Pur et dur

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Pur et dur (French:

SNP fundamentalist", used in Scottish politics for a faction of the Scottish National Party
, another pro-independence party.

Many of the first "purs et durs" came from the

sovereignty-association", and the question of the "étapisme" approach) and language protection (see Charter of the French Language). Some also criticize the party for not being social democratic
enough.

These militants have famously made the leadership of the Parti Québécois a test and daunting task. The media has tied the resignation of every former PQ leader except

Pierre-Marc Johnson.[citation needed] Parizeau a former Premier of Quebec
, has sometimes been portrayed as "pur et dur."

Examples

These are people having been portrayed by some as purs et durs, while this "status" is debatable.

Two notable exceptions are Guy Bertrand and Gilles Grégoire. Both are founding members of the Parti Québécois, but have (or had) come to be disowned by the purs et durs.

Bertrand was called, by René Lévesque, an "ayatollah in bedroom slippers," mostly because of his vigorous attempts to get the PQ to declare unilateral independence, but later wrote that an "intolerant, ethnocentric, egocentric" Québécois nationalism has been the bane of Quebec and Canada. A skilled lawyer, he has taken his anti-separatism cause to court several times.

Grégoire was a founding member and elected to the National Assembly of Quebec twice but was cast out when he was convicted of having sex with minor girls and sentenced to jail. He died in 2006.

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