Where is the PQ taking Quebec?

The PQ triumphed at a time when only 27 per cent of Quebecers favour secession, not much of a mandate for anything, let alone tearing Canada asunder.
Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon at a campaign event in Quebec's Côte-Nord region on Sept. 30, 2026.

TORONTO—“Nos institutions. Notre Langue. Nos Lois,” the motto of Etienne Parent’s influential newspaper Le Canadien two centuries ago, sums up the Parti Québécois’ raison d'être. In a February Hill Times

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