{"id":891194,"date":"2026-09-11T01:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891194\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:56:17","slug":"melancon-stability-trumps-sovereignty-in-reshaped-quebec-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/891194\/","title":{"rendered":"Melan\u00e7on: Stability trumps sovereignty in reshaped Quebec election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a few weeks ago, Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was in good spirits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His party was way ahead in the polls, on its way to winning a majority government on Oct. 5, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/actualites\/politique\/2026-01-30\/rentree-parlementaire\/le-pq-se-definit-comme-le-gouvernement-en-attente.php?sharing=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">self-proclaimed \u201cpremier-in-waiting\u201d<\/a> seemed determined to hold a third referendum on sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then came Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs \u2014 all of a sudden, the game had changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a few weeks ago, Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was in good spirits. His party was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":891195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-891194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891194","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=891194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}