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Author: Maura Forrest
Publication Date: January 25, 2026 - 10:56
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Push for Quebec independence in focus at PQ convention
January 25, 2026
The campaign for an independent Quebec is beginning to take shape at a Parti Québécois convention this weekend, ahead of a provincial election that will likely be fought over the prospect of a third referendum.
Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon urged hundreds of party members assembled Friday evening in St-Hyacinthe, a small city east of Montreal, not to give into “fear of the moment” as they plan for another vote on independence.
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I’ve been looking back at Brexit through the rear-view mirror of Alberta’s runaway referendum train. And I’ve been studying David Cameron, the British prime minister who called for the Brexit referendum in 2013. Ran a re-election campaign on the promise of one. Was handed a majority government in 2015 in part on the basis of that promise. Ran a campaign to remain in the European Union in 2016. Lost. And then resigned the next day.
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