Gilles Duceppe is visiting some remote areas of northwestern Quebec, where news of the election campaign seems to move at a slower pace than in most places.

This morning, Duceppe had a quick breakfast with his election team in a restaurant in Chibougamau, a small mining and fishing town 700 kilometres north of Montreal, and which is surrounded by hundreds of kilometres of pristine lakes and forest.

A reporter sitting at a nearby table asked a man who lives in the community and was quietly enjoying a plate of eggs and toast with his Montreal tabloid, "Is that today's paper? Where did you get it?"

The man looked up and said, "Oh no, this is yesterday's. The paper doesn't usually arrive until about 3 p.m. around here."

— Tim Duboyce