JONQUIÈRE, QUE – “Tell your leader to stop hitting Mark Carney. He doesn’t have to do it. He is not the target, Trump is.”

At the 4 Chemins restaurant in Jonquière, Alain’s words fall heavier than the rain outside as he gives a piece of his mind to Fanny Boulanger, the Conservative candidate in his riding.

Alain falls squarely in a voter category being targeted by the Conservatives. A hardworking senior, he embodies the pro-worker anti-corporate slogan “boots before suits” repeated by Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre.