Cant the Tories form a coalition with the CAQ where they withdraw from running in Quebec and let the CAQ take seats in the federal parliment
CAQ isn't a federal party.
Cant they run candidates for federal office, because I thought they just chose not to
Why would they? It would just be Bloc 2.0. Bloc does just what CAQ would do if it sought federal seats.
If CAQ did run for federal seats in Quebec, it would just split the vote in places like Montreal and give Liberals more seats.
I thought they were much to the right of Bloc though.
My overall point though is for Conservatives to do better in Quebec why not run some sort of Quebec style conservative party(if there isnt then create one) to get some seats in Quebec which then later would form a coalition with the Canadian conservative party
Eh. Sure they're economically to the right of Bloc but their economic positions are fairly similar to the Quebec Liberals. In any case they'd vote similarly in Parliament as Bloc to just rake cash back to Quebec and vote for socially conservative proposals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_QuebecThere's the PCQ, but I'm not sure if they're connected to the federal party or not. In any case their electoral record is abysmal. Conservatives just aren't going to do well in Quebec without alienating western voters.
