The PQ’s tepid mandate

The PQ is crowing about holding power once again; the Liberals are boasting about doubling their seats, and the Conservatives are positioning themselves as a new force in Quebec politics. Yet, the success these parties achieved wasn’t a result of who they are, but of who they aren’t: the CAQ.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon at a campaign event in Lac-Mégantic, Que.

OAKVILLE, ONT.—After the 2016 United States presidential election, American humourist P. J. O’Rourke told an interviewer he’d met only a few Americans who voted for Donald Trump. Still, he’d met a whole boatload who voted against Hillary Clinton. 

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