Quebec’s political scene right now, with an election eight months away, is like being in a Vegas casino. The cards have just been reshuffled, a high stakes poker game is in the offing, and predicting the outcome is like spinning a roulette wheel.

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For two years, polls had been forecasting an inevitable victory for the Parti Québécois, seen as the de facto alternative to François Legault’s tired Coalition Avenir Québec government as it continued to fall........

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