{"id":920721,"date":"2026-10-04T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920721\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T21:10:10","slug":"u-s-consuls-leaked-text-message-reveals-scheduled-meeting-with-pq-leader-was-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920721\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. consul&#8217;s leaked text message reveals scheduled meeting with PQ leader was cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a text from a consul official obtained by The Gazette, Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon had scheduled a meeting with the U.S. State Department in Washington in early March, though the meeting was ultimately cancelled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cJust to confirm, PSPP did not\/not go to Washington this week. No word on our part if\/when it may be rescheduled,\u201d Robert Sanders, then U.S. consul general in Montreal, texted a Quebec public official on March 3.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Untitled-design-2.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of a text message reading: Just to confirm, PSPP did not\/not go to Washington this week. No word on our part if\/when it may be rescheduled.\" class=\"wp-image-100299720\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The text, one of several obtained by The Gazette, sheds more light on the extent of the sovereignist party\u2019s plans to travel to Washington for a meeting with the U.S. State Department in the spring. As <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/pq-sought-meeting-with-u-s-officials-in-washington-state-department-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Gazette reported on Saturday<\/a>, the State Department undertook the courtesy of informing its consulates Quebec that the PQ was planning a trip to Washington and had requested a meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to a text from a consul official obtained by The Gazette, Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,230663,120789],"class_list":["post-920721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920721","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=920721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}