For victims of Canada Day flooding, every rainstorm raises fresh fears

MANSEAU, QC — Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon would rather not talk about U.S. President Donald Trump — or his trade war with Canada. In fact, St-Pierre Plamondon has said he is uneasy with words of war to describe the tensions with the U.S. and instead refers to it as a “commercial conflict.” He insists that the job of an aspiring premier is to appease anxieties and not increase them. The PQ leader would have much rather preferred spending the campaign reminding voters of the failings of the last eight years under the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec and convince...