Bloc’s Blanchet tries to elbow his way into a campaign largely defined by Trump [Video]

A springtime election in battleground Quebec makes a stop at a cabane à sucre inevitable. So it was no surprise Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet rallied the troops at a sugar shack late this week.

But in a campaign that has threatened to squeeze out the sovereignist party’s pro-Quebec messaging amid Canada’s trade war with the United States, Blanchet has yet to find his sweet spot. 

“I’ve been so good,” he mocked his Liberal rival Mark Carney. “Give me a majority!” 

“What an idea,” he said. “Four years, one gaffe per day. Donald [Trump], come help me!” 

It got the laughs one might expect out of the dozens in the partisan crowd, gathered in Saint-Eustache on Montreal’s North Shore.

The city is part …