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QUEBEC - Voters in the Quebec City-area riding of Jean-Talon will head to the polls on Oct. 2 to pick a new member of the provincial legislature.

The race for the Quebec City riding of Jean-Talon is raging. On Monday, the Conservative Party of Quebec announced its candidate will be Jesse Robitaille, a 24-year-old student who moved from Calgary to Quebec six years ago.

Marie-Anik Shoiry will be the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) candidate in the upcoming Jean-Talon byelection. Premier François Legault made the announcement Tuesday after spending the day in the Quebec-City area riding.

The provincial byelection for Quebec City's Jean-Talon riding has yet to be called, but tensions are already running high between the Parti Québécois and the CAQ.

Voters deserve better than bickering between the CAQ and the PQ argued both the Liberal Party and Quebec solidaire on Friday under the shadow of a tough byelection looming in Jean-Talon, in Quebec City.

Parti Quebecois (PQ) candidate in Jean-Talon, lawyer Pascal Paradis, said on Thursday that he was a PQ member, an independentist, (...) not a CAQ member. Elise Avard Bernier, co-founder and director of the Vie de parents website, will run for the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) in the upcoming byelection in Jean-Talon, Quebec City.

The CAQ, meanwhile, maintains that Pascal Paradis courted the party to be one of its candidates in the 2022 election and bargained for a ministerial post.

Would do little to address the housing crunch, they say, and would instead hurt university research and deprive Quebec of skilled immigrants.

Parti Québécois (PQ) leader Paul St-Pierre-Plamondon cut short his paternity leave on Wednesday to defend his candidate in the upcoming byelection in Jean-Talon, who held talks with the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) in the last election.

Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says Pascal Paradis "simply consented to exploratory exchanges” with the Coalition Avenir Québec last election.