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In Game of Thrones, the side with the dragon usually wins the battle. So, at first glance, it looked like a good omen for the Liberals in October’s Quebec general election when this week, it was announced that they had recruited Alexandre Taillefer.

He’s well-known from his regular role until three years ago in the French-language version of the reality-television series Dragons’ Den, in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch investment proposals to wealthy business moguls.

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On closer examination, however, the news about Taillefer might not be such a good sign for the Liberals after all.

And this was even before he was exposed as politically promiscuous, a member in good standing of the Parti Québécois (signed up without his knowledge, he said) even as he joined the Liberals.

Taillefer strengthens an impression that the Liberals have become the party of business, distant from ordinary Quebecers.