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QUEBEC — Meet the new chairman of the Quebec Liberals’ election campaign — a man who is a card-carrying member of the Parti Québécois.

Alexandre Taillefer was also a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec, and over the years he has made donations to all three big Quebec parties and two different federal ones.

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The only party Taillefer does not seem to have dabbled in is Québec solidaire, even if he calls himself progressive and he wants to bring the Liberals back over to that way of thinking.

The startling revelations emerged late in the day in rapid-succession tweets from Quebec media outlets digging into the past of the media-savvy entrepreneur who made his fortune in online technology and starred on the French-language version of Dragon’s Den.

TVA and Radio-Canada started it, reporting Taillefer — who in 2016 wrote in his Voir magazine that he considers himself a queer political beast and it was time he came out of the closet — is still a card-carrying member of the PQ.