Opinion: Quebec could again play kingmaker in a Conservative leadership race

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Quebec could again play kingmaker in a Conservative leadership race

Despite electing just a handful of Conservative MPs, Quebec has played a deciding role in recent Tory leadership campaigns. Both Andrew Scheer, in 2017, and Erin O’Toole, in 2020, successfully courted single-issue Tories in the province to win their respective leadership races. Mr. Scheer wooed, vowing to protect supply management; Mr. O’Toole solicited support from gun owners, promising to undo Liberal gun-control policies.

With all 338 federal ridings having an equal number of votes in the leadership contest, regardless of membership totals, Quebec’s 78 ridings could again swing the race. Judging by their reactions, the more than 700 party members who made up the audience at Wednesday’sin Laval, Que., appeared to be evenly divided between Charest and Poilievre supporters.

Faced with this barrage, Mr. Poilievre appeared far less self-assured than he looked during the English debates, and it was not because French is his second language. The son of a francophone father from Saskatchewan, Mr. Poilievre is highly competent in French. But the air seemed to be escaping from his balloon on Wednesday evening.

 

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JeanCharest_ is fluently bilingual, far more experienced and has a better grasp of issues than PierrePoilievre. Hopefully Quebec conservatives and voters support Jean.

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