Justin Ling: Quebec voters didn’t listen to their very popular premier, who vaguely backed Erin O’Toole. In the end, no party got the breakthrough they wanted.
Shannon Proudfoot: ’It seems certain that at least some of the Liberal slide has been the direct result of an electorate surly about being pressed into service when the pandemic has not remotely moved into the rearview mirror.’
Justin Ling: In the first French-language leaders debate, Trudeau and O’Toole bent over backwards to pitch themselves as the PM who’d spend the most and do the least
Stephen Maher: Yves-François Blanchet won support talking not of separatism but of Bill 21—a political issue which may have a simple solution in the end