‘Anglos don’t fear the PQ anymore’: St-Pierre Plamondon reaches out to Anglo Quebecers in open letter
Posted August 11, 2026 10:54 am.
Last Updated August 11, 2026 1:33 pm.
Parti Québécois (PQ) Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says Anglo Quebecers are ready to back his party in the upcoming elections after eight years of the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) administration.
In an open letter to the English-speaking community published Tuesday, St-Pierre Plamondon said that the Anglophone voters and the French-speaking population shared the same concerns about what he termed as “the worst regression in quality of life in Quebec’s recent history.”
The PQ leader said English-speaking Quebecers agreed with his assessment that the CAQ government is to blame for the housing, affordability and health-care crisis as well as scandals like Northvolt and SAAQclic. He also attributed some of the blame to immigration policy at the federal level.
“Quebecers were promised a wind of ‘change’ by the CAQ. Instead, what we have witnessed is not even the status quo — it is decline,” he wrote. “We cannot blame citizens for losing faith in the state when, year after year, they pay more and receive less.”
Calling the provincial elections scheduled for Oct. 5 “of critical importance for our shared future,” St-Pierre Plamondon said that the “Anglos don’t fear the PQ anymore” and were willing to give the party a chance in the October elections without any mention of his pledge to hold a referendum if elected.
“Public discourse has too often encouraged the mistaken belief that the concerns of French-speaking and English-speaking Quebecers are fundamentally at odds,” he wrote. “Nothing could be further from the truth. We are all in the same boat.”
St-Pierre Plamondon’s outreach to the English-speaking community came as new voter intention poll released Tuesday showed that nearly half of Quebecers have yet to make a final decision on which party they will be supporting in the fall elections.
According to a Léger poll conducted between Aug. 7-9, PQ leads the vote share with the support 30 per cent of those surveyed. The Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) and the CAQ saw slight declines in their support with with 24 per cent and 20 per cent respectively.
Despite leading the overall poll, PQ was behind the PLQ among voters aged 18-34 and was in third place among non-francophone votes and those in the Greater Montreal region.
Montreal City Councillor Leslie Roberts, responding to the PQ leader with an open letter of his own, said that while St-Pierre Plamondon’s letter acknowledged that the economic concerns are shared by Quebecers, including the minority communities, there was still a trust gap.
“Where our paths diverge is not over whether Quebec can be governed better,” he wrote. “It is over trust.”
Roberts added that the PQ had repeatedly promised to protect the rights of English-speaking Quebecers for decades.
“Yet our lived experience has often been one of watching rights debated, reduced or reinterpreted depending on the political moment — most recently through more restrictive language laws from the governing Coalition Avenir Québec.”
Roberts said for many Anglo Quebecers remained skeptical of outreach from separatist leaders.
