{"id":927244,"date":"2026-10-10T02:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927244\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T02:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T02:28:09","slug":"mathieu-lacombe-kicked-out-of-the-caq-for-attending-parti-quebecois-victory-party-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927244\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathieu Lacombe kicked out of the CAQ for attending Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois victory party Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DRUMMONDVILLE \u2014 Outgoing Culture and Communications Minister Mathieu Lacombe has been expelled from the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec and cabinet for attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/quebec-elections\/analysis-parti-quebecois-paul-st-pierre-plamondon-quebec-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois victory party on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La Presse reported Friday that Lacombe, who is in favour of independence, turned up late Monday evening at <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/quebec-election-pq-parti-quebecois-minority-government-paul-st-pierre-plamondon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">l\u2019Espace St-Denis in Montreal<\/a> to party with the PQ. About 1,000 people were present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technically, the CAQ is still the government of Quebec because PQ premier-elect Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has not been sworn in and neither has the new cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRUMMONDVILLE \u2014 Outgoing Culture and Communications Minister Mathieu Lacombe has been expelled from the Coalition Avenir Qu\u00e9bec and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,218342,295,230663,120789,66],"class_list":["post-927244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coalition-avenir-quebec-caq","tag-environment","tag-parti-quebecois-pq","tag-quebec-elections","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927244","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=927244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}