The National Post throw their support behind the CAQ:
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The newly formed Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), led by 55-year-old businessman François Legault, is a federalist party whose platform emphasizes nuts-and-bolts policy issues such as cleaning up sleaze in Quebec’s National Assembly, reforming the education and health systems, taking on the province’s bloated and powerful unions and generally turning Quebec from a have-not province into a have province. The CAQ promises to limit political donations to $100, get the government out of the business of micromanaging schools, and extend the hours of the province’s health clinics.
From our perspective, the CAQ is hardly perfect. Mr. Legault was a sovereigntist in the past, and originally was somewhat vague about the CAQ’s stance on future referenda. Moreover, he seems to embrace much of the same claptrap about the allegedly endangered state of the French language in Quebec, promising to strengthen the Office de la Langue Française and its army of language snitches. It is also true that the CAQ is a young party, untested by time or power. And as with all such new political start-ups (such as Wildrose in Alberta, or the newly ascendant Quebec wing of the federal NDP), it surely has attracted its share of unvetted oddballs.
Nevertheless, in a province that clearly is ready to move on from Mr. Charest, Mr. Legault provides a fresh face. And from a strictly strategic point of view, he provides federalist voters with the best option for keeping Ms. Marois out of the premier’s office: The latest polls suggest the CAQ running well ahead of the Liberals.
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http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...e-best-option/
Legault has apparently talked about wanting to reduce the load that Quebec puts on other provinces. For that reason, and the fact that he is a much better option than Marois in general, I would kind of like for the CAQ to take this election.