Battlefield Chicoutimi: Liberals set to go ‘all in’ on flipping Quebec seat as Tories eye unlikely odds in Vancouver

With nearly $324,000 in combined spending room versus the Bloc’s $99,000, the Conservatives need to triple-down on defending Chicoutimi–Le Fjord, says past party campaign manager Fred DeLorey.

The Liberals will be able to funnel nearly triple the usual campaign spending into the race to replace Conservative Richard Martel, centre, in Chicoutimi-Le Fjord on Aug. 31, drawing on resources from safer urban ridings in Toronto and Vancouver previously repped by former MPs Jonathan Wilkinson, left, and Nate Erskine-Smith.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and illustration by Joey Sabourin

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BY STUART BENSON

August 19, 2026

Politicos and party sources say the Liberals are set to go all-in on Quebec in the upcoming triple byelection, pooling their national resources away from two safe, urban ridings in hopes of leapfrogging the second-place Bloc Québécois and ultimately unseating the incumbent...

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