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With its tropical climate, oceanfront estates and dearth of taxes, the Bahamas has a lot to offer a wealthy young celebrity. But when news broke this week that tennis pro Eugénie Bouchard had become a resident of the Caribbean nation, she found herself the unlikely target of the man expected to be Quebec’s next premier.

Bouchard, who was born in Montreal, had been living in Florida, but according to a report this week in La Presse she officially became a resident of the Bahamas earlier this year. Long considered a tax haven, the country charges its residents no personal income tax or corporate tax.

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Asked about the story on the campaign trail Tuesday, François Legault, leader of Quebec’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec, told reporters he didn’t like it. “I think we should live where we were born, where we learned to play tennis and pay taxes in our country,” he said.

The CAQ is leading in the polls ahead of Quebec’s Oct. 1 election, and the party has previously spoken out against tax havens, including when it was revealed in 2014 that the current premier, Philippe Couillard, had opened an offshore account in a tax haven in the 1990s.