PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon told some 500 party members that Quebecers have one 'ultimate' chance to secure their language and culture.
RELATED - Quebec would not only survive as its own country, it would become one of the wealthiest in the world. That's according to a hypothetical budget released by the Parti Québécois on Monday. It uses the province's current financial situation to project what the province's budget could look like if it were to separate from Canada in three years. Global's Franca Mignacca reports.
“One thing is certain,” he said. “Our moment will arrive sooner than we think, meaning not at some long-term idealized date, but in a few years — before the end of the decade.The 47-year-old leader has driven renewed focus on sovereignty since he took the helm in 2020 after the party’s worst electoral showing in nearly 50 years. But his spot atop the polls in recent months lent a new edge to this weekend’s pledge of a referendum before 2030.
Interim Liberal Leader Marc Tanguay deemed his rival the PQ’s “most radical leader” and accused him of stoking fear to push independence. At other points, the speech hearkened back to refrains familiar to earlier generations, citing a duty to “emerge from our defeatism.”
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