Parti Québécois

/ parti /

noun

1. PQ. (in Canada) a political party in Quebec, formed in 1968 and originally advocating the separation of Quebec from the rest of the country

Example Sentences

Current Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon responded to Grande’s hiring this week with a Twitter thread expressing his discontentment with the club’s decision.

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Members of the sovereigntist Québec solidaire and Parti Québécois parties swore they wouldn’t swear an oath to Charles when the legislature reconvened.

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The “absurdity” of the ritual “had gone on long enough,” Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said.

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The 11 Québec solidaire holdouts later swore the oath behind closed doors, but the three Parti Québécois lawmakers did not.

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As early as 1970, members of the sovereigntist Parti Quebecois, a separatist provincial political party in Quebec, had openly opposed it.

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