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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault has pledged to govern Quebec with “pride and audacity” and dared Quebecers to embrace the kind of change he says Quebec needs.

But even as he reached out to English-speaking Quebecers, inviting them “to define our common future together,” he said the government still intends to replace school boards with service centres despite the objections of francophone and anglophone boards.

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In his opening speech to the National Assembly delivered Wednesday, Legault tapped into Quebecers’ sense of history and pride, while at the same time pledging to break with the habits of governments past that he said have left the population poorer, feeling cynical and helpless.

But getting there will take courage, he said.