In 1995, Quebecers came within a whisker of becoming an independent nation. Nearly 25 years later, numerous signals suggest a resurgence of the sovereignist movement in Quebec.
On the federal side, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals systematically oppose all requests from François Legault’s government, whose nationalism is crumbling in the face of the Liberals’ centralizing federalism, the failure of negotiations on health transfers constituting the most important factor. convincing. As for Pierre Poilievre’s conservatives, their right-wing position closes the door to any expansionist ambition in Quebec.
For his part, here in Quebec, the leader of the Parti Québécois (PQ), Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (PSPP), saw the latest poll put him at the head of the pack with a good lead over François Legault. A performance attributed, in my opinion, largely to the transparency he demonstrated with regard to the independence of Quebec from the last electoral campaign, and which continued in his firm position of abandoning the swearing-in deputies towards King Charles III.
Consequently, almost two years before the next electoral campaign, everything suggests that the federalist/sovereignist debate will regain its place on the Quebec political scene. The revival of the sovereignist option relaunched by PSPP is bearing fruit with the Quebec electorate. In a word, barring a monumental blunder on the part of the PQ, the planets are aligned for a social debate on the holding of a referendum on the sovereignty of Quebec.
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