Juno News - April 02, 2025


Bloc Surge Shakes Liberal Lead

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Bloc Québécois poll bump
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McCartney
Signs the polls may be WRONG Has cancel culture run amok during this election？

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Bloc Quebecois poll numbers are on the rise in the province of Quebec, and there's some reason to be optimistic about the chances of a Bloc win in the fall election. In this special episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest results from the latest poll, and what it means for the Bloc's chances of winning the next election.

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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.