{"id":483276,"date":"2026-02-18T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483276\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:41:11","slug":"quebec-solidaire-plans-to-bend-its-own-gender-rules-to-accommodate-montreal-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/483276\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9bec solidaire plans to bend its own gender rules to accommodate Montreal candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qu\u00e9bec solidaire (QS) plans to bend its own rules to allow a \u201cleft-wing sovereignty supporter\u201d to run in Gouin in the upcoming provincial elections.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldemontreal.com\/2026\/02\/17\/boulerice-veut-etre-candidat-qs-mais-il-na-pas-le-bon-sexe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Journal de Montr\u00e9al<\/a> reported on Tuesday that Alexandre Boulerice, the federal NDP MP for Rosemont\u2014La Petite-Patrie, would like to run with QS in the riding currently held by the party\u2019s former spokesperson, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>However, QS had decided that women or non-binary candidates will be required to run in currently won ridings in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be an exception for Gouin,\u201d said QS spokesperson Ruba Ghazal at a press briefing on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be up to our members to decide whether to accept this exception. I am confident that we will find a way forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vote will take place on Saturday during a closed-door party council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Ghazal did not want to confirm that this exception was specifically for Boulerice. She also assured that this would be the only exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9bec solidaire (QS) plans to bend its own rules to allow a \u201cleft-wing sovereignty supporter\u201d to run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-483276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483276","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=483276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}