Above watch: Candidates from Quebec’s three main parties are fighting to replace former Education Minister Yves Bolduc in Jean-Talon, a Quebec City riding considered among the country’s richest, most intellectual, beautiful … and Liberal. Caroline Plante has more.
QUEBEC CITY — Candidates from Quebec’s three main parties are fighting to replace former Education Minister Yves Bolduc in Jean-Talon, a Quebec City riding considered among the country’s richest, most intellectual, beautiful … and Liberal.
The riding includes Old Quebec, the National Assembly, the Plains of Abraham, Sillery and Ste-Foy.
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Sébastien Proux is a former ADQ House Leader and the current Liberal candidate in Jean-Talon. A young father of two, he was an advisor in Premier Couillard’s office until last week.
“I take nothing for granted,” he told Global News.
“My team and I are campaigning like it’s our first time.”
Hot on his heels is the Coalition Avenir Quebec’s Alain Fecteau. The 64-year-old businessman said he thinks Bolduc’s antics coupled with the government’s austerity plan will have voters thinking twice about electing another Liberal.
“All of them say the same thing: we’re tired of tax increases.”
“The middle class should not the ones that have to pay for everything the government has done wrong in the past,” he said, before shaking hands with young voters at Brûlerie Ste-Foy.
The Parti Québécois’ Clément Laberge, an e-book distributor, said he’s heard it too: the grumbling of discontent in the posh streets of Quebec City.
“This government says it will improve the efficiency of public services,” he said.
“But it’s only cutting expenses.”
Voters in Jean-Talon have been voting Liberal since 1966. A vote for the CAQ this time would be seen as a major reversal for the Couillard government.
There are four weeks left in the campaign; Jean-Talon will elect its new MNA on June 8.
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