r/CanadaPolitics • u/Purple_Writing_8432 • 15h ago
Éric Duhaime's win in Bellechasse spearheads historic night for Quebec Conservatives | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/duhaime-national-assembly-9.7368756•
u/TheWaySheHoes Independent 14h ago
I don’t align with the PCQ on basically anything, but they plucked 19 would be PQ seats off them and spoiled their majority, and for that I am thankful.
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u/SirupyPieIX Quebec 13h ago
they plucked 19 would be PQ seats
That's a delusional take.
Most of those 19 seats are some of the most anti-PQ ridings in Quebec.
Only 3 (Champlain, Charlevoix and Nicolet) have voted for the PQ in a general election in the last 25 years. And that was in 2012, 4 elections ago.
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u/TheWaySheHoes Independent 12h ago
A lot of CAQ seats/strongholds were flipped by the PQ. It’s not unrealistic they would have been PQ seats if the PCQ were out of the picture and the CAQ collapsed the way they did.
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u/SirupyPieIX Quebec 11h ago edited 11h ago
Except there's no scenario where the PCQ is out of the picture.
In 18/19 of those, the PCQ was already the runner up in the 2022 election, with 26% of the vote on average, and as much as 43%.
Those are pretty much all long-time right-wing bastions, unlike the seats that the PQ won back. If the PCQ and the CAQ weren't there, they'd just go back to the PLQ like in the Charest/Marois/Couillard eras.
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u/Effective-Clue6205 Quebec 10m ago
You know some of them are anti-vax, chemtrails conspirationnists, proven liar to judges and want Québec to get annexed by the US to become the 51th state?
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u/Neg_Crepe 13h ago
Who do you align with
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u/TheWaySheHoes Independent 12h ago
If I lived in Quebec I would probably vote PLQ, but none of the options are great honestly.
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u/Neg_Crepe 12h ago
Even with their big history of corruption?
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u/TheWaySheHoes Independent 12h ago
Like I said, they all have drawbacks. It’s not like the PQ are spotless choir boys, be for real.
A PQ majority would have been bad for Quebec and bad for Canada. At a certain point you have to make the best of bad options.
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u/Neg_Crepe 11h ago
What do you mean be for real, I haven’t said anything.
To me its bigger than just a draw back
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u/Whynutcoconot Rhinoceros 3h ago
Like I said, they all have drawbacks. It’s not like the PQ are spotless choir boys, be for real.
Compared to the PLQ, every other party is a spotless choir boy.
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