Quebec election: PQ fights for middle ground in polarized race

SHERBROOKE — When Jean-François Lisée took over the reins at the Parti Québécois in 2016, he was fighting a two-front war.
On his left flank, disillusioned former PQ supporters rallied around Québec solidaire, a party that claims to better reflect René Lévesque’s social-democratic vision of Quebec.
To his right, the Coalition Avenir Québec — founded in 2011 by former PQ cabinet minister François Legault — siph