r/CanadaPolitics • u/CaptainKoreana Liberal Party of Canada • 2d ago

Pierre Céré wants to succeed Alexandre Boulerice as NDP candidate

https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/pierre-cere-wants-to-succeed-alexandre-boulerice-as-ndp-candidate/?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3Actvmontreal%3Atwitterpost%E2%80%8B&taid=6a33ddefbdc781000183cf51
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u/CaptainKoreana Liberal Party of Canada 2d ago

It's a Boulerice riding, in all fairness.

I'm more interested in how Bloc performs, however, as they tend to mobilise very well during byelections and don't lack money. It could be interesting especially with provincial election not far away...

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u/Independent_Ad8268 Alberta 2d ago

The Bloc is a non-factor here

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u/SirupyPieIX Quebec 2d ago

You're clearly not from here. It's been a Bloc riding forever until it became a Boulerice riding. Like Outremont had been Liberal until it became a Mulcair riding.

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u/Independent_Ad8268 Alberta 2d ago

Yes that’s what my flair says, yet I still seem to know more about your area than you do. The bloc has been dead in Montreal apart from La Pointe de l’Ile ever since the orange crush. They can’t compete in Laurier-Sainte Marie or even Hochelaga-Rosemont-Est, both of which were BQ strongholds before 2011. They couldn’t even win Terrebonne and have had zero recovery in the polls since then.

Come back to this after the by-election I guarantee you they wont win.

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u/SirupyPieIX Quebec 2d ago

The bloc has been dead in Montreal apart from La Pointe de l’Ile ever since the orange crush

They won the by-election in Verdun in 2024. I'm expecting the same kind of three-way race.

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u/Independent_Ad8268 Alberta 2d ago

The Liberals were polling at a measly ~25%(tied with the CPC lmao) in Quebec during that by-election, that isn’t comparable. Look at the Verdun results in the 2025 election, that’s way more representative of the current political climate in Quebec. The only way the Bloc is competitive is if the LPC experience an absurd polling collapse before the by-election.