Duhaime is sitting second in some polls behind only the dominant governing CAQ, and earning his party its first-ever invitation to address the Montreal Chamber of Commerce
Standing unassumingly in front of a Montreal business audience enjoying its catered lunch, Éric Duhaime did not look like someone who had recently been called a merchant of hate, or who had been required to clarify that he didn’t think the past U.S. election was stolen.
He repeated his support for the anti-vaccine trucker convoy that paralyzed Ottawa this winter, called CAQ spending plans “odious,” and defended his party’s lack of greenhouse-gas reduction targets while calling for Quebec to exploit its oil and gas reserves. Quebec City is a paradox: a government town that is much more conservative than the society it governs. It is a reliable source of seats for right-leaning provincial parties as well as for the federal Conservatives, from Stephen Harper through Erin O’Toole.
“He fought against the system. He won people’s hearts,” said Mr. Labeaume, who became a frequent target of Mr. Arthur and his imitators. “Socio-culturally, it’s the reaction of the plebs.” One of his former co-hosts, the onetime Parti Québécois cabinet minister and current CAQ candidate Bernard Drainville, said that exchanges about the size of the state with Mr. Duhaime, a conservative true-believer, could be brutally intense.
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