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Marc-Olivier Fortin: The CAQ's fear-of-Trump campaign starts to crumble

Christine Fréchette faces the music during two Quebec leaders' debates

For the first time in a generation, Quebec voters were presented this week with fundamentally different visions of the province’s future.

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The framing for two televised election debates on Tuesday and Wednesday was a good environment for Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (PSPP) and Quebec Conservative leader Eric Duhaime, who both want to fracture the status quo: the former wants to separate from Canada, while the latter wants to break away from the Quebec model. And both of them offer a clear change and a real contrast to eight years under the Coalition Avenir Québec.

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Before the debates, the Qc125.com polling average had the PQ at 28 per cent, the CAQ at 23 per cent, the Liberals at 22 per cent and the Conservatives at 16 per cent. The PQ looked like the favourite to win a minority government.

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In recent weeks, CAQ leader Christine Fréchette was successful in using the tariff war and the constant presence of U.S. President........

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