Wednesday, June 10, 2026

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 https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/politique/2026-06-10/sondage-synopsis-la-presse/le-plq-chute-la-caq-remonte-encore.php

La Presse is publishing the results of a pre-election survey -Synopsis/LaPresse - this morning 

and it is good news for the CAQ. Under the leadership of Ms Christine Frechette, they

seem to have staged a comeback from the abyss to be considered a serious contender

for re-election.


What struck me about this is how important such pre-election polls can be. The detailled

analysis of the findings goes into how Ms Frechette is rated as competent and trustworthy.

And the fact that it is the Seniors population - ahem, my age group - who are the main

supporters of that faction. We don't get around that much; comforting to know that we

all agree she is aces. (As is her husband, the head of investment services at Desjardins, where

many elderly people bank).


So it is a three way race, with the PQ who are both aided and sidelined with their referendum

promise: aided, because it gives them young electors; handicaped because the oui is no stronger

than that.


And the liberals are slipping, increasingly incapable of appealing to Francophone voters, and now

no longer the refuge of New Quebecers.


Feels like the voting has already begun. In a sense, it has...

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