These and related facts were the reasons that Duplessis won four straight terms starting in 1944. Ivison claimed that Duplessis had exceeded any current Canadian politician in the unscrupulous vitriol of his rhetorical bashing of adversaries. Duplessis summarized this in his famous utterance, “The bishops eat from my hand.”The key to Duplessis’ success was in two strategies. Ivison also wrote that Duplessis was in league with the Roman Catholic clergy to hold Quebec in a state of public policy retardation. Gouin, Taschereau and Bourassa won four elections, though of those, only Louis-Alexandre Taschereau had four full terms.

Source: National Post June 30, 2016 17:48 UTC