Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois worked throughout the campaign to present Québec solidaire (QS) as a progressive, ecologist, separatist, but not dangerous, alternative to the Coalition avenir Québec.
The 32-year-old set off down the campaign trail bringing only QS’s election platform — a document redacted from the party’s disturbing ideas, such as “restricting the carrying of firearms” by the police — and its “ambitious, rigorous and transparent” plan to fight climate change, Vision 2030.
In the four corners of Quebec, the aspiring Prime Minister repeated that Quebecers were going to participate in “the last chance election” for the climate on Monday.
He tried as much as possible to present the fight against greenhouse gases as a social project where no one lectures anyone. “Seeing the ecological transition as [si elle était] based on individual choices only, I think that’s an old way of looking at things. We, what we want, in Quebec solidaire, is to give the possibility of making better choices, ”he argued in one of the many electoral premises where he went to score.
The co-spokesperson for solidarity has also been busy fending off the fire against his climate plan, which is, according to the chief caquiste, François Legault, stuffed with “orange taxes” – a tax on the most polluting vehicles here, a tax on net assets over $1 million there.
He underwent a leadership test after learning that his candidate Marie-Ève Rancourt had removed a PQ flyer from the mailbox of an elector in the riding of Camille-Laurin, where she was seeking the vote under the banner of QS.
In 10 years, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois has gone from the streets, where he led the mobilization against the tuition hike planned by the Charest government during Maple Spring, to the forefront of the political scene, where he represents the “climate generation”.
“GND” aims to assume the responsibilities of leader of the official opposition in the National Assembly. No matter where he ends up in the Blue Room after the ballot, he will “hound” the government in order to “force” it to act to get through the climate crisis and solve the housing crisis, he promised.