Trois-Rivières

The race in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, picked up national interest when the former mayor of the city Yves Lévesque announced he was running for the Conservatives. All of a sudden what looked like a two-horse race between the NDP and Liberals became a very competitive three-horse race with Yves Lévesque and the Conservatives. And with the late resurgence of the Bloc it has become a very crowded field in this city where the St. Maurice River flows into the St. Lawrence. The incumbent, the NDP’s Robert Aubin, won by less than a 1,000 votes in 2015 and is running again. City councillor Valérie Renaud-Martin is the Liberal and Louise Charbonneau, a riding association president for the Bloc Québécois, is the BQ candidate. CPAC’s Marc-André Cossette reports from Trois-Rivières.