Legault, who declined an interview request for this story.)Īlthough Mr. (The Globe and Mail spoke to friends and former colleagues of Mr. He is not only the best-liked Premier in a generation, but the most consequential. Since winning a majority government in 2018, he has soared to unprecedented approval ratings and built his party into a political machine expected to easily win the provincial election on Oct. Graham Hughes/The Canadian PressĪ little more than 10 years later, Quebeckers are certainly buying what Mr. Legault votes in L'Assomption, Que., on Sept. Vintage Legault, his former colleague thought: A pragmatist almost to a fault, impatient for results, an adept reader of the public mood, he rejected the idea of leading the Liberals not because they were the enemy, but because they weren’t selling. “The Liberal brand is no good any more,” he said. When his old boss offered him a job, he teased: If you’ve given up on independence, why not just become leader of the Quebec Liberals, the old federalist adversary?
Legault in his PQ days, and still nurtured the sovereigntist flame. The historian Éric Bédard was one of them. Figures from across the political and media landscape report being courted by the upstart Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in those days, and turning it down. Now, in 2011, he saw an opportunity that would take all his life experience, business savvy and political cunning to seize: He would form a new party, neither separatist nor especially attached to Canada, focused on defending Quebec’s identity and making the province richer.Ī promising idea, yes, but he was starting from scratch.
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