PQ budget reflects an alternate reality

The Parti Québécois’ separatist financial plan doesn’t seem to recognize that an independent Quebec would be small, impoverished, and barely viable.

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon released his ‘Year 1’ budget for a sovereign Quebec on Oct. 23, but doesn’t seem to understand the anger in what would remain of Canada at breaking up this country, writes Andrew Caddell. Screenshot courtesy of TVA News

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

November 8, 2023

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—You’d have thought Paul St-Pierre Plamondon might know to just leave things well alone. The leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), fresh off a landslide byelection win over the governing Coalition Avenir Québec in Québec City, was riding high. But no so...

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