“…According to Raynauld et al, Quebec's Maple Spring "can be viewed as one of the first grassroots-intensive political movements in Canada where social media played an instrumental role" (2016: 23). After several months of social conflict, the outgoing Liberal government, having failed to maintain its framing of the crisis (Giasson and Dubois, 2018), launched the electoral campaign on August 1st for a September 4th ballot. 1 In preparation for the election, the LPQ, which had been virtually absent from social media prior to 2008, built its Web 2.0 presence throughout the course of its last mandate, asking members of its parliamentary caucus, its ministers and its party officials to create Facebook and Twitter accounts in order to engage directly with Internet users.…”