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MAGDALEN ISLANDS — On a whirlwind tour of the regions in the final weekend of the campaign that will see him taking four flights in two days, Philippe Couillard positioned himself as the true nationalist leader of Quebec and cautioned voters to beware the “false promises” of François Legault.

With the latest surveys indicating the Coalition Avenir Québec could win a minority government, he also cast doubt on the reliability of polls.

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“You know with polls, I have limited trust in them,” the Liberal leader told a media scrum Saturday morning in the town of St-Augustin-de-Desmaures, west of Quebec City. “We have seen so many examples where they didn’t reflect the outcome. Wait for Oct. 1.”

Couillard concentrated his efforts on ridings where the race is close, focussing on Quebec City on Friday, then making five separate campaign stops in the Quebec City region Saturday before flying to the Magdalen Islands in the evening. It would be his second visit of the campaign to the remote archipelago that has shifted between Liberal and Parti Québécois hands over the last elections. He was greeted by a full house of Liberal supporters to support local candidate Maryse Lapierre, who is leading in the polls.