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QUEBEC — It started with an embarrassing leak about a former premier and ended with a high-profile resignation.

In politics or otherwise, that’s called having a bad week, and Quebec’s Liberals know it only too well.

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A Chapleau cartoon on the La Presse tablet showing an ashen faced Premier Philippe Couillard standing alone in the legislature surrounded by tiny ghosts of his predecessor, Charest, said it all.

The Liberals spent the week on the defensive; forced repeatedly to fend off allegations of past party misdeeds – one columnist referred to them as dangerous liaisons – and efforts by the opposition parties to connect the dots to the government of today.

“We have nothing to hide,” Couillard snapped late Wednesday as a routine committee examination of the executive’s annual budget turned into a free-for-all for an opposition fuelled by fresh scandal reports produced by the Journal de Montréal and TVA media outlets.