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QUEBEC — The Liberal quest is on for the elusive francophone voter.

After suffering its worst electoral defeat in 152 years in 2018, Quebec’s Liberals — in this case the youth wing — spent the weekend re-tooling party policies that they hope will eventually woo francophone voters in the regions back into their ranks.

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The operation was clear from the get go: create a more nationalist profile for the party.

To that end, the 450 delegates gathered on the campus of Université Laval this weekend adopted two major resolutions to get the party reboot going.

The first states the Liberals, once in power, will draft a Quebec constitution with all the bells and whistles, including entrenching the current charter of rights and freedoms and the Charter of the French Language.

The second, and by far the most controversial, was a motion saying the Liberals will adopt a law on interculturalism that will guide a future government’s approach to welcoming and integrating new arrivals.