{"id":919243,"date":"2026-10-03T16:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919243\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T16:08:13","slug":"breaking-up-quebec-and-canada-heres-where-the-parties-stand-on-the-question-of-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/919243\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking up Quebec and Canada? Here&#8217;s where the parties stand on the question of sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The heads of all five of the leading parties in this Quebec election campaign say they believe Quebec needs more power and say over its destiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says the only way to be masters of our destiny is by becoming a sovereign country as soon as possible. He promises to hold a referendum on the issue, although not until 2029 or 2030, after Trump\u2019s presidency ends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qu\u00e9bec solidaire\u2019s Ruba Ghazal says Quebecers will be convinced to vote for separation eventually, after they are properly consulted on a new and inclusive Quebec constitution that will include protections for Indigenous Peoples, anglophones and new immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The heads of all five of the leading parties in this Quebec election campaign say they believe Quebec&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,120789,66],"class_list":["post-919243","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\/919243","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=919243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}