So, this is it. After months of repeating he would remain as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec, François Legault finally came to the conclusion that he must step aside — “for the sake of my party, but most of all for the sake of Quebec.”

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Following a sequence of bad news for his government — including the departure of some of the party’s most prominent pillars, Lionel Carmant and Christian Dubé — the final blow appears........

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