporting Mr. Bachand. We have several very good candidates running for the leadership of the party, each with their own good ideas.
But Mr. Bachand is the only one who is not afraid to speak to the problems we are going to have to overcome in the rebuilding process. We can sit and watch the polls hoping that we are going to improve and that our opponents will not improve, or we can build bridges and give disaffected party members a reason to return.
I personally am tired of watching each month to see how close to 20% we can come in the polls.

"I will not hesitate to reach out to all the members and supporters of the Alliance who share our values and our objectives and who might want to work within a more modern, more moderate, party. I also want to reach out to those Liberals who are disappointed by a government that has been unable to articulate a forward- looking vision and which has fallen in the old habits which were so costly to us in the past. We must also make more room in the Progressive Conservative Party for all the Quebec nationalists who want to build, who want to move forward and who have had enough of doomsday predictions and negative politics. I will also try to bring the greatest possible number of people who have never participated directly in the political process to join me in the great adventure of the rebirth of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada."
( from Andre Bachand's campaign kick-off speech)

"I want to offer a new voice and unite all those, francophones and anglophones, from all regions of the country, from all backgrounds, who want to turn the page on a decade of drift at the helm of the country"

It's time to rebuild this party and put the fear o' God into the Liberals.