Legault’s ‘third way’ Quebec nationalism down but not out after resignation

Near the height of François Legault’s popularity in the early 2020s, it was often said that Quebec had turned the page on its stale sovereignty debate.

The Premier’s vaunted “third way” – a robust Quebec nationalism that evinced little affection for the rest of Canada but scorned independence as impractical – seemed like a long-term path to success for the party he founded, the Coalition Avenir Québec.