Francois Legault: the new Duplessis

Today, federalists have to deal with a demagogue in power with a weak opposition, hell-bent on making the Quebec ‘nation’ an ethnocentric nation-state.

Quebec Premier François Legault is a greater threat to Canadian unity than any of his predecessors, because what they failed to do in the open, he is accomplishing by stealth, writes Andrew Caddell.Screenshot courtesy of YouTube/CityNews

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 5, 2022

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—Here, they call him, deferentially, “Monsieur Legault.” When Quebec Premier François Legault was appearing daily on television, providing avuncular advice on the COVID-19 pandemic, it didn’t matter Quebec had the highest per capita death rate in Canada. He gave the impress...

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