{"id":931928,"date":"2026-10-13T21:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T21:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:34:09","slug":"analysis-pqs-promises-wont-stop-quebecs-economic-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/931928\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: PQ&#8217;s promises won&#8217;t stop Quebec&#8217;s economic drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the new minority <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 government<\/a> prepares to settle in and winter approaches, a cold reality confronts Montreal and the rest of the province: Quebec is drifting economically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People know it. Both anecdotal and widespread polling evidence tell us that what Montrealers and other Quebecers need and want right now is not another battle over sovereignty (not now, nor after Donald Trump leaves office, because who knows what will come next?) but a return to economic growth and job creation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The disconnect between the political classes and the populace is glaring. Upon his victory last week, premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon stated \u201cthe Quebec we want to build for ourselves will be French-speaking\u201d (as if it were not already), \u201cmodern\u201d and \u201camong the world\u2019s greatest democracies.\u201d Nice rhetoric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the new minority Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government prepares to settle in and winter approaches, a cold reality confronts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":931929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-931928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931928","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=931928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}