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Originally Posted by eternallyme
The Liberal gains were primarily concentrated in and around Greater Montreal, where the niqab issue was never an asset anyway. But in the rest of Quebec, it killed Mulcair and drove the ABC voters to Trudeau in a heartbeat. All it confirmed was that Quebec was not a distinct society politically (it wasn't too distinct from other regions).
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To respond more clearly on this, anti-niqab sentiment is fairly strong in Quebec. (Even if not a "ballot question" for most people.) However, the reason it's higher than in most of the rest of Canada is because on top of the usual chunk of xenophobic people that you have in all provinces, you have secularism and feminism pushing the numbers up significantly in Quebec as well.