OTTAWA—The up-and-down relationship between Ottawa and Canada’s second most-populous province has entered a new, unknown phase following the Coalition Avenir Quebec’s historic election win. “It’s very, very different — it’s a new era,” said Eric Montigny, a political scientist from Universite Laval in Quebec City. The seven-year-old Coalition won a healthy majority mandate Monday that knocked Philippe Couillard’s Liberals from power. The new chapter is being cracked open by François Legault, whose centre-right Coalition party has a central vision of obtaining more autonomy for Quebec within the Canadian federation. “We’re very eager to work with them,” said Tory MP Alain Rayes, who ran for the Action democratique du Quebec party that later merged with Legault’s Coalition.

Source: thestar October 03, 2018 01:41 UTC