Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe, centre, alongside MNA's Stephane Bergeron and Maka Kotto, right, speaks to supporters during a federal election campaign stop in Montreal, Monday, August 31, 2015.Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
The Bloc Québécois is reminding Quebeckers of what it brought voters during its years in Ottawa.
Leader Gilles Duceppe told a Montreal news conference today that Quebeckers have been largely ignored since the party was swept out of the province in 2011 by the NDP.
He says other parties have been evoking the past in recent weeks so it was time for his party to remind people of past exploits, such as stricter laws on organized crime.
Duceppe suggests the NDP, currently leading in the polls in Quebec, is exactly where the Bloc was in 2011 before their dramatic collapse.
The Bloc leader says people he's spoken to are parking their votes with the NDP in an effort to get rid of the Conservatives.
Duceppe notes the Conservatives were a minority government when the Bloc held more sway in Ottawa.
He says there is plenty of time left in the campaign to convince Bloc voters to return, despite going into the campaign with just two seats and handcuffed by lagging numbers at the polls.