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Justin Trudeau, meanwhile, managed to score 51 per cent with respondents when it came to unpopularity.

The survey also contained some advice for Liberal MNA Dominique Anglade and Drummondville Mayor Alexandre Cusson: get out more.

The only two officially declared candidates thus far for the leadership of the Quebec Liberal Party, Anglade and Cusson are suffering from a lack of recognition on the part of the general public. Anglade, a former cabinet minister in the government of Philippe Couillard, was unknown by 49 per cent of respondents, while Cusson, whose arrival on the provincial political scene sparked heavy news coverage, was unknown by 83 per cent of those surveyed.

Anglade and Cusson can take some backhanded solace from the fact that only one-third of the politicians named in the poll were known by more than half of respondents, the most striking example of hiding in plain sight being that of Quebec Immigration Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette.

In the news frequently over Quebec’s ban on religious symbols in the public service or its equally controversial reform of the immigration system, Jolin-Barrette was unknown to 48 per cent of respondents.

Meanwhile Geneviève Guilbault, deputy premier of Quebec and minister of public security, was unknown to 63 per cent of respondents.

The online poll is estimated to have a margin of error of 3.1 per cent.