makes mention of it that article as well
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Mulcair’s party still leads in Quebec with 32.8 per cent voter support, but the Tories have experienced a surge in support, rising to 23.7 per cent in the province.
“I think it’s in the Quebec City region and I think it’s related to the niqab and their response to the Syrian refugees,” Graves said.
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Quebec is interesting and polarized on the this kind of topic, regionally. Not surprised (if there is in fact a shift in support for the CPC) that it comes from the 'eastern townships' where anything that 'threatens Quebecois heritage' is a big issue.
Bill C-60, which was the undoing of the PQ in the last provincial election, was to make Quebec a secular state - a so-called clarifying of 'reasonable accommodation' for religious symbols, etc in the public sector. It including making it mandatory to have one's face uncovered for such things, and had a lot of support - but in geographical pockets only. Mainstream Quebec ended the PQ and that nonsense. I am pretty confident the PQ would have formed the government were it not for C-60.