A sign that the lights are red in several Liberal castles, Dominique Anglade insisted on Sunday on “the need to get the vote out” everywhere in Quebec… Starting in the Marguerite-Bourgeoys fortress where she is scoring on Sunday.
Posted at 12:56 p.m.
This is the second time in less than ten days that the Liberal leader has stopped in Marguerite-Bourgeoys, a stronghold since its creation in 1965, to lend a hand to her recruit Fred Beauchemin who is trying to succeed Hélène David. On Sunday, Dominique Anglade even personally made a few calls to convince voters in the riding to vote Liberal.
“We look at the numbers like you,” admitted Mme Anglade in scrum. “What I would tell you is that we are confident, that we don’t take anything for granted and I tell the team. I know the work that is done on the ground, it is extraordinary, so we should have good results, ”she added.
The Liberals collect 36% of voting intentions, according to the Qc125 projection site. But the Coalition avenir Québec is heating up the Liberal troops with 29% as of September 24. In 2018, Hélène David was re-elected with an overwhelming majority of 8,605 votes (53.4%) on the CAQ.
Several liberal castles are threatened on the island of Montreal, starting with Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne where Dominique Anglade wants to be re-elected. The lights are red in counties like Maurice-Richard, Verdun and Anjou–Louis-Riel.
I’m sending a message for early voting everywhere, we need to get the vote out. It doesn’t matter where you are in Quebec.
Dominique Anglade, Leader of the Quebec Liberal Party
The Liberal leader is returning from a visit to the Outaouais, where outgoing MPs André Fortin and Maryse Gaudreault are defending their strongholds. Since the first leaders’ debate on September 15, the QLP caravan has spent most of its time rolling around Greater Montreal. This will also be the case for the coming week, but stops in Quebec and Estrie are on the schedule.
Dominique Anglade refuses to see his defensive strategy. “I campaign everywhere,” she said. “We were in Quebec, we went to Mauricie, Chaudière-Appalaches, Estrie, Outaouais… We haven’t finished touring the regions as well. Laval, Laurentides, Montérégie…”, she listed while there is one week left in the campaign. A stop could also be organized in the Îles-de-la-Madeleine in the wake of Fiona.
“Different” electoral strategy
Candidate Fred Beauchemin, who is in his first election, believes he has changed the electoral strategy in Marguerite-Bourgeoys by focusing more on door-to-door. “We worked very hard precisely to meet the citizens. For us, we are doing what is necessary to bring about a new campaign, a campaign which may not have been the campaign style of the previous elections,” he explained.
For us, doing land, going door-to-door in counties that were formerly considered secureI think it goes without saying.
Fred Beauchemin, Liberal candidate in Marguerite-Bourgeoys
This former managing director and head of capital markets at Scotiabank indicates that in the past, the organization may have relied more on scoring. When he is in the field, Mr. Beauchemin admits that he is “talked mainly about the CAQ and the Conservative Party”. In Marguerite-Bourgeois, the caquiste candidate Vicky Michaud was in the running in 2018.
Éric Duhaime’s Conservatives are courting the Anglophone vote.