It’s Going to Be a Wild Year in Quebec Politics. We’re on It

When we launched our regional bureaus last year, it was part of a broader effort to deepen our coverage of the most consequential stories unfolding across the country and to strengthen the role of local reporting in our national conversation.

We began with three bureaus. This year, we are expanding again—and we are especially pleased to announce the launch of our Quebec desk. The timing could not be more important. With a provincial election scheduled for October 2026, we will be paying close attention to the political, social, and economic forces shaping the province over the next year.

Today, we mark that expansion with two major features.

First, we are proud to collaborate with 338Canada and Pallas Data on a new province-wide poll examining Quebecers’ current voting intentions, their views of party leaders, and public attitudes toward Quebec sovereignty and the possibility of a future referendum. We are publishing the full poll today, alongside the first analysis of the results by contributing writer Philippe Fournier, founder of 338Canada.

Second, we introduce our new Quebec correspondent, Caitlin Walsh Miller, with a deeply reported investigation into the implosion of the Quebec Liberal Party—a story of resignations, expulsions, internal conflict, scandal, and now a criminal investigation.

Walsh Miller will build on the central role that contributing writers Toula Drimonis and Sheima Benembarek have already played in our Quebec coverage.

This is exactly the kind of ambitious, sustained regional reporting we set out to build.

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