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Quebec’s longstanding love-hate relationship with Pierre Elliott Trudeau is morphing into collective indifference towards the son.
MONTREAL—Once a lightning rod for sovereigntist voters and a beacon for Quebec federalists, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is fast fading from the radars of both groups in his home province.
Quebec’s longstanding love-hate relationship with the late father is morphing into collective indifference towards the son.
Trudeau was initially such a polarizing Quebec figure that his own party — under Stéphane Dion — did not want him as a byelection candidate against Thomas Mulcair in Outremont.
When he ran in Papineau in the 2008 general election a year later, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe depicted the possible election of Pierre Trudeau’s son as an MP as a threat to all that francophone Quebecers hold dear.
“The future of the Quebec nation mostly plays out on the language front in Montreal,” Duceppe argued in an impromptu campaign speech delivered to local Bloc election workers. “For the sake of the respect of our language and our nation, we must beat Trudeau on Oct. 14.”
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Justin Trudeau’s relevance fading in Quebec: Hébert | Toronto Star
Quebec’s longstanding love-hate relationship with Pierre Elliott Trudeau is morphing into collective indifference towards the son.
MONTREAL—Once a lightning rod for sovereigntist voters and a beacon for Quebec federalists, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is fast fading from the radars of both groups in his home province.
Quebec’s longstanding love-hate relationship with the late father is morphing into collective indifference towards the son.
Trudeau was initially such a polarizing Quebec figure that his own party — under Stéphane Dion — did not want him as a byelection candidate against Thomas Mulcair in Outremont.
When he ran in Papineau in the 2008 general election a year later, Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe depicted the possible election of Pierre Trudeau’s son as an MP as a threat to all that francophone Quebecers hold dear.
“The future of the Quebec nation mostly plays out on the language front in Montreal,” Duceppe argued in an impromptu campaign speech delivered to local Bloc election workers. “For the sake of the respect of our language and our nation, we must beat Trudeau on Oct. 14.”
more
Justin Trudeau’s relevance fading in Quebec: Hébert | Toronto Star
