What a PQ government means for the Outaouais<\/p>\n
The historically Liberal-leaning west Quebec ridings of Pontiac, Hull, Gatineau, Chapleau and Papineau saw a return to their roots this evening, with the Liberals projected to take four out of the five seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a rejection of the CAQ government voters took a chance on in 2022 in order to steer clear of the sovereignist Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That changed tonight as well, with the PQ projected to take the Papineau seat, which hasn\u2019t happened since 1976.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Liberal candidates said they plan to focus on issues around health care and education their region has faced for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapleau’s projected MNA-elect Michel Langevin told reporters he was eager to get to work, but would have to figure out how to do that within a PQ government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
PQ candidate Isabelle Millette, who was met with cheers in a Papineau bar after being declared the projected winner of her riding, said she looks forward to working with the Liberal party.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir priorities are similar to ours,\u201d she said. \u201cRepresenting the Outaouais in the National Assembly. To make sure we\u2019re not forgotten, we\u2019re not abandoned. We are here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What a PQ government means for the Outaouais The historically Liberal-leaning west Quebec ridings of Pontiac, Hull, Gatineau,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-922566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922566","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=922566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}