The Liberal Party (PLQ) wants to win back the ridings of Sainte-Rose, Huntingdon, Soulanges, Châteauguay and Gatineau, which escaped it in the 2018 elections.
This is what Liberal leader Dominique Anglade said in an interview on Radio-Canada radio Monday morning.
It was the first time she had specifically named gains she wants to make in the Oct. 3 ballot.
The PLQ suffers from the disaffection of Francophones according to the polls and had a difficult start to the campaign, but Ms. Anglade suggests that her party can take over the three ridings conquered by the CAQ in 2018.
“We want to conquer different sectors […]regain the confidence of voters,” she said.
At a press conference in Trois-Rivières afterwards, she tried to minimize the importance of this list.
“These are examples that I gave,” she said, citing other ridings in Mauricie, formerly liberal, but acquired by the CAQ since 2018.
“I could name 125 [circonscriptions] ! she continued, referring to her desire to form a majority government on October 3.
The Liberal leader suggested that “people are listening” to her message and that “the reception is very good”.
In 2018, in Huntingdon, the caquist Claire Isabelle topped the Liberal MP Stéphane Billette with barely 700 majority votes.
In Soulanges, Marilyne Picard ousted Liberal Minister Lucie Charlebois, with 15,000 votes to 13,000.
In Sainte-Rose, the caquiste Christopher Skeete obtained 2400 votes more than the outgoing Liberal Jean Habel.
In Gatineau, the CAQ won with a strong majority of 4,000 votes, but in Châteauguay, only 1,000 votes separated the caquiste MarieChantal Chassé from Minister Pierre Moreau.
Immigration
If it takes power, the Liberal Party pledged on Monday to welcome 70,000 immigrants in 2023, as was the case in 2022.
The PLQ thus wants to partially reduce the scarcity of labour.
An Anglade government would sign agreements with each of the regions to distribute new arrivals according to labor needs.