It was only 20 years later that a couple of former MNAs attempted to resurrect the provincial Conservative party. Under the leadership of well-known businessman but amateur politician Adrien Pouliot, the party remained marginal, gathering only 1.46 per cent of the vote in the past provincial election, in 2018. Then came Duhaime.Article content
As a radio show host and writer, Duhaime has been involved in too many controversies to list them all here. Let us just say that he is the exact opposite of a politically correct politician. One example will suffice: he once compared sexual assault to having your unlocked car burglarized.Duhaime is a brilliant “provocateur” and a very effective communicator. That could make him a formidable politician, if only he managed to straitjacket his worst instincts.
Although fully vaccinated himself, Duhaime has catered to the “anti-vax” crowd, stating that “it is not for politicians to tell people whether they should get vaccinated or not” and criticizing the lockdown measures put in place by the provincial government as “public health extremism.”Article content
This week, Duhaime announced that the party’s candidate for a coming byelection on the south shore of Montreal would be Anne Casabonne, a well-known actress who recently tweeted that the vaccines against COVID-19 were nothing but “a pile of s–t.” About this candidacy, star political columnist Michel C. Auger wrote in La Presse: “It’s pure Éric Duhaime: the publicity stunt that gives a big high, an ephemeral intoxication, but which ensures a solid hangover the next morning.
As contemptible and opportunistic as it is, the strategy works. Compared to a poll conducted last month, François Legault’s Coalition avenir Québec lost four percentage points, most going to the Conservatives. Overall, only four per cent of the survey’s respondents are not vaccinated, but no less than 27 per cent of Conservative voters still resist vaccines. In other words, the party has become the political shelter of the unvaccinated.
ChantalHbert nationalpost Damn right. If you don’t cheat on the elections again, you’re in deep trouble
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