{"id":140606,"date":"2025-09-13T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140606\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:45:25","slug":"is-it-over-for-quebecs-francois-legault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/140606\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it over for Quebec’s Fran\u00e7ois Legault?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Front Burner<\/a><\/p>\n

Things don\u2019t look good for Quebec premier Francois Legault and his party. Will he turn it around or will his separatist rivals stage a comeback?<\/p>\n

CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Sep 08, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: September 9<\/p>\n

\"QuebecQuebec Premier Francois Legault at a news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 at the legislature in Quebec City. Legault is calling on the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to provide a public explanation regarding allegations of sexual abuse, torture and hazing detailed in a decision by an Ontario judge. (Jacques Boissinot\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

Front BurnerIs it over for Quebec\u2019s Fran\u00e7ois Legault?<\/p>\n

Quebec has introduced a new bill that would ban prayer in public spaces. It’s the latest in a series of recent moves by the province to reinforce Quebec’s secularist values. It comes as\u00a0 Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault is embroiled in a spending scandal and polls that show he’s the least popular provincial leader in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Will falling back on Quebec values and stoking anti-immigrant sentiment work in his favour? And if Legault and the Coalition Avenir Quebec are on the outs, is it time for the Parti Quebecois and the separatist movement to make a comeback?<\/p>\n

Martin Patriquin, Quebec correspondent for The Logic, takes us through the province’s state of affairs.<\/p>\n

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