{"id":909361,"date":"2026-09-25T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909361\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:28:33","slug":"eric-girard-attacks-pqs-independence-plan-with-brexit-warning-for-quebecs-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909361\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Girard attacks PQ\u2019s independence plan with Brexit warning for Quebec\u2019s economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard invoked the cost of Brexit on Thursday to challenge the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u2019s case for independence, warning separation would damage Quebec\u2019s economy and create \u201ca climate of uncertainty\u201d for businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicolas Marceau, a former PQ finance minister and member of the party\u2019s economic team, argued independence would simplify business by eliminating overlapping federal and provincial departments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf we want to reduce bureaucracy, it\u2019s hard to find a simpler way than Quebec independence,\u201d he said, adding Quebec would be \u201cthe richest country ever born in human history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard invoked the cost of Brexit on Thursday to challenge the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois\u2019s case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,120789,66],"class_list":["post-909361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-quebec-elections","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909361","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=909361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}