The revival of the Parti Québécois and the question of independence

The Quebec Party, traditional defender of Quebec independence, was given up for dead by the media five years ago. However, according to polls, he could win an absolute majority of seats in the Quebec Legislative Assembly on October 5. And its leader, Paul Saint-Pierre Plamondon, has pledged, if he comes to power, to organize a new referendum on independence during his mandate. Something is happening in Quebec.

Explored by Jacques Cartier, colonized by Samuel de Champlain, Canada was first called New France. Its history lasts a century and a half and ends with the English conquest (1759-1760), recognized by France in the Treaty of Paris (1763). Eighty thousand French people from Canada were then abandoned by Louis XV and their links with the mother country severed. Now subjects of the British crown, French Canadians can only count on themselves. A colonial situation arises, with French Canadians…