Quebec election: François Legault is a pragmatist at heart

By his own admission, François Legault is an impatient man.
In 1997, when he was president of Air Transat, the company he helped found, he abruptly sold off his shares and divested himself of the company in anger after a dispute with his partners. They found out after the fact that he had packed his bags and left them for good.
Later, serving as then premier Lucien Bouchard’s education minister in 1998, he complained about Quebec’s notoriously slow-moving bureaucracy, saying t