Juno News - April 02, 2025


Bloc Surge Shakes Liberal Lead


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Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

167.2213

Word Count

268

Sentence Count

12


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00:00:00.000 The Liberals maintain their lead, that they are still in majority government territory,
00:00:04.040 as unbelievable as it sounds. They were polling at 41% in this poll, with the Conservatives down
00:00:09.560 at 35%, which is quite low for the Conservatives. But then there was a couple of things lower down
00:00:15.100 in the poll that might give us some sign of hope, sign of optimism. The first one was the results
00:00:22.080 that you had in Quebec. So why don't you walk us through those? Sure. So in Quebec, we found that
00:00:27.740 actually 36% of those that responded or actually supported the Bloc Québécois this time,
00:00:33.340 compared to 34% for the Liberals and 22% for the Conservatives.
00:00:37.720 Now, this is a very big uptick for the Bloc Québécois,
00:00:41.620 and I think that it's really important to note that it follows on the heels
00:00:46.400 of some pretty serious gaffes in the Quebec campaign of McCartney.
00:00:50.940 There are some, first of all, there was turning down the TVA debate.
00:00:54.740 There was also getting his candidate's name wrong and misstating which massacre she actually survived.
00:01:04.300 There's a few things that are very core to Quebec culture that simply do not fly, not to mention also his French skills at the same time.
00:01:14.540 So seeing this bump to the Bloc Québécois makes sense in our poll.
00:01:21.140 I know there's other posters that are showing that it's a bit of a deficit still, but I'm fairly confident that given this, I think we'll start to see more and more people come out and show the block up on the upswing in the province of Quebec.