It doesn't look like there'll be an anti-Liberal coalition of opposition parties for the upcoming byelection in Verdun.
Over the weekend, Parti Québécois leader Jean-François Lisée floated the idea of joining forces with the left-wing Québec Solidaire and the Green Party to run a single, left-wing candidate in the election to replace former Liberal minister Jacques Daoust, who quit politics over the summer.
Lisée pointed to some of his internal polling which suggested such an arrangement would be the only way to topple the LIberals, who've held the riding since 1939.
But at a news conference Monday morning, Québec Solidaire MNA Manon Massé said the party already has a candidate, Véronique Martineau, who's already begun campaigning — even though the byelection hasn't been officially called yet.
And she suggested that the newly-minted PQ leader was "engaging in media tactics instead of making realistic propositions" in making the proposal.
Meanwhile, the Green Party also dismissed the idea, suggesting they could have gotten behind the idea of a single candidate — provided that candidate was the party's leader, Alex Tyrrell.