Editorial: Philippe Couillard's Liberals have earned a new mandate

The Couillard Liberals won the last election promising to focus on “les vraies affaires,” and that is what they have done. Their priority at the start of their mandate in 2014 was to put the province’s economic house in order. Now, the economy is booming. Unemployment is low. Quebec is an attractive place to live and work. Gone are the much darker days when confidence in the future was sorely tested.
There is no doubt that the government’s budgetary belt-tightening early