This is what a new light survey suggested by the Bloc Québécois in Ottawa, conducted online with 1003 Quebec respondents from January 17 to 19, and whose Canadian press obtained a copy.
If a general election took place today, the PQ would obtain 34 % of support (+3 % since December), compared to 25 % for the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) by François Legault (+1 %).
The Liberal Party of Quebec (PLQ) has 15 %of the voting intentions, Québec Solidaire (QS), 12 %, and the conservative party of Quebec (PCQ), 11 %, according to the Léger firm.
The needle has been changing very little for a year; The small team of four deputies from Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon remains at the top of the surveys, more popular than the Legault government, which is however hopeful of overthrowing the steam.
At the preseseed caucus of his political training in Saint-Sauveur this week, the Prime Minister and CAQ chief, François Legault, did not fail to compare the “Trump crisis” to that of the COVID-19.
He presented himself as a safe bet, having led Quebec during the years of pandemic, and warned that the Quebec economy will be turned upside down if Mr. Trump decided to impose customs tariffs of 25 %.
The coming to power of Donald Trump is indeed a “challenge” for the opposition in Quebec, also recognized Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon Thursday in Terrebonne.
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He said he feared that all political issues in Quebec will be obscured by the responses that the Legault government will give to the economic threats of the United States.
Another shadow on the board for the PQ: support for sovereignty which stagnates at 37 %, according to the survey. Legault said on Tuesday that he will leave the “two old parties”, the PQ and the PLQ, arguing on the national issue.
PLQ’s temporary chief Marc Tanguay had just said that Donald Trump’s economic threat was a “patent” argument against the idea of ”separating from Canada”.
“How could Paul St-Pierre Plamondon justify separating Quebec from Canada?” Because at nine million, we would be stronger than 40 million? ” launched Mr. Tanguay.
Mr. St-Pierre Plamondon had suggested that there was no better time to be interested in the national question, since, according to him, the federal regime currently demonstrates that it “badly defends our interests”.
The light survey is not probabilistic; No margin of error can be calculated. As an indication, a probabilistic sample of 1003 respondents would have an alleged margin of error of ± 3.09 %, 19 times out of 20.
