History of "the national"

This old post, about the PQ shifting from the "social" to the "national," still seems to describe what is happening in Quebec politics. Spare a thought for all those old socialist stalwarts who have been saying "On veut un pays" for forty years, now realizing if they ever got one, it would be Pierre-Karl Peladeau's country.

Sadly that would be good enough for quite a few.