OTTAWA – Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet took the rare step of denying the Conservatives are surging in Quebec, despite recent polling to the contrary, saying Pierre Poilievre’s party “is not in my flowerbed and my flowers are doing very well.”

“If a poll were to decide an election, we would form the government because we have been so dominant over the last six months,” Blanchet said at a press conference in the foyer of the House of Commons, adding that people give “too much importance” to polls.