Ruba Ghazal wants its members to endorse its pro-worker stance
Posted June 8, 2025 12:09 pm.
The parliamentary leader of Québec solidaire (QS), Ruba Ghazal, is hoping to have her pro-worker stance endorsed by her members at the party’s National Council meeting this weekend.
“We need to prioritise and then have a major element and that is workers. That doesn’t mean we’re putting everything else aside, far from it,” she explained in an interview with The Canadian Press.
She insists that this is not a vote of confidence in her leadership. “It’s the members who decide. So we shouldn’t assume anything, but I don’t have that fear,” says Ghazal.
After the resignation of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois as party spokesperson and a disastrous score in the Terrebonne by-election last March, Ghazal said that QS needed to rediscover its “North Star.”
Since then, she has been trying to focus more on defending workers.
“Especially since we’re facing a CAQ government that’s anti-labour. We’ve seen this with the increase in labour disputes in the public sector,” says Ghazal.
QS also denounced Bill 89, which was passed last week and aims to limit the right to strike in certain circumstances.
According to interim male co-spokesperson Guillaume Cliche-Rivard, the “Manifesto for a Québec solidaire of its workers” that will be submitted to members is “also a promise of action on the ground.”
“We intend to be much closer to workers, in the field, to visit their workplaces and meet them,” he explains.
QS is suffering in the polls and is hoping that this new direction will move the needle in its favour. A Léger poll published in May put QS at just 10 per cent of voting intentions.
The Qc125 poll aggregator projects only six seats for the political party. QS currently has 12 members in the National Assembly.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
