Signs of opposition to the Couillard government are omnipresent in Quebec. Police officers in garish combat pants. Firefighters painting their fire trucks black in protest. As many as 200,000 Quebecers demonstrated across the province against an austerity agenda designed to reduce the province’s huge deficit: the cost of daycare for higher-income families will rise to […]
The Parti Québécois (PQ) lost the Quebec election this past April largely because Philippe Couillard cast his Liberals in the role of blocking PQ plans for another referendum on Quebec sovereignty. Yet, inspired by the referendum in September on Scotland’s independence, contenders for the PQ leadership saw a door opening to revive support for their […]
Philippe Couillard became Quebec’s Liberal premier this past April on a promise to deal with les vraies affaires – the real issues. Couillard won after the Parti Québécois (PQ) government called an early election, seeking to press ahead with toughening Quebec’s language laws and adopting the PQ’s “charter of Quebec values.” Couillard dismissed the PQ […]
The new Quebec finance minister says he wants to create hope. But the coming deficit-reduction measures are going to hurt
Three years in politics is a long time, as PQ premier Pauline Marois is demonstrating with her popularity rising in the polls
The minority PQ faces a tough spring. But despite the poor economy, its incumbent status may win it the next election
There’s support for the Charter of Quebec Values, but it hasn’t translated into additional support for the struggling PQ government
The PQ is stirring cultural controversy, despite its minority position
The PQ's Marois is scaling back her ambitions - for now - rather than risk more political turbulence
The PQ appears intent on bringing back the nationalist agenda