{"id":323499,"date":"2025-12-03T21:46:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323499\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:46:05","slug":"why-quebec-separatism-is-worrying-bond-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323499\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Quebec Separatism Is Worrying Bond Investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/US:CN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">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<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The political engine of the movement to separate from Canada is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/parti-quebecois\" title=\"Link: Parti Quebecois entry in Canadian Encyclopedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Parti Quebecois<\/a>, co-founded in 1968 by journalist and politician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Rene-Levesque\" title=\"Britannica entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3244,45,49,48,7897,5427,3411,295,7592,893,143204,714,27103,906,66,136582],"class_list":{"0":"post-323499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-currency","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-environment","16":"tag-explainer","17":"tag-government","18":"tag-leger-marketing","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-public-opinion","21":"tag-quebec","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-st-pierre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}