Blanchet assures that the Bloc Québécois will back Parti Québécois
Posted September 8, 2025 9:31 pm.
Last Updated September 8, 2025 10:01 pm.
Bloc Québécois leader Yves François Blanchet has assured that his team of MPs will work closely with the Parti Québécois (PQ) in the coming months to ensure victory for the sovereigntist party in the 2026 Quebec election.
Relations between Blanchet and his PQ counterpart, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, have been visibly tense in recent months, but in a long speech delivered to party members and MPs on Monday evening, the Bloc leader attempted to dispel any apparent quarrel between the two sister parties.
“I say it again and again that the choices, strategies, and agenda of the country in Quebec City, as well as the approach to the referendum, are the exclusive prerogative of the Parti Québécois and the leader of the Parti Québécois,” he said.
“I will support you, and we will support your legitimate choices.”
Blanchet was addressing, among others, Jean-Talon PQ MNA Pascal Paradis, who was in the room and introduced the Bloc leader for his speech.
“If you’ll excuse my vernacular: ‘crisse,’ is that clear?” he added with a laugh.
Blanchet ended his speech by saying that one of the Bloc Québécois’ (BQ) priorities would be to “send a sovereigntist government to Quebec City.”
“We will be everywhere on the ground, and on that ground, we will grow a country,” he said to loud applause.
In a press scrum before the event, Paradis assured that “collaboration is excellent” between the two parties.
“We saw it in Arthabaska, where many BQ party workers and MPs came to give us a hand,” he said. “We talk to each other constantly.”
When asked why the PQ leader was absent from the event, Paradis explained that he was present as the member for Jean-Talon, in Quebec City, the area where the caucus meeting was taking place.
“I was invited, and I’m very happy to be here,” he said before leaving for the hall.
Earlier in the day, Blanchet also referred to the upcoming pre-election year in Quebec City.
“In exactly one year, we will be campaigning to elect an independent majority government in Quebec City,” he said in the morning, before the caucus meeting began.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
