Unpublished Newswire

Quebec polls in recent years—decades, even—have consistently shown that if a referendum on sovereignty were held today, a clear majority of voters would vote against it. Is that certainty misleading? There are indications, after all, that the Parti Québécois’ rising popularity since 2023 coincided with renewed enthusiasm among independence supporters. Support for the PQ increased after its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, pledged, in 2023, to hold a third referendum on sovereignty at the same time as the governing Coalition Avenir Québec began to falter. Many CAQ supporters have...