Robert Libman: Québec solidaire is in turmoil. Who stands to benefit?

If QS implodes, it could greatly help the Parti Québécois solidify its climb in the polls. The Liberals? They have a steeper hill to climb.

For the past several months, most opinion polls on voter intentions in Quebec highlighted how support for Premier François Legault and his Coalition Avenir Québec was in free fall, inversely proportional to the rise of the Parti Québécois and its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. The Léger poll released this week, instead, shone the spotlight on Québec solidaire and its co-spokesperson, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois. Reeling from recent turmoil within the party, QS shed six percentage points, a third of its support, since March. Read More