Macpherson: Philippe Couillard gets a new father-in-law

As the already long-underway campaign for the Oct. 1 Quebec general election finally entered its official phase on Thursday, it looked as though the only thing that might save Premier Philippe Couillard’s Liberal government from defeat was Russian intervention.
It wasn’t just that the Liberals were trailing in the polls, and incumbents tend not to come from behind in Quebec election campaigns to win.
And it wasn’t the additional, sheer incompetence of the once-vaunted Liberal o