Parti Quebecois Leader Andre Boisclair is just trying to kiss the Quebec election away (link).

Boisclair was speaking to students this week about his studies at Harvard when he referred to students with "slanting eyes." Boisclair was talking about global competition from Asian economies like India and China and the number of young people who leave these countries to pursue studies in the United States.

"The reality is these countries are not just working to create jobs in sweatshops," Boisclair said in Trois-Rivieres, Que.

"When I was in Boston, where I spent a year, I was surprised to see that on campus about one-third of the students doing their bachelor's degrees had slanting eyes."

I guess his admitted cocaine use (while he was in Cabinet) just wasn't damaging enough.

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