The Pollcast: What happened in Quebec and what happens next

After the decisive victory of Franois Legault's Coalition Avenir Qubec in Monday's provincial election, is Quebec on track for a major political realignment?

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• CAQswept to power by suburbs, rural regions and francophones

Not only didQuebecerselect a government that was neither LiberalnorPartiQubcoisfor the first time since 1966, they gave the two traditional governing parties their worst election results ever.

And Qubec Solidaire finally broke out of its downtown Montreal enclave to replace the PQ as the standard bearer of the sovereignist, progressive vote in the province.

On this week's episode of the Pollcastpodcast, host andCBCpolls analystricGrenieris joined by Karl Blanger, president of the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation and former national director of the NDP,to break down the results of the Quebec election and to speculate about what it means for politics in the province ahead of next year's federal election.

Then, theCBC's Catherine Cullen and Katie Simpsondiscuss what they're watching on Parliament Hill:the fallout from the free trade negotiations with the United States, the upcoming legalization of marijuana and the deteriorating tone in the House of Commons.

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