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QUEBEC — Premier François Legault’s political honeymoon with Quebec voters continues.

According to a new Angus Reid Institute survey, six in 10 Quebecers (59 per cent) approve of Legault’s efforts as premier.

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That puts Legault at the top of the premier’s class in Canada along with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, who has the approval of 57 per cent of his voters.

The premier with the lowest approval ratings is Nova Scotia’s Stephen McNeil (a Liberal).

Such a high score for a new premier like Legault is not uncommon, Angus Reid notes, since he is just starting a four-year mandate in the big chair.

On Oct. 1, Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec made history, sweeping the province’s election by winning 74 seats. It has since added another seat, in Roberval, to make it 75.

It was the first time since 1966 that a party other than the Liberals or Parti Québécois took power in the province.

In a brief two-week pre-Christmas sitting of the legislature, the CAQ moved on its plans to reduce immigration from 50,000 a year to 40,000 and presented a bill to raise the legal age for marijuana consumption from 18 to 21.