Quebec’s next provincial election is still more than five months away, but Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade is already on the campaign trail.
On Thursday, the official Opposition leader was in Trois-Rivières, Que., a city of 140,000 people halfway between Montreal and Quebec City, promising more political power for the regions—a term often used in Quebec to describe rural and less-populated parts of the province.
The Liberals aren’t doing well in the regions, which are mostly francophone. Last general election, in 2018, the party won four seats outside the greater Montreal area, where its base of anglophone and immigrant voters resides. Since then, the Liberals lost two of those four seats in byelections.
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