Top Results For: CAQ Leader Francois Legault

A new Quebec election campaign is beginning with a slate of new leaders facing serious issues including resurgent referendum conversations and U.S. trade threats.

Charles Rousseau says he’s always believed in Quebec independence but it won’t be his top priority at the ballot box come Oct. 5, when the province chooses its next government.

Premier Christine Fréchette met with the lieutenant-governor Thursday morning to dissolve the National Assembly, officially triggering a 39-day election period.

With weeks to go before Quebec's election campaign, Liberal Leader Charles Milliard unveiled his economic vision centred on stronger ties within Canada and new trade partnerships.

Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette defended her growing list of spending promises after the province’s finance minister warned she could exceed the government’s allocated funding.

Quebec's legislature is back in session May 5, and new Premier Christine Fréchette has five weeks to push through her political agenda before the summer break.

Video from the event shows protesters using a guillotine to cut the head off figure of Minister Jean Boulet.

After winning the CAQ leadership race Fréchette spent just over a week before introducing the senior members of the team she is expected to lead into a fall general election.

New Premier Christine Fréchette and the Fédération des médecins spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) made the announcement Monday afternoon.

In a speech at the legislature Wednesday, Fréchette promised to focus on growing Quebec's economy and to govern as a nationalist. 

The CAQ has chosen Christine Frechette as the new party leader, making her the first female party leader, and second-ever female premier of Quebec.

Polling aggregator Qc125 predicts the CAQ, which Legault had positioned as a right-leaning nationalist but federalist party, is on track to win zero seats on Oct. 5.

Quebecers will find out Sunday who will become their next premier after the Coalition Avenir Québec counts the votes in a race to replace the only leader the party has ever had.

The cabinet of outgoing Premier Francois Legault says the national assembly will return with a new session — and new premier — on May 5.

Christine Fréchette has the support of 16 cabinet ministers, including the current finance, immigration, public security, culture and environment ministers. 

François Legault, Air Transat's founder, got started in politics in 1998 under former Parti Québécois premier Lucien Bouchard and created the CAQ in 2011.

Carmant resigned in October amid widespread protest over proposed legislation to change how doctors are paid, including tying a part of their remuneration to performance targets.

The two candidates vying to replace François Legault as Coalition Avenir Québec leader and Quebec premier are meeting today in a second and final debate.

A former CAQ cabinet minister has joined Quebec’s Conservatives, giving the party its first seat in the legislature ahead of the October election.

Tensions flared as CAQ leadership rivals clashed over Quebec’s “third link” project in the first debate to replace Premier François Legault.