CAQ leader courts Liberal voters in West Island

François Legault moved away from the West Island decades ago, but he still considers it home.
The leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec grew up in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue before launching a business career that saw him co-found Air Transat in 1986. He later jumped into provincial politics where he became a rising star in the Parti-Québécois. But a disillusioned Legault left the PQ in 2009, and two years later formed the CAQ, a right-centre political party that has f