The Parti Quebecois is partly to blame for the lack of support for sovereignty, according to the province's longest-serving legislature member, who believes his party has renounced its duty to promote independence.
Quebec continues to receive the overwhelming majority of asylum seekers in Canada, with 96 per cent of illegal crossings into the country so far in 2018 happening at its border with the United States, according to recent RCMP statistics.
Quebec's finance minister announced personal income tax cuts and increased funds for health and education on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, and immediately denied the moves had anything to do with next year's provincial election.
Calling it a North American first, the Quebec government passed legislation on Wed., Oct. 18, 2017, forbidding anyone from receiving or giving a public service with their face covered.
Mosher's cartoon in the English-language Montreal Gazette reflected the fears of anglophones, many of whom assumed the worst: that Quebec would soon be leaving Canada.
Projects to protect land in Quebec are too often blocked because of misleading economic claims, according to Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s Quebec chapter.