Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard hoping for another election comeback
MONTREAL — With a robust economy and a main opponent seen as vulnerable, Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard calculated that a longer election campaign would be the secret to securing a second mandate.
To a point, it has worked, as polls suggest his party has caught up to the Coalition Avenir Quebec, the party it had trailed for months.
The two parties find themselves neck and neck heading into the final days of the campaign, and Couillard was striking a confident tone even with his chances very much up in the air.
“The choice is rather simple: What do you want? Who do you trust,” he told a recent partisan gathering in Laval. “Do you trust a government that balanced four consecutive budgets, that delivers on its promises or do you trust someone (the Coalition) that cannot even explain one of its policies.”