Lisée downplays bad polls, says he’s got the right election plan

ST-HYACINTHE — The train to Quebec independence will leave the station Oct. 1 with the election of the Parti Québécois, says party leader Jean-François Lisée.
Unfazed by a devastating new poll showing the PQ has sunk 19 percentage points behind the soaring Coalition Avenir Québec, Lisée insisted his strategy, which is to tell Quebecers the other parties represent a threat to their public services, is a winner in the long run.
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