Well, PKP has been leading the PQ parade for a week now. The party sold its soul for a last chance at separatist redemption and it's clear that his political crusade has nothing to do with the well-being of his fellow citizens but a misguided adventure with potentially disastrous consequences.

In his mind, separation will cure all that ails Quebec and will probably mean shorter winters and sunnier summers and cheaper beer.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject, said Churchill. He could easily have been describing the latest PQ saviour.

In his latest mind-numbing missive, Peladeau says that Canada is an "imaginary country." One of the most envied and blessed countries in the world is - according to PKP - an optical illusion. This guy is beginning to sound not like the village idiot but at least a close cousin.

Does he have a filter? All sovereignty, all the time.

Even his first speech as party leader, with the obligatory few words in English, was just to assuage fears that he really doesn't like us, you know "some of my best friends are," sort of thing. It was all standard PQ gibberish. “Our project is not against anyone or anything our project is not against Canadians,” he said.

One of the first things he did this week was to remove the imaginary Canadian flag when he was addressing the troops in the Red Room of the National Assembly. As soon as the speech was over, the imaginary flag was returned to its proper place.

Peladeau spent years making tons of imaginary Canadian dollars from the business his dad left him.

And PKP still has lots of 'splaining to do with regards to his media holdings. This guy owns TVA, newspapers, Videotron cable, magazines and more and he won't get rid of them.

He sees no conflict owning the largest media empire in Quebec. A nationalist media force to be reckoned with but perhaps it’s just an imaginary problem.

Perhaps he might also want to explain how dozens of Quebecor affiliate companies are not registered in Quebec nor the imaginary country of Canada but in the U.S. state of Delaware, which is a popular corporate tax haven. Another stretch of the imagination I guess

It’s all so bizarre when you think about it. A right wing union-busting businessman leading the Parti Quebecois whose sole mission in life now is to bring Quebec to frolic in an imaginary land. It’s all so very surreal.

That's how silly this is all becoming. Silly if it wasn't so damn tiring. And at the end of the day I am certain that Quebecers will not buy Peladeau's diatribes, nor his long list of hurts and insults and humiliations inflicted by that imaginary country. My sense is that the old angry separatist guard is fading away.

Peladeau is described in Le Devoir as "the man of last chance." Younger Quebecers don't nurse grievances, not even the imaginary ones. It's first down and forever for the Parti Quebecor and the rookie quarterback may be about to fumble. Peladeau's quest is so reminiscent of Don Quixote that he just may rid us of this old and tired issue once and for all.

Just imagine that.