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Marc-Olivier Fortin: Quebec goes 'elbows up' — CAQ could ride anti-Trump voters to victory

Christine Fréchette is shamelessly copying Mark Carney's playbook

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Trump is the imminent danger “at the door” that Christine Fréchette, CAQ leader and Quebec premier, is using to rally-round-the-flag against, in an attempt to rescue her government from what had seemed certain defeat in October’s election.

Marc-Olivier Fortin: Quebec goes 'elbows up' — CAQ could ride anti-Trump voters to victory Back to video

Sounds familiar? It is a very similar to the strategy that Mark Carney used for his own election against Pierre Poilievre.

A key figure from former premier François Legault’s government, Fréchette was handpicked by party apparatchiks and won a leadership race after Legault resigned this past winter. In power since 2018, Legault was at one time the most popular, and later the least popular, premier of the province this century.

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Trump might not be about to sack Quebec City, but Fréchette is behaving as if he is. In her first campaign news conference on Thursday, she declared with all seriousness, yet could not help but crack a little smirk: “My opponent is named Donald Trump. He’s the real........

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