Nobody’s separating. Yet what’s happening in the suburban riding of Terrebonne on Monday may tell us something just as consequential about the country.
Three federal by-elections are being held that day. Two are in safe Liberal ridings in Toronto vacated by former ministers Chrystia Freeland and Bill Blair. The third is in Terrebonne. The largely francophone community northeast of Montreal is where Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste defeated the Bloc Québécois’s Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by a single vote in last year’s general election. That result was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court over irregularities with mail-in ballot envelopes.
He’s building it by defection.
