A great time to make Quebec independent
I know PSPP has a lot of supporters for the idea, but I can’t imagine a worse time for Quebec to secede from Canada and invite Trump to pick up the pieces. But with the CAQ crashing and the PQ set to return, we’re headed that way.
jeather 19:22 on 2026-01-17 Permalink
I don’t think there’s been a real change in support for separation, though.
GC 19:49 on 2026-01-17 Permalink
“failed to yield the necessary improvements in areas such as immigration and health” Do we really think that all the problems with our healthcare system are Ottawa’s fault, and that will magically get better if we separate?
Hamza 02:40 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
3rd time since 80 – they’ll lose harder than 95. you heard it here first.
Hamza 02:43 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
whatever happened to <> ?
Hamza 02:43 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
”winning conditions”
Annette 02:55 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
It’s funny how ‘populist movements’ make no actual demands of public consensus.
Tim S. 11:41 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
I am slightly worried about the lack of any federalist leadership in Quebec. Melanie Joly anyone?
Ian 21:10 on 2026-01-18 Permalink
Oh great, another failed mayoral candidate? Shades of Coderre, no thanks,.
Even if PSPP PSPP PSPP (cats come running) gets in there is no more appetite for separation now than there was in 95, as jeather & Hamza point out – probably even less. Mulcair was openly laughing about it on CJAD last week.
It’s a perfect opportunity for PSPP but even if he does get in, he’s going to be clutching a stiff rum and coke while bitterly ruminating on money and the ethnic vote before long. Hopefully he has the grace not to do so on camera.
Joey 06:40 on 2026-01-19 Permalink
I don’t disagree that the odds are against a successful referendum campaign, for all sorts of reasons. That said, the odds were stacked against Brexit and against Trump and on and on.
Margaret Black 07:50 on 2026-01-19 Permalink
I’m with Joey on this one.
Kate 12:24 on 2026-01-19 Permalink
A referendum campaign would be subject to unexpected political incidents from either side of the question, and Donald Trump makes the chances of random weird political incidents higher than they’ve ever been. He’d love to see Canada break up, so interference in our politics is also to be expected. I don’t think a Yes vote in this political climate is as unlikely as some people do.
Joey 13:34 on 2026-01-19 Permalink
So (a) Trump is crazy but more importantly unpredictable and (b) Trump has no issue weighing in out of the blue on some other country’s internal question regardless of his complete ignorance of any details and reporters love to ask him about random stuff in the news to elicit a crazy answer – what this means is that the odds of Trump weighing in on a referendum question during the campaign are pretty high. Then you add in (c) Quebecers hate Trump and you wonder if his engagement would actually change the result – if he came out for the no side (he seems to consider Carney one of ‘his guys’), would that not swing a lot of votes the other way? And if he came out for the yes side (Trump loves chaos, but he also loves things that destabilize democratic governments), presumably lots of undecided and soft yes voters might not want to be voting for his desired outcome.