.ChantalHbert: For Pierre Poilievre, right-leaning premiers are more likely to hinder than help via torontostar
MONTREAL—The reelection with a stronger hand of Quebec premier François Legault will inevitably shake things up on the federal-provincial scene. So will Danielle Smith’s selection as the successor to Alberta premier Jason Kenney.
In contrast with Alberta, a province that is anything but central to the federal Liberals’ reelection chances, Quebec is essential to Trudeau’s electoral fortunes. The prime minister and the premier have several supporters in common. That translates into more federal leverage for Legault than Smith could ever hope for.
Still sooner or later, there will be major collisions between Trudeau and both premiers. But the prime minister is not the only federal leader who has cause to be bracing for those conflicts. This week’s provincial votes put the Conservatives and their latest leader in a difficult spot. At times, it was fair to wonder if Legault asked for the moon, Erin O’Toole would have chartered a spaceship to try to deliver it.
Over the course of his leadership campaign, Poilievre agreed with the other main contenders that the federal government should intervene in court in support of ongoing challenges to Legault’s secularism and language laws. O’Toole had always maintained that he, as prime minister, would watch from the sidelines.
If voters in the rest of the country have heard anything about the recent Quebec campaign, it is that the incumbent repeatedly stoked fears and prejudices about immigration.
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