{"id":950711,"date":"2026-10-29T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950711\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:08:10","slug":"montreals-future-under-a-new-premier-w-taylor-c-noakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950711\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s future under a new premier w\/ Taylor C. Noakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is back in power with 60 seats, having gained one more after a recount in Vachon on Montr\u00e9al\u2019s South Shore. But its minority government will need support from other parties to pass legislation and budgets. What should Montr\u00e9alers expect?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist and public historian Taylor C. Noakes joins Local 514\u2019s Kalden Rangdr\u00f6l Dhatsenpa to discuss the CAQ\u2019s decline, the PQ\u2019s return and what the new government could mean for Montr\u00e9al, particularly its immigrant and anglophone communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noakes examines the party\u2019s focus on language and national identity, questioning what its priorities offer a city struggling with housing costs, underfunded transit and aging infrastructure. The discussion also considers the prospects for another sovereignty referendum, Alberta\u2019s referendum and the influence of American politics on Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s independence movement.<br \/>Running through the conversation is a question of political power: how much say does Montr\u00e9al have over its own future? As the PQ pursues greater independence for Qu\u00e9bec, Noakes argues for greater autonomy for Montr\u00e9al\u2014and asks who might lead that fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that right now we do not have political leadership to match the ambition of the people of Montreal.\u201d<br \/>Narrowing that gap, he argues, will take nothing short of \u201ca political rebirth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois is back in power with 60 seats, having gained one more after a recount in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-950711","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\/950711","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=950711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}