{"id":954522,"date":"2026-11-01T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954522\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T16:24:11","slug":"three-federal-quebec-byelections-called-for-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954522\/","title":{"rendered":"Three federal Quebec byelections called for December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Mark Carney announced six byelections Sunday, with voters in three Quebec ridings, two Ontario ridings and one Saskatchewan riding set to head to polls Dec. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The byelection in Montreal\u2019s Laurier\u2014Sainte-Marie riding will replace longtime Liberal MP and former environment minister Steven Guilbeault, who <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/steven-guilbeault-formally-resigns-his-seat-in-house-of-commons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">stepped down in August over his opposition to Carney\u2019s environmental policies.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Rosemont\u2014La Petite-Patrie, also in Montreal, a weakened NDP will seek to keep control of the riding after its last Quebec MP <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/provincial-news\/provincial-politics\/alexandre-boulerice-ndp-quebec-solidaire-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">quit to run for provincial office.<\/a> Alexandre Boulerice, who represented the riding since 2011, is now Qu\u00e9bec solidaire\u2019s MNA in Gouin, which overlaps with his old federal riding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney announced six byelections Sunday, with voters in three Quebec ridings, two Ontario ridings and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-954522","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\/954522","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=954522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}