Parti Québécois leader and premier-designate
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Will lead a minority government
The Parti Québécois won 59 seats in Quebec's National Assembly on Monday night, five short of a majority, ending a 12-year stretch out of power. The pro-independence party formed a minority government with just 28% of the popular vote, the smallest share ever to produce a government in Quebec history.
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Won Quebec's October 5 election; has said he won't scrap the Churchill Falls deal but will conduct a due diligence review
For 57 years, Newfoundland and Labrador sold power from one of the world's largest hydro plants to Quebec for about 0.2 cents a kilowatt-hour. Quebec resold much of it for roughly 50 times that. On August 17, 2026, the two provinces signed a framework to end that arrangement.
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