Ex-Bloc MPs name spokesperson, no leader

On Monday beleaguered Bloc leader Martine Ouellet agreed to put her leadership to a confidence vote at a mid-April annual general meeting.

Bloc Québécois leader Martine Ouellet said she would put her leadership to a confidence vote, but one ex-Bloc MP suggested the 50 per cent plus one threshold the party has put forward is too low to show true support. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

March 21, 2018

The breakaway group of seven Bloc Québécois MPs says it has a spokesperson, but no formal leader, and isn’t ready to start talking about forming a new party—for now it plans to continue working from the Bloc platform on which its members were elected.

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