. In 2011, they abandoned the Bloc for the New Democrats in what turned out to be an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Conservatives from forming a majority government. In 2015, Quebeckers took the same bet on Justin Trudeau’s Liberals as other Canadians, suggesting a convergence of interests from coast to coast.Quebeckers’ return to the Bloc has at least as much to do with Mr.
This marks the fifth federal election in a row in which the Conservatives blew their prospects for a breakthrough in Quebec because of their own mistakes. Early campaign polls showed the party poised to double its seat count in the province from the 11 ridings it held at dissolution.
The fuss English Canada made over the Coalition Avenir Québec government’s Bill 21, which got more airtime in the English-language debate than either of the French ones, was a gift to the Bloc. It had targeted the same francophone voters who gave the CAQ a provincial majority last year. Among the federal parties, the Bloc had the field to itself in standing up for Bill 21, which bans some provincial employees from wearing religious symbols. That alone might have turned the tide.
It may not, however, be smooth sailing from here on. Mr. Blanchet will face relentless pressure from the party’s hard-core separatist base to put sovereignty at the top of the party’s agenda. He will face a tough task keeping the base happy without alienating the soft nationalists to whom the Bloc owes its renewed lease on life.Follow Konrad Yakabuski on Twitter
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