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Quebec voters will decide in the next general election, due in October 2018, whether another four years of Liberal government will be good for the province.

But recent developments make it increasingly apparent that governing Quebec almost without interruption since 2003, thanks to the voters’ aversion to another independence referendum, has not been good for the Liberal party itself.

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The 19-month Parti Québécois interregnum between the defeat of Jean Charest’s Liberal government in 2012 and the election of Philippe Couillard’s in 2014 was too brief for the Liberals to distance themselves from the less glorious aspects of Charest’s legacy.

And it was too short for them to make the necessary internal reforms that a party can only make when it is in opposition, free of the discipline of government.

Last week, the Radio-Canada investigative program Enquête broke another alleged scandal from the Charest years, possibly with the help of another leak from within UPAC, the province’s anti-corruption unit.