Blanchet’s Bloc in a position to milk the Liberals for all they’re worth

A Bloc-Liberal partnership is like a common-law relationship, the kind that’s popular in Quebec where two people live together for economic reasons long after the romance has faded.

With the NDP-Liberal deal dead, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is getting a lot more attention given his new power to keep the minority government afloat.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ÉRIC BLAIS

September 18, 2024

The last time Canadians outside Quebec paid any attention to Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet was during the English-language leaders’ debate during the 2021 election. During that debate, moderator Shachi Kurl asked him, “You deny that Quebec has problems ...

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