So long and good riddance to the PQ
On March 11, Catherine Fournier, MNA for the Marie-Victorin district in Longueuil left the Parti Quebecois (PQ) caucus to sit as an independent. The 26-year-old, who had been elected to the National Assembly in a December 2016 by-election, took several shots at her former bosses as she left.
“By losing so often, the party has become a losing organization,” Fournier is quoted as saying in the Montreal Gazette. “It has lost much of its pertinence. Quebecers say to themselves, ‘Why vote for a party unable to achieve the project it set out to complete?’”
FREE ACCESS FOR EQUITY SUBSCRIBERS
This article is available free to all subscribers to The Equity. If you are a subscriber, please enter your email address and password below.
SET UP YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNT
If you are a subscriber but have not yet set up your online account, please contact Liz Draper at liz@theequity.ca to do so.
HOW TO BECOME A SUBSCRIBER
To become a subscriber to The Equity, please use our Subscribe page or contact liz@theequity.ca