.ChantalHbert: For Quebec Premier François Legault, a massive election victory may have been the easy part via torontostar
MONTREAL—Propelled at least in part by a winner-takes-all voting system, Quebec Premier François Legault cruised past four opposition parties to a massive reelection victory on Monday.
The Liberals were essentially shut out of francophone Quebec. The PQ — with a mere three seats including that of leader Paul St-Pierre-Plamondon — will have to struggle to make itself heard in the provincial legislature. But when it comes to the prospects of electoral reform, the Quebec proponents of a more proportional system are flogging a dead horse, one that is well on the way to the glue factory.
As the election demonstrated, none of Legault’s rivals holds enough cards to offer Quebecers a comprehensive alternative government, and irreconcilable differences stand in the way of any substantial alliance between any combination of them. As in the case of Ontario Premier Doug Ford last spring, Legault’s path to reelection ran through federal Liberal territory. A critical number of voters who supported the CAQ in Monday’s election cast a ballot for Justin Trudeau in last fall’s federal vote.A showdown between the provinces and federal government on health-care funding is looming. Trudeau wants more input on where the money would be spent.
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