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Mar 10, 2023 · Today it has three — including one in eastern Montreal held by party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon. Polls and projections leading to the 2022 election showed the PQ headed to a historic...
Politics. Opinion. Quebec’s sovereigntists are searching for a way to revive their cause. Is this it? Some of the sovereignty movement’s leading proponents believe they may have hit on a...
May 1, 2024 · The Quebec Liberal Party remains adrift without a leader and Québec solidaire still hasn’t been able to get out of large urban areas. Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum and the PQ with its more charismatic leader has been able to fill the empty space.
May 24, 2024 · The importance of identity in underpinning support for sovereignty will come as no surprise for those most familiar with the sovereignty movement or Quebec politics. But Canadian political leaders would do well to keep it in mind as we approach a federal election expected by October 2025.
Dec 3, 2020 · Plamondon was first elected with Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives in 1984 only to leave the party and form the Bloc Quebecois with leader Lucien Bouchard.
The History of the Quebec sovereignty movement covers various movements which sought to achieve political independence for Quebec, which has been a province of Canada since 1867. Quebec nationalism emerged in politics c. 1800. The terms sovereignty and sovereignism were introduced by the modern Quebec sovereignty movement which began during the ...
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The Bloc Québécois was founded in 1991 by Lucien Bouchard, who also became its first leader, in order to represent and advocate the Quebec sovereignty movement at the federal level in the Parliament of Canada.
