{"id":329019,"date":"2025-12-05T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329019\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:23:12","slug":"why-quebec-separatism-is-worrying-bond-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329019\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Quebec Separatism Is Worrying Bond Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Separatists in Quebec have never been to able win enough support to achieve their goal of turning Canada\u2019s second-most populous province into its own country. Yet their dream of independence endures. Now, with the separatist Parti Quebecois<\/a> leading in public opinion polls in the province and promising a new referendum on secession if it prevails in elections next October, the topic is back on the table. That\u2019s been enough to start worrying some bond investors.<\/p>\n

The political engine of the movement to separate from Canada is the Parti Quebecois<\/a>, co-founded in 1968 by journalist and politician Rene Levesque<\/a>, who would go on to become Quebec\u2019s premier. The movement emerged from a view that Canada\u2019s federation disadvantages its French-speaking minority, which lives predominantly in Quebec (population: 9 million), and that its cultural distinctiveness must be better protected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Separatists in Quebec have never been to able win enough support to achieve their goal of turning Canada\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,5471,99,2065,5304,13110,6485,75,2542,3786,184321,84,35320,2111,128,184320],"class_list":{"0":"post-329019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bonds","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-currency","14":"tag-debt","15":"tag-elections","16":"tag-environment","17":"tag-explainer","18":"tag-government","19":"tag-leger-marketing","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-public-opinion","22":"tag-quebec","23":"tag-science","24":"tag-st-pierre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}