{"id":908847,"date":"2026-09-25T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908847\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T07:22:09","slug":"pq-leader-questions-timing-of-scathing-report-into-partys-complaints-against-psychiatrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/908847\/","title":{"rendered":"PQ leader questions timing of scathing report into party&#8217;s complaints against psychiatrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon questioned Thursday the timing of <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/provincial-politics\/pqs-harassing-complaints-against-psychiatrist-broke-international-law-amnesty-report-says\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International\u2019s scathing report<\/a> that found members of the party broke international human rights laws by filing a series of complaints against a psychiatrist over her social media posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report, made public Wednesday, said PQ general manager G\u00e9nif\u00e8re Legrand, current candidates Isabelle Blais and Pierre-Luc Brillant, and former PQ leader Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e\u2019s complaints with Quebec\u2019s order of physicians \u201cmaintain a harrasing\u201d effect on Dr. Marie-\u00c8ve Cotton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report also said the complaints \u201crepresent a restriction on her ability to exercise her rights to political expression, academic freedom, and the right to human rights defence, as guaranteed by international law.\u201d Amnesty International had been looking into Cotton\u2019s case for about a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon questioned Thursday the timing of Amnesty International\u2019s scathing report that found members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,92296,230663,120789,66],"class_list":["post-908847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-news-videos","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908847","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=908847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}