Nothing ever changes in Quebec. In 1995, during the referendum, half the cemeteries in the province voted YES, and the seperatists still managed to lose.

Now plants are voting.

Some questions have arisen over the validity of the voting system used to select the leader. The PQ membership called in their votes using touch-tone phones, and at least one dog and a houseplant registered to vote, according to a source in one of the leadership campaigns.

Pixelle Daoust, a long-haired Chihuahua, and a plant called Gilbert Laplante were able to register as PQ members and received all the necessary credentials needed to cast a telephone vote, according to the source. The dog even received a birthday card recently from interim party leader Louise Harel. (For the record, Pixelle voted for former PQ cabinet minister André Boisclair, and the plant for the environmentalist candidate Jean Ouimet).