Quebec Premier Francois Legault resigned Wednesday after seven years in power, saying it was for “the good of Quebec.” It’s been a wild ride for Legault. A former airline executive, he clinched a majority government in 2018 at the head of a new party he had founded himself, Coalition Avenir Québec. Four years later he won again, securing a landslide result that utterly blew out Quebec’s two usual contenders for power; both the Quebec Liberals and the Parti Québécois were handed their worst-ever results. But for the last couple of years, Legault has been rapidly plumbing the depths of just how unpopular a Quebec government could become; some polls had the CAQ winning a distant fourth place in the next general election. As to why he’s leaving, a good guess is that he’s trying to do like former prime minister Justin Trudeau: Leave power at the precise moment when seemingly everyone hates him, and then hope a successor can somehow pull it together.