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QUEBEC, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Andre Boisclair, the front-runner for leadership of Canada's Parti Quebecois, has admitted doing "some things in excess" in his younger days.
But Boisclair did not address allegations of drug use and hard drinking when he was a 31-year-old provincial minister, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported. When a reporter asked him about cocaine, he answered, "Thank you, bye."
"I'm someone who's had fun in life. I've done some things in excess," Boisclair said. "But when you look at things that took place many years ago, be careful: I'm nearing my 40s. I'm in full possession of my faculties."
Boisclair is an open homosexual, which has not become a major issue in the campaign, the Globe and Mail said. But separatists in Quebec dislike him because he is a federalist.
Jean-Claude Saint-Andre, a rival candidate, charges that the Gesca newspaper chain censored a Boisclair profile that ran in June in La Presse in Montreal, removing a paragraph that went into details about Boisclair's hard-partying days, because the chain is owned by the federalist Desmarais family. The paragraph remained in the story in three regional papers.
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