To the new PQ leader: Good luck.
Jean-François Lisée takes over the Parti Québécois at a time when it seems the party has nowhere to go but down
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Parti Québécois
The PQ’s biggest threat? Itself.
As the Parti Québécois looks for a new leader, even long-time separatists are wary of independence talk
Why the PQ isn’t so eager to celebrate the Brexit vote
The Parti Quebecois were thrilled by Scotland’s referendum, even though it failed. So why won’t Britain’s successful Leave vote play for the party?
The PQ’s cycle of self-destruction is terrible for Quebec
The PQ seems less an opposition party than part and parcel of the Liberal Party’s re-election strategy
Pierre Karl Péladeau: A man of brash impulses gives in to another
Pierre Karl Péladeau exits politics just as he arrived: hastily. Martin Patriquin on the former Parti Québécois leader’s surprise resignation
PKP: Farewell to the PQ’s last-chance man
Paul Wells on Pierre Karl Péladeau’s historically short, ill-suited leadership of the Parti Québécois, and what comes next
Why a former PQ minister shouldn’t scapegoat Quebec’s English voters
Yes, the Quebec Liberal party is a source of endless frustration. But the latest accusations blaming English voters are absurd.
The PQ grows another propaganda arm
A new research institute will ’show the advantages of independence’. It’s hard to see what it could possibly add to the old argument.
Pierre Karl Péladeau won’t be a Parti Québécois saviour
Pierre Karl Péladeau is not going to ignite the PQ. He is about to fall into some familiar political traps.
For the Parti Québécois, bad habit dies hard
Why the PQ has re-embraced its troublesome, vote-losing ’values charter’