CAQ’s agenda could challenge federal parties

Neither Justin Trudeau’s Liberals nor his Conservative and New Democrat rivals have much appetite for seeing the federal campaign become an extension of Quebec’s latest existential debate.

Little drama attended the delivery by Quebec Premier François Legault of his Coalition Avenir Québec government’s opening speech on Nov. 28. The next Quebec/Canada chapter is to be written by federalists at both the provincial and federal levels.Photograph courtesy of Instagram

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

December 3, 2018

For the first time in 42 years, the curtain rose on the opening speech of a new party governing in Quebec’s National Assembly on Nov. 28. The circumstances could not have been more different than in 1976. Back then, the election of a Parti Québécois government had sent shock waves across the co...

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