{"id":926461,"date":"2026-10-09T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926461\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:22:20","slug":"melancon-the-pqs-bumpy-road-to-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926461\/","title":{"rendered":"Melan\u00e7on: The PQ&#8217;s bumpy road to sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to ask Quebecers the question that makes a people a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sept. 12, 1994. A victorious Jacques Parizeau stands proudly at the podium as his troops celebrate their newly elected premier. Just over a year later, Quebecers would be called to the polls to decide whether Quebec should become a country. The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in more than 32 years, Quebec is governed by a premier who has clearly committed to holding a referendum on sovereignty as soon as possible. But Parizeau had something in 1994 that Paul St-Pierre Plamondon didn\u2019t get on Monday: a majority government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are going to ask Quebecers the question that makes a people a country.\u201d Sept. 12, 1994. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,230663,120789,1062],"class_list":["post-926461","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","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926461","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=926461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}