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   Why the NDP is losing Quebec voters   
      
   Jay Hill will vote for anyone who can beat Stephen Harper's Conservatives.   
      
   A tech entrepreneur by trade, the 35-year-old transplanted Montrealer has   
   become anti-Harper by design, due mostly to what he calls the "campaign of   
   fear" wrought by the Conservatives. "Certain things fly in the face of what it   
   is to be Canadian," he    
   says.   
      
   A month ago, this meant his vote would have gone to the NDP, as it did in the   
   2011 election. With 54 of the province's 78 seats, the party looms large over   
   Quebec, and its sustained popularity over the last four years has created an   
   opportunity long    
   elusive to left-leaning Quebec federalists: a credible progressive bulwark   
   against both the Conservatives and the separatist Bloc Québécois.   
      
   Yet in the face of sliding national polls and a resurgence of Justin Trudeau's   
   Liberals, the Quebecer is rethinking his vote. "If the NDP would have needed   
   my vote to win a majority government and kick out the Conservatives, then it   
   would have my vote,"    
   Hill says.   
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   Globe and Mail:   
      
   The Liberals have caught up to the NDP in Quebec, as voters in the province   
   increasingly see Justin Trudeau's team as the party most likely to defeat the   
   Conservatives, according to the latest Léger poll.   
      
   The New Democrats' massive lead in Quebec has steadily evaporated during the   
   campaign, as growing numbers of strategic voters turn to the Liberals,   
   pollster Jean-Marc Léger said.   
      
   "A Liberal vote is now seen as the most useful way to beat the Conservatives,"   
   he said in an interview.   
      
   "There are not many people in the country who think the NDP can win, so the   
   whole notion of strategic voting no longer plays in the party's favour," Mr.   
   Léger said.   
      
   Across the country, Léger found the Liberals in first place at 34 per cent,   
   followed by the Conservatives at 30 per cent and the NDP at 25 per cent.   
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