{"id":902197,"date":"2026-09-19T22:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902197\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:56:12","slug":"libman-after-two-leaders-debates-whats-changed-in-the-quebec-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/902197\/","title":{"rendered":"Libman: After two leaders&#8217; debates, what&#8217;s changed in the Quebec election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each of Quebec\u2019s main party leaders entered this week\u2019s French language debates with a particular objective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u2019 Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, leading in the polls for years now, needed to reassure voters that despite his pledge to hold a referendum on sovereignty \u2014 a destabilizing adventure most Quebecers don\u2019t want \u2014 he can still govern effectively, then deal with the national question later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Christine Frech\u00e9tte\u2019s ball and chain is her party\u2019s record. She had to convince voters that a Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec under her leadership will function very differently than the same gang (which includes her) that ran the province so wastefully and inefficiently for eight years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Each of Quebec\u2019s main party leaders entered this week\u2019s French language debates with a particular objective. The Parti&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,218342,295,230663,120789,197017,66,1062],"class_list":["post-902197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq","tag-environment","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections","tag-quebec-liberal-party","tag-science","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902197","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=902197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}