Mauricie

And when you have five parties, you have massive distortions.

Like, for example, you take the Centre du Québec, the Mauricie region, for example.

These have not been strong regions for the Parti Québécois since the Lucien Bouchard era.

And yet they could take some of these ridings with only about 30 percent of the vote, which, you know, normally wouldn't be enough.

A- and it's very important what that says about regions because for me it's gonna come to the reflection of the strategic vote.

People are gonna think within the next weeks, the next days, people are going to start voting on Sunday, and they're gonna start thinking, "In my area, what is the best way for me to avoid a referendum?" And that's gonna change everything because if you look at regions like the 450, but you, if you look, uh, la- to Mauricie, uh, to Outaouais, to Estrie, it can make huge changes where you have races with three or four parties sometimes even.

So this is gonna be where the parties are gonna try to bring voters.

They're gonna try to bring voters to be for or against the referendum because sincerely, that's all they have.

Tu sais, c'est la dernière chose-- il avait, il avait reçu toute une ovation avant le match là, tu sais, il a été accueilli en, en héros là.

Puis les Canadiens, bravo aux Canadiens qui ont compris, évidemment, c'était la logique des choses, mais bravo à Martin St-Louis qui a compris que, que Zach Bolduc, il a grandi en Mauricie, puis, puis Samuel Montembeault, il a grandi à cinq minutes de là aussi là, euh- Euh, bravo parce que ils étaient de l'aliment partant là.

Ouais.

Mais t'as raison.

Tu sais, on a amené des joueurs pour faire plaisir aux partisans.

Bolduc, Montembeault, qui sont des gars de la Mauricie.

Euh-

Ben oui.

It's a great barometer, and now the premier is showing up there.

So i- i- I was looking at the Mauricie and Trois-Rivières area.

I can't do that anymore.

So basically, I know this is not original, but these suburbs of Montreal, the Francophone suburbs of Montreal, who have swung between the PQ and the CAQ in recent elections, and who have swung towards Mark Carney's [laughs] Liberals federally last year.