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LAC-BEAUPORT — Pierre Arcand says his party is not into self-flagellation, but the Liberals are doing some serious soul-searching about their disastrous election performance.

Emerging from a two-day closed meeting of the much-reduced party caucus, which turned into an election post-mortem, Arcand, the interim party leader, ventured a few theories on why the party cranked out the worst electoral performance in its 150-year-old history.

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Liberals have already admitted many of their traditional voters — including anglophones — didn’t bother voting Oct. 1, but now the party is digging deeper into why anglophones and a great mass of francophone voters snubbed the party.

Arcand — who revealed that the internal party criticism of their performance has been severe — said two things are clear so far.

First, the Liberals were late to latch on to the environmental climate change theme so masterfully manipulated by Québec solidaire in the campaign.