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Friends and collaborators That is not to say that the PM would be hostile to a provincial pa- quiste government headed by Rene Levesque. They are old friends and collaborators. Indeed, during the Que- bec provincial election of 1962, Tre- deau scolded the NDP for thinking $f tunning one of its own against Leves- que in his own riding. He urged, instead, that the NDP support only leftist clement. which has’ any chance ‘of taking power, that being Rene: Levesque” — a minister in the In the...